different between desk vs seatwork

English

Etymology

From Middle English deske, desque, from Medieval Latin desca, modified from Old Italian desco, from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, disc, discus, dish, and disk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?sk/

Noun

desk (plural desks)

1. A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
2. A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.
3. A department of a newspaper tasked with covering a particular geographical region or aspect of the news.

   the city desk

   the sports desk

4. Short for mixing desk.
   • 2009, Rick Snoman, Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys and Techniques (page 69)

     Each aux out is connected to an effects unit and the signal is then returned into the desk.

Hypernyms

• furniture

Coordinate terms

• chair

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: deasc
• ? Welsh: desg

Translations

Verb

desk (third-person singular simple present desks, present participle desking, simple past and past participle desked)

1. (transitive) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (transitive) To equip with a desk or desks.

Anagrams

• KEDs, deks, keds, sked

Middle English

Adjective

desk

1. Alternative form of dosk

English

Etymology

seat +? work

Noun

seatwork (uncountable)

1. (US) The schoolwork done by students sitting at their desks during schooltime.

See also

• chairwork