different between desk vs workstation
desk
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)
- 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.
- 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.
- A department of a newspaper tasked with covering a particular geographical region or aspect of the news.
- the city desk
- the sports desk
- 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.
- 2009, Rick Snoman, Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys and Techniques (page 69)
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)
- (transitive) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (transitive) To equip with a desk or desks.
Anagrams
- KEDs, deks, keds, sked
Middle English
Adjective
desk
- Alternative form of dosk
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workstation
English
Etymology
From work +? station
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
workstation (plural workstations)
- a desktop computer, normally more powerful than a normal PC and often dedicated to a specific task, such as graphics
- an area, at a workplace, for a single worker
Synonyms
- (workplace): workstead
Translations
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English workstation.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?wo?ks.?tej.?õ/
Noun
workstation f (plural workstations)
- (computing) workstation (powerful desktop computer)
- Synonym: estação de trabalho
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