Desk
//dɛsk//
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Noun
Verb
The word "desk" can be used as noun and verb.
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Carlton House desk Governor Winthrop desk Resolute desk Winthrop desk al desko cash desk cashier's desk checkout desk city desk copy desk desk blotter desk caddy desk calendar desk chair desk check desk dictionary desk drawer desk drop desk fan desk job desk jockey desk killer desk lamp desk murderer desk organiser desk organizer desk pad desk pilot desk potato desk rage desk rejection desk sergeant desk tidy desk work deskband deskbook deskbound deskercise deskfast deskful deskie desklamp desklet desklike deskman deskmate deskphone deskscape deskside deskspace desktop deskward deskwork deskworker double desk fly a desk front desk front-desk headdesk help desk help-desk hobby desk hot desk hot-desk infodesk information desk key desk kneehole desk lap desk litany desk mixing desk music desk news desk newsdesk partners desk picture desk reception desk roll-top desk rolltop desk standing desk teacher's desk telephone desk writing desk
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Has Part
Has Property
Type Of (IsA)
Not Has Property
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above above chair area at office at school blotter books box bureau business case chair chair and chair table classroom classroom furniture classrooms computer computer furniture computer holder computer location computer on computer place computer sits computer stand computer table computers computers sit cubicle department drawer drawer set drawers draws equipment escritoire filing filing drawers flat flat surface flat top for computer for office for offices for student for study for studying for work for working for writing four four legs frame furnishing furniture furniture office hard hard surface holder holding holding computer holding computers holding things homework in classroom in classrooms in office in offices in rows in school in schools inside inside cubicle keeping keeping stuff lamp lectern legs like like table liturgical location long long table object of wood office office equipment office furnishing office furniture office space office surface office table office work office workplace offices on it papers paperwork pencils pens pens pencils place platform preach prop pulpit put put computer reader reading reading writing rectangle rectangular related related chair repository room rows school school furniture school object school seat school table schools seat seating secretary secretary works sermon service set sit sit at sits sitting sitting writing small small table solid solid top space square stand station stationary student student chair student furniture student sit student table students students workplace study study furniture study place study room study surface study table studying studying area studying table stuff surface table table chair table top teachers thing top treasure usually usually wooden what what you wood wood furniture wooden wooden furniture wooden table work work area work furniture work on work place work space work station work surface work table work top working working on working place working surface working table workplace workplace table works workstation wring wring table write write at write on writer writing writing at writing bureau writing furniture writing on writing place writing platform writing prop writing surface writing table writing work you sit
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computer use drafting filing make people think work place on putting computer on putting documents in drawers reading at sitting at sitting at in school spilling coffee over storing and working with papers storing computer supporting somputer system surface area to do paperwork typing on work work on work sitting down working write writing writing upon
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