Raven vs. Desk
Difference Between Raven and Desk
Ravennoun
Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
Desknoun
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.
Ravennoun
Rapine; rapacity.
Desknoun
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.
Ravennoun
Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
Desknoun
A department of a newspaper tasked with covering a particular geographical region or aspect of the news.
Ravenadjective
Of the color of the raven; jet-black
raven curlsraven darknessShe was a tall, sophisticated, raven-haired beauty.Deskverb
To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
Ravenverb
To obtain or seize by violence.
Desknoun
a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments
Ravenverb
(transitive) To devour with great eagerness.
Ravenverb
(transitive) To prey on with rapacity.
The raven is both a scavenger, who ravens a dead animal almost like a vulture, and a bird of prey, who commonly ravens to catch a rodent.Ravenverb
(intransitive) To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).
Ravennoun
large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
Ravenverb
obtain or seize by violence
Ravenverb
prey on or hunt for;
These mammals predate certain eggsRavenverb
eat greedily;
he devoured three sandwichesRavenverb
feed greedily;
The lions ravened the bodies
