disk

English

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭsk, IPA^(key): /dɪsk/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪsk

Noun

disk (plural disks)

1. A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

   A coin is a disk of metal.

2. (figuratively) Something resembling a disk.

   Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.

3. (anatomy) An intervertebral disc
4. (dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.

   Turn the disk over, after it has finished.

5. (computer hardware) Ellipsis of floppy disk.

   He still uses disks from 1979.

6. (computer hardware) Ellipsis of hard disk.
7. (computer hardware, nonstandard) An optical disc, such as a LaserDisc, CD, DVD, Blu-ray, or similar removable optical storage medium.

   She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.

8. (agriculture) A type of harrow.
9. (botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.

Usage notes

In most varieties of English, disk is the preferred spelling for magnetic media (hence floppy disk, hard disk, disk drive), whereas disc is preferred for optical media (hence compact disc, digital versatile disc, optical disc). For all other uses, disk is preferred in American English and acceptable in Canadian English, and disc otherwise.

Less commonly, disc is used for magnetic media (as in floppy disc and discette; similarly, disk is sometimes used for optical media, as in compact disk and optical disk.

Hyponyms

computer hardware

• boot disk
• compact disk
• fixed disk
• flippy disk
• floppy disk
• floptical disk
• hard disk
• RAM disk
• Winchester disk
• Zip disk

 

Derived terms

• accretion disk
• Alderson disk
• blastodisk
• circumplanetary disk
• coverdisk
• disk access time
• diskazine
• diskcyclic
• disk drive
• diskectomy
• diskery
• diskette
• disk image
• disk jockey
• disklabel
• diskless
• disklike
• diskmag
• disk on key
• disk owl
• disk rot
• diskspace
• disk wheel
• diskzine
• fixed disk drive
• floppy disk drive
• flying disk
• germinal disk
• hard disk drive
• holodisk
• ice disk
• interdisk
• magnetodisk
• microdisk
• minidisk
• multidisk
• musicdisk
• nanodisk
• Nipkov disk
• Nipkow disk
• optical disk
• optical disk drive
• optic disk
• parking disk
• photodisk
• Poincaré disk
• polydisk
• protoplanetary disk
• quasidisk
• RAID
• Secchi disk
• semidisk
• silicon disk
• slipped disk
• stellar disk
• subdisk
• sundisk
• superdisk
• time disk
• trochal disk
• unit disk

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: ディスク (disuku)
• → Korean: 디스크 (diseukeu)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: disk
• → Thai: ดิสก์ (dìt)
• → Turkish: disk
• → Welsh: disg

Translations

a thin, flat, circular plate

• Albanian: disk (sq) m
• Arabic: قُرْص m (qurṣ)
• Armenian: սկավառակ (hy) (skavaṙak)
• Asturian: discu m
• Azerbaijani: disk, qurs
• Belarusian: дыск m (dysk)
• Bengali: ডিস্ক (ḍisko), চাকতি (bn) (cakti)
• Bulgarian: диск m (disk)
• Burmese: အခွေ (my) (a.hkwe)
• Catalan: disc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圓盤／圆盘 (zh) (yuánpán)

• Czech: disk (cs) m
• Danish: skive (da)
• Dutch: schijf (nl) f
• Esperanto: disko
• Estonian: ketas (et)
• Finnish: kiekko (fi)
• French: disque (fr) m
• Georgian: დისკი (disḳi)
• German: Scheibe (de), Kreisscheibe f, Kreisfläche (de) f
• Greek: δίσκος (el) m (dískos), δισκάριο (el) n (diskário)

  Ancient: δίσκος m (dískos)

• Hebrew: דִּיסְק (he) m (disk)
• Hindi: डिस्क (ḍisk), चक्र (hi) m (cakra), चक्का (hi) m (cakkā)
• Hungarian: lemez (hu), korong (hu)
• Icelandic: diskur (is) m
• Ido: disko (io)
• Indonesian: cakram (id), piringan (id)
• Italian: disco (it) m
• Japanese: ディスク (ja) (disuku), 円盤 (ja) (えんばん, enban)
• Kazakh: диск (disk)
• Khmer: ដួង (km) (duəŋ)
• Korean: 디스크 (ko) (diseukeu), 원반 (ko) (wonban)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xeple f

• Kyrgyz: диск (ky) (disk)
• Lao: ຈັກ (chak), ຈັກກະ (chak ka)
• Latin: discus m
• Latvian: disks m
• Lithuanian: diskas (lt) m
• Macedonian: диск m (disk)
• Malay: cakera (ms)
• Maori: porotiti, hūkeke
• Mongolian: диск (mn) (disk)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skive (no) m or f

• Ottoman Turkish: آغرشاق (ağırşak)
• Persian: دیسک (fa) (disk)
• Plautdietsch: Schiew f
• Polish: dysk (pl) m
• Portuguese: disco (pt)
• Romanian: disc (ro) n
• Russian: диск (ru) m (disk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: диск m, колут m

  Roman: disk (sh) m, kolut (sh) m

• Slovak: disk m
• Slovene: disk (sl) m, kolut m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: tačel f

