A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
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.
A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
Short for mixing desk.
verb
(transitive) To equip with a desk or desks.
(transitive) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
eisk
ekes
ekes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eke
ekts
elks
elks
noun
plural of elk
esko
esky
esky
noun
(Australia) An insulated picnic cooler, using ice or refrigerated blocks to keep food and drinks cool.
eysk
kaes
kase
keas
keas
noun
plural of kea
kefs
kegs
kegs
noun
(Northern England) Trousers (pants).
(Northern England) Underpants.
Alternative spelling of kecks
plural of keg
kens
kens
noun
plural of ken
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ken
keos
keps
kers
keys
keys
noun
plural of key
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of key
kies
kues
kues
noun
plural of kue
leks
leks
noun
plural of lek
okes
okes
noun
plural of oke
sake
sake
noun
(obsolete except in phrases) contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge
Alternative spelling of saké
cause, interest or account
purpose or end; reason
the benefit or regard of someone or something
seak
seak
noun
soap prepared for use in milling cloth
seck
seck
adj
(obsolete) barren; unprofitable
seek
seek
noun
(computing) The operation of navigating through a stream.
verb
(intransitive, computing) To navigate through a stream.
(intransitive, obsolete) To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
(intransitive, sometimes proscribed) To attempt, endeavour, try
(transitive) To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
(transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
(transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
(transitive, intransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
seka
seko
sekt
sike
sike
intj
(slang) Alternative form of psych
noun
(Scotland, Northumbria) A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer.
(Yorkshire) such
(archaic or Northern England) A sigh.
verb
(archaic or Northern England) To sigh or sob.
sked
sked
noun
(informal) A schedule.
verb
(transitive, informal) To schedule.
skee
skee
noun
Obsolete form of ski.
skeg
skeg
noun
(Australia, slang) A surfer; a person who leads a surfing lifestyle.
(Northern English) A look or glance.
(nautical) A fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller.
(nautical) A similar construction on a boat that acts as a keel.
(obsolete) A kind of oat.
(obsolete) A sort of wild plum (Prunus spinosa or Prunus domestica subsp. insititia (syn. Prunus institia)).
A fin that serves to stabilize a surfboard.
skel
sken
sken
verb
(Northern English) to glance
(Northern English) to squint
skeo
skeo
noun
A fisherman's hut in Orkney.
skep
skep
noun
A basket.
A beehive made of straw or wicker.
sker
sket
sket
noun
(MLE, derogatory, slang) A sexually promiscuous woman.
skew
skew
adj
(comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
(not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
(not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
adv
(rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.
noun
(architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
(architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
(chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
(electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
(statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
A squint or sidelong glance.
An oblique or sideways movement.
Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
verb
(intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
(intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
(intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
(statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
(transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
(transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
(transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
skey
skye
skye
noun
Obsolete form of sky.
soke
soke
noun
(England, historical) A district under a particular jurisdiction.
(England, law, historical) A soc (a medieval right to hold a court or to receive fines).
syke
syke
noun
(heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure; a fountain.
Alternative spelling of sike (“a gutter or ditch”)