Desk vs Undesked - What's the difference?
desk | undesked |
A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
* , chapter=5
, title= 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.
Not having a desk; without a desk.
*2007 , Mehdi Khosrowpour et al.'', ''Web Technologies for Commerce and Services Online , Idea Group 2007, p. 215:
*:Also, a number of high-end hotels are improving customer service by experimenting with undesked staff who can check guests in in the lobby, parking lot, or conference room [...].
(journalism) Not having been looked at or sub-edited by a desk-based journalist.
*2009 , Siobhan Butterworth, ‘Open Door’, The Guardian , 16 Feb 2009:
*:I can only think of a small handful of journalists who blog direct to the web without being either desked or subbed first. We don't publish news stories undesked and although our journalists can publish pictures direct to blogs, they rarely do.
As a noun desk
is a table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use of writers and readers it often has a drawer or repository underneath.As a verb desk
is to shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.As an adjective undesked is
not having a desk; without a desk.desk
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(en noun) (wikipedia desk)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}