Raven vs. Desk

Raven vs. Desk — Is There a Difference?
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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.

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Ravenadjective

Of the color of the raven; jet-black

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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.
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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 eggs

Ravenverb

eat greedily;

he devoured three sandwiches

Ravenverb

feed greedily;

The lions ravened the bodies