different between dest vs desk

English

Noun

dest (plural dests)

1. Abbreviation of destination.

Anagrams

• ETDs, STED, STed, TEDs, Teds, estd, estd., sted, teds

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *jástah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *???ástas, from Proto-Indo-European *??óstos (“hand”), from *??es-. Cognate with Persian ???? (dast), Avestan ????????????????????? (zasta) and Sanskrit ???? (hasta).

Noun

dest m

1. hand

Welsh

Alternative forms

• daethost (literary)
• delest (colloquial)
• desest (colloquial)
• dethest (colloquial)
• doist (colloquial)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /d?sd/, [d?st]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /de?sd/, [de?st], /d?sd/, [d?st]

Verb

dest

1. (colloquial) second-person singular preterite of dod

Mutation

Zazaki

Etymology

Compare Persian ???? (dast)

Noun

dest ?

1. hand

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