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/rˈaɪtɪŋ dɛsk/ Listen

noun

Writing n.

1.

The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs.

2.

Anything written or printed; anything expressed in characters or letters; as:

(a)

Any legal instrument, as a deed, a receipt, a bond, an agreement, or the like.

(b)

Any written composition; a pamphlet; a work; a literary production; a book; as, the writings of Addison.

(c)

An inscription. "And Pilate wrote a title... And the writing was, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews."

3.

Handwriting; chirography.

Writing book, a book for practice in penmanship.

Writing desk, a desk with a sloping top for writing upon; also, a case containing writing materials, and used in a similar manner.

Writing lark (Zool.), the European yellow-hammer; so called from the curious irregular lines on its eggs. (Prov. Eng.)

Writing machine. Same as Typewriter.

Writing master, one who teaches the art of penmanship.

Writing obligatory (Law), a bond.

Writing paper, paper intended for writing upon with ink, usually finished with a smooth surface, and sized.

Writing school, a school for instruction in penmanship.

Writing table, a table fitted or used for writing upon.

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Etymology of 'Writing desk'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Writing desk" Quotes from Famous Books

... hole of large proportions had rent a gash in the outer front wall, leaving the window woodwork, bricks and wall-paper piled up in a heap on the floor, partially obliterating a large writing desk. Private papers lay about in profusion, all dirty, damp and muddy. The remains of a window blind and half its roller hung in the space left by the absent window, and mournfully tapped against the remnant of the framework ...

— Bullets & Billets • Bruce Bairnsfather

... 1795)." says M. Baileul, "there was hardly a single article of furniture in it. In a small room, round a little broken table, one of the legs of which had given way from age, on which table they had deposited a quire of letter-paper, and a writing desk 'a calamet', which luckily they had had the precaution to bring with them from the Committee of Public safety, seated on four rush-bottomed chairs, in front of some logs of wood ill-lighted, the whole borrowed from the porter Dupont; who would believe that it was in this ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... house had been in the old gay days; dark from much tragedy it seemed to-day. What would it be to her when she came back again? But, little by little, the old room soothed and stilled her. There were the sedate four-poster bed and the demure dresser and the little writing desk, good mahogany all of them; come by devious paths from a Virginia plantation; the cool blue of walls and rugs and hangings; the few pictures she had loved; three framed photographs of the Los Angeles football squad; a framed photograph of Jimsy in his class play; a bowl of dull blue pottery filled ...

— Play the Game! • Ruth Comfort Mitchell

... to risk the loss of it by attempting a new style of composition. I therefore threw aside the work I had commenced, without either reluctance or remonstrance. This portion of the manuscript was laid aside in the drawers of an old writing desk, which, on my first coming to reside at Abbotsford in 1811, was placed in a lumber garret, and entirely forgotten. Thus, though I sometimes, among other literary avocations, turned my thoughts to the continuation of the romance which I had commenced, ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 571 - Volume 20, No. 571--Supplementary Number • Various

... opened his own door. The room was pleasant. The fire burned warm, the piano stood open, the sofa was untidy with cushions and papers. Books and papers covered the big writing desk. Beyond the screen made by the bookshelves and the piano were two beds, with washstand by one of the large windows, the one ...

— Aaron's Rod • D. H. Lawrence

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