disk
nounverbcommon in dialogue
- //dɪsk//
A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
noun
- 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
figurativeSomething resembling a disk.
Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
- 4
An intervertebral disc
- 5
datedA vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
- 6
A type of harrow.
- 7
A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
- 8
Variant of floppy diskEllipsis of floppy disk.
He still uses disks from 1979.
- 9
Variant of hard diskEllipsis of hard disk.
- 10
Variant of optical diskEllipsis of optical disk.
She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.
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.
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.
- 2
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.
Forms
- plural
- disks
- past tense
- disked
- past participle
- disked
- present participle
- disking
- third 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.