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disk
also disc (dĭsk)n.
1. A thin, flat, circular object or plate.
2. Something resembling such an object: The moon's disk was reflected in the pond.
3.
a. The disk used in a disc brake.
b. A disk used on a disk harrow.
4. A round, flattened structure in a plant or animal, such as an intervertebral disk.
5. Botany The central area bearing numerous disk flowers in the flower head of a composite plant such as a daisy.
6. Computers
a. An optical disc, especially a compact disc.
b. A magnetic disk, such as a floppy disk or hard disk.
c. The data stored on such objects.
7. A phonograph record.
8. A circular grid in a phototypesetting machine.
tr.v. disked, disk·ing, disks also disced or disc·ing or discs
1. To work (soil) with a disk harrow.
2. To make (a recording) on a phonograph record.
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disk
(dɪsk)n
1. a variant spelling (esp US and Canadian) of disc
2. (Computer Science) computing Also called: magnetic disk or hard disk a direct-access storage device consisting of a stack of plates coated with a magnetic layer, the whole assembly rotating rapidly as a single unit. Each surface has a read-write head that can move radially to read or write data on concentric tracks. Compare drum19 See also floppy disk
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
disk
(dɪsk)n.
1. any thin, flat, circular plate or object.
2. any surface that is flat and round, or seemingly so: the disk of the sun.
4. any of several types of media for storing electronic data consisting of thin round plates of plastic or metal: floppy disk; hard disk.
5. Bot., Zool. any of various roundish, flat structures or parts.
7. the central part of the flower head in composite plants, as the yellow center of the daisy.
8. any of the circular steel blades of a disk harrow.
9. Archaic. discus.
v.t. 10. to cultivate (soil) with a disk harrow.
Also, disc (for defs. 1, 2, 4–8, 10). disk′like`, adj.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
disk
or disc (dĭsk)1. Computer Science A magnetic disk, such as a hard disk, or an optical disk, such as a compact disk.
2. Anatomy See intervertebral disk.
Usage Have you ever noticed that when you buy a music CD, it is a compact disc, but when you buy a CD in a computer store it is usually a compact disk? Sometimes spelling varies according to how a word is used. Back in the late 19th century, when people were developing the technology for recording sound on a flat plate (what later became the vinyl phonograph record), the inventors referred to the plates as discs, using an alternate spelling of disk. The c spelling eventually became prevalent in the music industry, known for its disc jockeys. When American computer scientists developed flat storage devices back in the 1940s, they chose the common American spelling disk, and this is why we have hard disks installed on our computers. When the storage device known as the compact disk was invented, people in the music industry saw them as shiny substitutes for phonograph records, and they referred to them as compact discs, despite the fact that these same discs were compact disks when they stored nonmusical data. One of the advantages of abbreviations like CD is that they make spelling much simpler!
The American Heritage® Student Science Dictionary, Second Edition. Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
disk
- The layers of cartilage and pulp between vertebrae.See also related terms for layers.
Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
disc
disk1. 'disc' or 'disk': a flat circular object
In British English, a disc is a flat circular object.
A traffic warden pointed out that I had no tax disc on the windscreen.
In American English, this word is spelled disk.
2. 'compact disc'
In both British and American English, a flat shiny object that stores music is called a compact disc. The abbreviation CD is often used.
The soundtrack will be released on compact disc this summer.
3. 'disk': computer storage
In both British and American English, a disk is a flat circular plate that is used to store large amounts of information for use by a computer.
The disk is then slotted into a desktop PC.
The image data may be stored on your hard disk.
Collins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012
disk
Past participle: disked
Gerund: disking
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Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
disk
A flat plate, covered in magnetic material, which stores data on concentric tracks. Hard disks are internal and have greater storage capacity than floppy disks, which are external.
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
Disk
1. A round thin steel plate, usually dished, that is sometimes used instead of a plow shovel or moldboard.
2. To cultivate or harrow with an implement that uses disks instead of teeth or shovels.
1001 Words and Phrases You Never Knew You Didn’t Know by W.R. Runyan Copyright © 2011 by W.R. Runyan
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Noun | 1. | disk - something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate; "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky" intervertebral disc, intervertebral disk - a fibrocartilaginous disc serving as a cushion between all of the vertebrae of the spinal column (except between the first two) round shape - a shape that is curved and without sharp angles |
2. | disk - a flat circular plate acetate disk, phonograph recording disk - a disk coated with cellulose acetate brake disk - a disk or plate that is fixed to the wheel; pressure is applied to it by the brake pads deadeye - (nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud diaphragm - electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves Frisbee - a light, plastic disk about 10 inches in diameter; propelled with a flip of the wrist for recreation or competition coin blank, planchet - a flat metal disk ready for stamping as a coin plate - a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic hockey puck, puck - a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey token - a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines | |
3. | disk - sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove acetate disk, phonograph recording disk - a disk coated with cellulose acetate 78, seventy-eight - a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute | |
4. | disk - (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored diskette, floppy, floppy disk - a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer; "floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price" memory device, storage device - a device that preserves information for retrieval computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures | |
Verb | 1. | disk - draw a harrow over (land) |
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disk
also discnoun
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Translations
قُرْصأُسْطُوانَهقرص
disk
harddiskskive
levysavikiekkovinyyliäänilevykiekko
disk
koronglemez
diskur; disklingurhljómplata, skífaskífa, kringla
ディスク円盤音盤
디스크
disksskanuplate
kotúčplatňa
diskplošča
disk
แผ่นดิสก์
ổ đĩa
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
disk
[ˈdɪsk] nCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
disk
disk
(Comput):disk access
n → Datenträgerzugriff m
disk cleanup
n → Datenträgerbereinigung f
disk controller
n → Plattencontroller m
disk drive
disk
:diskless
adj (Comput) → plattenlos
disk operating system
n (Comput) → Betriebssystem nt
disk space
n (Comput) → Speicherkapazität f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
disk
disc . disk drive (ˈdisk ˌdraiv) noun the part of a computer that is used to pass information onto or from a disk.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
disk
→ قُرْص disk harddisk Scheibe δίσκος disco levy disque disk disco ディスク 디스크 schijf plate dysk disco дисковое запоминающее устройство disk แผ่นดิสก์ disk ổ đĩa 光盘Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
disk
n. disco;
herniated ___ → ___ herniado;
ruptured ___ → ruptura del ___.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
disk
V. disc.English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.