Longer vs Desk - What's the difference?
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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.
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, 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.
As nouns the difference between longer and desk
is that longer is one who longs or yearns for something while 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 an adjective longer
is comparative of long.As an adverb longer
is comparative of long.As a verb desk is
to shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.longer
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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.}}
