disk
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Ancient Greek δίσκος (diskos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικείν (dikein, “to hurl, to launch”).
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.
- (dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
- Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
- (computing) A floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.
- He still uses floppy disks from 1979.
- (computing, 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 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 International English, disk is the correct spelling for magnetic disks. If the medium is optical, the variant disc is usually preferred, although computing is a peculiar field for the term. For instance hard disk and other disk drives are always thus spelled, yet so are terms like compact discs. Thus, if referring to a physical drive or older media (3" or 5.25" diskettes) the k is used, but c is used for newer (optical based) media.
Less commonly, in British English, disc has been used for magnetic disks, as in floppy disc and discette.
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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”, Chicago Reader:
- The soil is plowed and disked and then seeded with a mixture of prairie plants.
- 1916, Various, Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916[1]:
Anagrams [edit]
Czech [edit]
Noun [edit]
disk m
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Old Saxon [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Proto-Germanic *diskaz, whence also Old English disc, Old Norse diskr
Noun [edit]
disk m
Swedish [edit]
Noun [edit]
disk c
- counter; table on which business is transacted
- washing-up
- dirty dishes
- (anatomy) disc
- disk drive
Declension [edit]
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
