disc
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- disk (mainly US, or for magnetic media. See usage note.)
Etymology edit
From French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, discus, dish, disk, and diskos.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
disc (plural discs)
- A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- A coin is a disc of metal.
- (anatomy) An intervertebral disc.
- Something resembling a disc.
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 300:
- [A] peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the Martian disc.
- Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.
- A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.
- Turn the disc over, after it has finished.
- (botany) The flat surface of an organ, as a leaf, any flat, round growth.
- (disc sports) Ellipsis of flying disc.; Synonym of frisbee; generic name for the trademark Frisbee;
Usage notes edit
See usage notes at the disk entry.
Derived terms edit
- abrasive disc
- accretion disc
- Alderson disc
- brake disc
- clutch disc
- compact disc
- compact disc drive
- death disc
- degenerative disc disease
- digital versatile disc
- disc brake
- disc drive
- disciferous
- disc jockey
- disc number
- disc rot
- disc-tongued frog
- fixed disc
- fixed disc drive
- Flexi disc
- flippy disc
- floppy disc
- floppy disc drive
- flying disc golf
- galactic disc
- germinal disc
- hard disc
- hard disc drive
- ice disc
- imaginal disc
- intervertebral disc
- laser disc
- Nebra sky disc
- Nipkov disc
- Nipkow disc
- optical disc
- optical disc drive
- optic disc
- parking disc
- picture disc
- protoplanetary disc
- scattered disc
- scattered disc object
- Secchi disc
- separating disc
- Siegel disc
- slipped disc
- slot-loading disc drive
- spinal disc herniation
- sun disc
- tax disc
Translations edit
Verb edit
disc (third-person singular simple present discs, present participle discing, simple past and past participle disced)
- (agriculture) To harrow with a disc harrow.
- 1901 October 11, “Discing Lucerne”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record[1], volume 4, number 16, page 488:
- It is held that discing is as much value to lucerne as cultivation is to corn.
- (aviation, of a propeller) To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airflow and maximising the drag generated by the propeller.
- In the air, the asymmetric drag generated by a discing propeller can result in loss of control of the airplane.
Anagrams edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin discus, originally from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
disc m (plural discs or discos)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “disc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *disk, from Latin discus, originally from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
disċ m
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Old Saxon edit
Noun edit
disc m
- Alternative spelling of disk
Romanian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).
Noun edit
disc n (plural discuri)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) disc | discul | (niște) discuri | discurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) disc | discului | (unor) discuri | discurilor |
vocative | discule | discurilor |
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Greek δίσκος (dískos), partly through a Slavic intermediate.
Noun edit
disc n (plural discuri)
- dish (flat round object), especially one used in church services to collect money
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) disc | discul | (niște) discuri | discurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) disc | discului | (unor) discuri | discurilor |
vocative | discule | discurilor |