disk
A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
Noun
- A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- A coin is a disk of metal.
- A two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.
- Something resembling a disk.
- Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
- An intervertebral disc
- A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
- Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
- Ellipsis of floppy disk.
- He still uses disks from 1979.
- Ellipsis of hard disk.
- Ellipsis of optical disk.
- She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.
- A type of harrow.
- A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
Origin
From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικεῖν (dikeîn, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and diskos.
Forms
Hyponyms
boot disk compact disk fixed disk flippy disk floppy disk floptical disk hard disk RAM disk Winchester disk Zip disk
Derived
accretion disk Airy disk Alderson disk Benham's disk blastodisk circumplanetary disk coverdisk disk access time diskazine disk buffer diskcyclic disk drive diskectomy diskery diskette disk horse disk image disk jockey disklabel diskless disklike diskmag disk on key disk operating system
Verb
- 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. - 1916, Various, Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916:
- The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted potatoes. - 1948, Various, Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report:
- The soil is plowed and disked and then seeded with a mixture of prairie plants. - 1991 September 6, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
- 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.