disk
English edit
Etymology edit
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.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
disk (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 edit
In 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 edit
computer hardware
Derived 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 edit
a thin, flat, circular plate
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something resembling a disk
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intervertebral disc
a vinyl phonograph/gramophone record
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a computer's hard disk
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Verb edit
disk (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 edit
Anagrams edit
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
disk m inan
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
Icelandic edit
Noun edit
disk
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).
Noun edit
disk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural disker, definite plural diskene)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “disk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).
Noun edit
disk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural diskar, definite plural diskane)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “disk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Saxon edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *disk.
Noun edit
disk m
Descendants edit
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
disk c
- counter; table on which business is transacted
- washing-up
- dirty dishes
- (anatomy) disc
- disk drive
Declension edit
| Declension of disk | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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