Disk

//dɪsk// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

    "A coin is a disk of metal."

  2. 2
    a flat circular plate wordnet
  3. 3
    A two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.
  4. 4
    (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored wordnet
  5. 5
    Something resembling a disk. figuratively

    "Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun."

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  1. 6
    sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove wordnet
  2. 7
    An intervertebral disc
  3. 8
    something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate wordnet
  4. 9
    A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record. dated

    "Turn the disk over, after it has finished."

  5. 10
    Ellipsis of floppy disk. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

    "He still uses disks from 1979."

  6. 11
    Ellipsis of hard disk. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
  7. 12
    Ellipsis of optical disk. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, nonstandard

    "She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer."

  8. 13
    A type of harrow.
  9. 14
    A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
Verb
  1. 1
    To harrow.

    "That is alkali. Mr. Kochendorfer: I have a ten-year apple orchard that I disked last year and kept it tolerably clean this spring."

  2. 2
    draw a harrow over (land) wordnet
  3. 3
    To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.

Synonyms

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Example

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"It looks like your hard disk is fragmented."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικέω (dikéō, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and diskos.

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