The Liseuse is an antique desk form which was popular in France during the 18th century and produced again in the first part of the 19th century.

Liotard was an artist of great versatility, and though his fame depends largely on his graceful and delicate pastel drawings, of which La Liseuse, The Chocolate Girl, and La Belle Lyonnaise at the Dresden Gallery and Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone at Seven at the J. Paul Getty Museum are delightful examples, he achieved distinction by his enamels, copperplate engravings and glass painting.

Here, on a desk, is a stack of pamphlets representing the efforts of some of the best men of the day to penetrate these questions.

It is quite conventional in principle in past and present computing machines of the most varied types, e. g. desk multipliers, standard IBM counters, more modern relay machines, the ENIAC " ( Goldstine and von Neumann, 1946 ; p. 98 in Bell and Newell 1971 ).

" He is constantly stressed out due to having to deal with Beavis and Butt-Head: he shakes when he speaks, he is frequently rummaging through his desk for prescription medications including Maalox, and in one early episode, he is even shown guzzling a bottle of Old Crow bourbon whiskey.

This is acceptable for devices such as desk calculators, digital signal processors, and other specialised devices.

A tabletop unit is a type of multi-effects device that sits on a desk and is controlled manually.

Rogers is adjacent to Whitetop, the location of the neighborhood 24-hour service desk.

A help desk is an information and assistance resource that troubleshoots problems with computers or similar products.

Under the ITIL framework, the help desk function is referred to as a service desk in order to emphasize the ITIL focus on services.

The first-level help desk is prepared to answer the most commonly asked questions, or provide resolutions that often belong in an FAQ or knowledge base.

The queue manager is responsible for the issue queues, which can be set up in various ways depending on the help desk size or structure.

There is a need for on-site support to physically work on some help desk issues ; however, help desks are able to be more flexible with their remote support.

Their desk is located in between both substitutions areas.

Change management is usually overseen by a Change Review Board composed of representatives from key business areas, security, networking, systems administrators, Database administration, applications development, desktop support and the help desk.

The desk officer using the telephone is Ford Sterling.

The reference desk or information desk of a library is a public service counter where professional librarians provide library users with direction to library materials, advice on library collections and services, and expertise on multiple kinds of information from multiple sources.

Even though most librarians stay busy when not serving a patron, their primary duty when they are at the desk is to assist library users.

A staffed and knowledgeable reference desk is an essential part of a library.

Because of her actions, one of her squad gets shot, and she is put on a desk job.

Its Alamo Plaza Restaurant is gone, its pool long since filled in, its original color scheme painted over, its front desk now behind bulletproof glass and its rooms infested with roaches, vermin and a clientele engaged in enough criminal activity that the property averages more than one call for service to police daily.

The main control panel is just above the desk, the paper tape reader is above it ( metallic ), and the output of the Teletype model BRPE paper tape punch above that ( vertical slot ).

The rolltop desk was the mainstay of the small or medium sized office at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.

Like the older carrel desk, a cubicle seeks to give a degree of privacy to the user while taking up minimal space in a large or medium sized room.

Zibaldone were always paper codices of small or medium format – never the large desk copies of registry books or other display texts.

Also, points for days 6 and 7 for existing tropical cyclones east of 140W longitude, and days 3-7 to possible future tropical cyclones, are coordinated between the medium range pressures desk and NHC each day at 1700 UTC during the hurricane season.

They come in various shapes, some specifically sized to fit partially under a desk.

The computer itself is normally separate from the desk, which is designed to hold a typically sized computer, monitor and accessories.

Langenscheidt has language-to-language dictionaries in many languages, including, but not limited to: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Greek, Ancient Greek, Latin, Arabic, Chinese and Croatian, and in varying sizes, ranging from small travel pocket dictionaries to large desk sized ones.

Most pocket dictionaries include around 55, 000 references designed for tourists or people studying beginning or intermediate foreign languages, while larger desk sized dictionaries include around 220, 000 references.

Save for brief periods in garrison or winter quarters, soldiers rarely enjoyed the luxury of a writing desk or table.

In it are contained the writings of an " Aesthete " ( called A ), as well as the letters of a Judge Vilhelm ( called B ), both found accidentally by Eremita in an antique writing desk.

In addition to having twelve children, writing books, helping companies with their management skills, and managing women consumers, Lillian was instrumental in the design of a desk in 1933 ( in cooperation with IBM ) for display at the Chicago World ’ s Fair.

Not used to the hard labor, he developed heart trouble in a few weeks and was given a desk job, writing camp records and sports certificates in Fraktur.

A drawing board ( also drawing table, drafting table or architect's table ) is, in its antique form, a kind of multipurpose desk which can be used for any kind of drawing, writing or impromptu sketching on a large sheet of paper or for reading a large format book or other oversized document or for drafting precise technical illustrations.

Very often a drawing table could look like a writing table or even a pedestal desk when the working surface was set at the horizontal and the height adjusted to 29 inches, in order to use it as a " normal " desk.

Between July 16 and July 19, at home on her own writing desk, Stanton edited the grievances and resolutions.

alt = A man in shirt and tie and another wearing a suit stand behind a writing desk.

The very wealthy or influential usually got their own cells with a bed, desk and materials for reading and writing.

* Henry VIII's writing desk, dated 1525, made from walnut and oak, lined with leather and painted and gilded with the king's coat of arms

In the chapter " A Mad Tea Party ", the Hatter asks a notable riddle: " Why is a raven like a writing desk?

The post involved being seated at a desk in Terminal 5, and writing about the comings and goings of passengers over a week.

Two days later, on the afternoon of May 22, Brooks confronted Sumner as he sat writing at his desk in the almost empty Senate chamber: " Mr. Sumner, I have read your speech twice over carefully.

In 1927 he entered the law faculty of Central University of Venezuela, earning the first year notable qualifications, working at the legal desk and at the Bar Association of Caracas, having great interest in literature, writing short stories and trying to establish a literary magazine.

The sketch of an armoire desk which comes with this article shows a fairly large version with four folding doors, a writing surface which slides out, and a keyboard and mouse pad tray which, in turn, slides out from under the sliding writing surface.

Since most armoire desk are modern forms, the writing surface here is placed at 30 inches ( 76 cm ) from the floor.

A writing desk.

A desk is a piece of furniture and a type of table often used in a school or office setting for reading or writing on or using a computer.

The icon for a desk accessory program under System 7 and later is roughly a reversed version of the application icon, with the writing hand on the left side instead of the right.

From the mid-18th century onwards, the pedestal desk has often had a top that is inlaid with a large panel of leather ( sometimes with a gold-or blind-stamped border ) or baize for a writing surface, within a cross-banded border.

If the desk has a wooden top surface, it may have a pull-out lined writing drawer, or the pull-out may be fitted with a folding horse to serve as a bookrest.

The pedestal desk appeared, especially in England, in the 18th century but became popular in the 19th and the 20th, overtaking the variants of the secretary desk and the writing table in sheer numbers.