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Discus

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Noun
  1. 1
    A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport.

    "He Robert Garrett] won even though he hadn't ever touched a real discus until just before the event was held."

  2. 2
    a disk used in throwing competitions wordnet
  3. 3
    The athletics event of discus throw. uncountable

    "For two years Templeton has given individual attention to Krenz. The young man has reciprocated by giving at least two hours each day to practice in the shot and discus."

  4. 4
    an athletic competition in which a disk-shaped object is thrown as far as possible wordnet
  5. 5
    A discus fish (genus Symphysodon) plural

    "The main body of the Amazon River is too fast, too deep, and too silt laden for discus."

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  1. 6
    A chakram. dated, rare

    "And Narayana instantly cut off with his discus the well-adorned head of the Danava who was drinking the Amrita without permission."

Etymology

1656. From Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, dish, disk, and diskos.

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