disk
SubstantivVerbhäufig in Dialogen
- //dɪsk//
A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
Substantiv
- 1
A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
A coin is a disk of metal.
- 2
A two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.
- 3
übertragenSomething resembling a disk.
Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
- 4
An intervertebral disc
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veraltendA vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
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A type of harrow.
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A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
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Variante von floppy diskEllipsis of floppy disk.
He still uses disks from 1979.
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Variante von hard diskEllipsis of hard disk.
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Variante von optical diskEllipsis of optical disk.
She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.
Herkunft
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.
Verb
- 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.
The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted potatoes.
The soil is plowed and disked and then seeded with a mixture of prairie plants.
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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.
Formen
- Plural
- disks
- Präteritum
- disked
- Partizip II
- disked
- Partizip I
- disking
- 3. Person Singular
- disks
disk · A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
dislike · An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.dismantle · To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.dismiss · To discharge; to end the employment or service of.