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Desked vs Dusked - What's the difference?

desked | dusked |

As verbs the difference between desked and dusked

is that desked is past tense of desk while dusked is past tense of dusk.

desked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (desk)

    • desk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia desk)
  • 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= 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.}}
  • 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.

    • Hypernyms

    * furniture

    Coordinate terms

    * chair

    Derived terms

    * cash desk * desk job * front desk * reception desk * Resolute desk

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

    • Anagrams

    * * 1000 English basic words

    dusked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dusk)

    • dusk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.
  • A darkish colour.
  • * Dryden
    • Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

    Synonyms

    * sunset * sundown * evenfall * smokefall * vespers

    Antonyms

    * dawn

    Hyponyms

    * gloaming * twilight

    See also

    *

    See also

    * crepuscular

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk
  • * , More Poems , XXXIII, lines 25-27
    • I see the air benighted
    And all the dusking dales,
    And lamps in England lighted,
  • To make dusk.
  • * Holland
    • After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
  • * Milton
    • A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.

    Anagrams

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