desk tray

  • 1tray — [treı] n ↑glass, ↑bow tie, ↑tray [: Old English; Origin: trig, treg] 1.) a flat piece of plastic, metal, or wood, with raised edges, used for carrying things such as plates, food etc ▪ The waiter brought drinks on a tray. 2.) a flat open… …

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  • 2desk|work — «DEHSK WURK», noun. work done or to be done at a desk: »... deskwork galore, throwing bits of vaguely worded papers from tray to tray (Atlantic) …

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  • 3Desk — A writing desk. A desk is a furniture form and a class of table often used in a work or office setting for reading or writing on or using a computer. Desks often have one or more drawers to store office supplies and papers. Unlike a regular table …

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  • 4desk — [14] Desk, disc, dish, and dais – strange bedfellows semantically – form a little gang of words going back ultimately, via Latin discus, to Greek dískos ‘quoit’. Desk seems perhaps the least likely descendant of ‘quoit’, but it came desolate 160… …

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  • 5desk — [14] Desk, disc, dish, and dais – strange bedfellows semantically – form a little gang of words going back ultimately, via Latin discus, to Greek dískos ‘quoit’. Desk seems perhaps the least likely descendant of ‘quoit’, but it came about like… …

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  • 6tray — noun (C) 1 a flat piece of plastic, metal, or wood, with raised edges, used for carrying things such as plates, food etc: The waiter brought drinks on a tray. 2 especially BrE a flat open container with three sides used for holding papers,… …

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  • 7Armoire desk — An armoire desk is a writing table built within a large cabinet usually having the height of a tall man or a small woman, or anything in between. The cabinet is closed by two to four full height doors, to keep out dust or to give a tidy… …

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  • 8filing tray — ˈfiling ˌtray noun [countable] OFFICE a flat container, used in an office to hold letters, papers etc that are being dealt with; =IN TRAY; OUT TRAY: • The papers were piled into two filing trays on Jefferson s desk. * * * filing tray UK US noun… …

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  • 9in tray — UK US noun [countable] [singular in tray plural in trays] a container on your desk where you keep documents and letters that are ready to be read or answered …

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  • 10out tray — UK US noun [countable] [singular out tray plural out trays] british a container on your desk where you keep letters or documents that are ready to be sent or put somewhere else Thesaurus: containers for letters, documents and office equipment …

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