disk
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]disk (plural disks)
- A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- A coin is a disk of metal.
- (figuratively) Something resembling a disk.
- Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
- (anatomy) An intervertebral disc
- (dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
- Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
- (computer hardware) Ellipsis of floppy disk.
- He still uses disks from 1979.
- (computer hardware) Ellipsis of hard disk.
- (computer hardware, nonstandard) An optical disc, such as a LaserDisc, CD, DVD, Blu-ray, or similar removable optical storage medium.
- She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.
- (agriculture) A type of harrow.
- (botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
Usage notes
[edit]In most varieties of English, disk is the preferred spelling for magnetic media (hence floppy disk, hard disk, disk drive), whereas disc is preferred for optical media (hence compact disc, digital versatile disc, optical disc). For all other uses, disk is preferred in American English and acceptable in Canadian English, and disc otherwise.
Less commonly, disc is used for magnetic media (as in floppy disc and discette; similarly, disk is sometimes used for optical media, as in compact disk and optical disk.
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- accretion disk
- Alderson disk
- circumplanetary disk
- disk access time
- disk drive
- diskery
- diskette
- disk image
- disk jockey
- disk on key
- disk rot
- disk wheel
- fixed disk drive
- floppy disk drive
- germinal disk
- hard disk drive
- ice disk
- Nipkov disk
- Nipkow disk
- optical disk
- optical disk drive
- optic disk
- parking disk
- Poincaré disk
- protoplanetary disk
- RAID
- Secchi disk
- silicon disk
- slipped disk
- stellar disk
- time disk
- trochal disk
- unit disk
Descendants
[edit]- → Japanese: ディスク (disuku)
- → Korean: 디스크 (diseukeu)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: disk
- → Thai: ดิสก์ (dìt)
- → Turkish: disk
- → Welsh: disg
Translations
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Verb
[edit]disk (third-person singular simple present disks, present participle disking, simple past and past participle disked)
- (agriculture) To harrow.
- 1916, Various, Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916[1]:
- That is alkali. Mr. Kochendorfer: I have a ten-year apple orchard that I disked last year and kept it tolerably clean this spring.
- 1948, Various, Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report[2]:
- The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted potatoes.
- 1991 September 6, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader[3]:
- The soil is plowed and disked and then seeded with a mixture of prairie plants.
- (aviation, of an aircraft's propeller) 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.
Further reading
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]disk m inan
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “disk”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “disk”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Icelandic
[edit]Noun
[edit]disk
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).
Noun
[edit]disk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural disker, definite plural diskene)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “disk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).
Noun
[edit]disk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural diskar, definite plural diskane)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “disk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Saxon
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *disk.
Noun
[edit]disk m
Descendants
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]disk c
- counter; table on which business is transacted
- washing-up
- dirty dishes
- (anatomy) disc
- disk drive
Declension
[edit]Declension of disk | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | disk | disken | diskar | diskarna |
Genitive | disks | diskens | diskars | diskarnas |
Synonyms
[edit]- (disk drive): hårddisk
Derived terms
[edit]- (counter): bardisk
- (washing-up): handdisk
- (dirty dishes): diskare, diskbalja, diskborste, diskho, diskmaskin, diskmedel, diskställ, frukostdisk
- (disc (anatomy)): diskbråck
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- en:Aviation
- en:Circle
- en:Furniture
- en:Plant anatomy
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- Icelandic non-lemma forms
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- nb:Computing
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- nn:Computing
- Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
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- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
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- sv:Anatomy