Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Desk \Desk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Desked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Desking.]
To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Desk \Desk\, n. [OE. deske, the same word as dish, disk. See
Dish, and cf. Disk.]
1. A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but
often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It
often has a drawer or repository underneath.
[1913 Webster]
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 (esp. in the
United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for
"the clerical profession."
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
desk
n 1: a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually
drawers or other compartments
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "desk":
agency, ambo, atelier, bar, barbershop, beauty parlor, beauty shop,
bench, board, buffet, butcher shop, company, concern, corporation,
counter, escritoire, establishment, facility, firm, house,
installation, institution, lectern, loft, organization, parlor,
pulpit, reading desk, rostrum, secretaire, secretary, shop, stand,
studio, sweatshop, table, work site, work space, workbench,
workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable,
writing table