disk
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editdisk (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 - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.
- He still uses floppy disks from 1979.
- (computer hardware, nonstandard) A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable 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
editIn most varieties of English, disk is the correct spelling for magnetic media (hence hard disk or disk drive), whereas the variant disc is usually preferred with optical media (hence compact disc or disc film). Thus, if referring to a physical drive or older media (3.5" or 5.25" diskettes) the k is used, but c is used for newer (optical based) media. For all other uses, disc is standard in Commonwealth English and disk in American English.
Less commonly, in British English, disc has been used for magnetic disks, as in floppy disc and discette. Such usage may be considered nonstandard.
Hyponyms
editDerived terms
edit- accretion disk
- Alderson disk
- boot disk
- circumplanetary disk
- compact disk
- disk access time
- disk drive
- diskery
- diskette
- disk image
- disk jockey
- disk on key
- disk rot
- disk wheel
- fixed disk drive
- flippy disk
- floppy disk drive
- floptical disk
- 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
- RAM disk
- Secchi disk
- silicon disk
- slipped disk
- stellar disk
- time disk
- trochal disk
- unit disk
- Winchester disk
- Zip 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
editdisk (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
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editCzech
editPronunciation
editNoun
editdisk m inan
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editIcelandic
editNoun
editdisk
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).
Noun
editdisk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural disker, definite plural diskene)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “disk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).
Noun
editdisk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural diskar, definite plural diskane)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “disk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Saxon
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *disk.
Noun
editdisk m
Descendants
editSwedish
editEtymology
editNoun
editdisk c
- counter; table on which business is transacted
- washing-up
- dirty dishes
- (anatomy) disc
- disk drive
Declension
editDeclension 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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- Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
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