• Spanish: disco (es)
• Swedish: skiva (sv) c
• Tagalog: disko, dalipay
• Tajik: диск (disk)
• Thai: ดิสก์ (dìt), จักร (th) (jàk)
• Turkish: disk (tr), ağırşak (tr)
• Turkmen: disk
• Ukrainian: диск (uk) m (dysk), кружа́ло n (kružálo)
• Urdu: ڈسک (ḍisk)
• Uzbek: disk (uz)
• Vietnamese: đĩa (vi)
• Volapük: diskud (vo)

something resembling a disk

• Armenian: սկավառակ (hy) (skavaṙak)
• Catalan: disc (ca) m
• Dutch: schijf (nl) f
• Finnish: kiekko (fi)
• French: disque (fr) m
• German: Scheibe (de)
• Greek: δίσκος (el) m (dískos)

  Ancient: δίσκος m (dískos)

• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xeple f

• Plautdietsch: Schiew f
• Portuguese: disco (pt) m
• Romanian: disc (ro) n
• Russian: диск (ru) m (disk)
• Sanskrit: मण्डल (sa) n (maṇḍala)
• Spanish: disco (es) m
• Tagalog: dalipay
• Turkish: disk (tr)
• Ukrainian: диск (uk) m (dysk)

intervertebral disc

• Czech: ploténka f
• Dutch: discus (nl) m
• Finnish: välilevy (fi)
• French: disque (fr) m
• German: Bandscheibe (de)
• Greek: δίσκος (el) m (dískos)
• Hebrew: דִיסקָה m (dískus)
• Romanian: disc (ro) n
• Russian: диск (ru) m (disk)
• Spanish: disco intervertebral m
• Ukrainian: диск (uk) m (dysk)
• Yiddish: דיסק (disk)

a vinyl phonograph/gramophone record

• Arabic: أُسْطُوَانَة (ar) f (ʔusṭuwāna)
• Belarusian: пласці́нка f (plascínka), дыск m (dysk)
• Bulgarian: пло́ча (bg) f (plóča)
• Catalan: disc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 唱片 (zh) (chàngpiàn)

• Czech: deska (cs) f
• Dutch: plaat (nl) f
• Finnish: levy (fi), äänilevy (fi), vinyyli (fi), savikiekko (fi)
• French: disque (fr) m
• German: Schallplatte (de) f, Platte (de) f, Scheibe (de) f
• Greek: δίσκος (el) m (dískos)
• Hebrew: דִיסק (he) m (disk)
• Indonesian: piringan hitam (id)
• Irish: ceirnín m
• Japanese: 音盤 (ja) (おんばん, onban), レコード (ja) (rekōdo)
• Korean: 음반 (ko) (eumban), 레코드 (ko) (rekodeu)
• Lao: ແຜ່ນສຽງ (phǣn sīang)
• Macedonian: плоча (mk) f (ploča)
• Polish: płyta gramofonowa (pl) f, płyta winylowa (pl) f, płyta (pl) f, winyl (pl) m
• Portuguese: vinil (pt) m
• Romanian: disc (ro) n, placă de gramofon f
• Russian: пласти́нка (ru) f (plastínka), диск (ru) m (disk)
• Slovak: platňa f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: tačel f

• Spanish: disco (es) m
• Thai: แผ่นเสียง (th) (pɛ̀n-sǐiang)
• Turkish: plak (tr)
• Ukrainian: пласти́нка f (plastýnka), диск (uk) m (dysk)
• Welsh: disg m
• Yiddish: דיסק (disk)

a computer's hard disk

• Catalan: disc dur (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 磁盤／磁盘 (zh) (cípán)

• Dutch: harde schijf (nl), schijf (nl) f
• Finnish: kovalevy (fi), kiintolevy (fi)
• French: disque (fr) m
• German: Festplatte (de) f
• Greek: σκληρός δίσκος (el) m (sklirós dískos)
• Indonesian: diska
• Malay: cakera (ms)
• Northern Sotho: tiske
• Polish: dysk twardy (pl) m
• Portuguese: disco (pt) m
• Russian: диск (ru) m (disk)
• Serbo-Croatian: disk (sh) m
• Spanish: disco duro (es) m
• Turkish: sabit disk (tr)
• Ukrainian: диск (uk) m (dysk)
• Welsh: disg m
• Yiddish: דיסק (disk)

Verb

disk (third-person singular simple present disks, present participle disking, simple past and past participle disked)

1. (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.

2. (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

• disk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• kids, ski'd, skid

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɪsk]

Noun

disk m inan

1. disc, disk (thin, flat, circular plate or similar object)

   hod diskem

Declension

Declension of disk (velar masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	disk	disky
genitive	disku	disků
dative	disku	diskům
accusative	disk	disky
vocative	disku	disky
locative	disku	discích
instrumental	diskem	disky

Derived terms

• diskový

 

Related terms

• disketa
• diskotéka

 

Further reading

• “disk”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “disk”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Icelandic

Noun

disk

1. indefinite accusative singular of diskur

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).

Noun

disk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural disker, definite plural diskene)

1. (in a shop etc.) a counter
2. (computing) a disc or disk

Derived terms

• harddisk

References

• “disk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).

Noun

disk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural diskar, definite plural diskane)

1. (in a shop etc.) a counter
2. (computing) a disc or disk

Derived terms

• harddisk

References

• “disk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *disk.

Noun

disk m

1. plate

Descendants

• Middle Low German:
  • German Low German: Disk, Disch

    Plautdietsch: Desch

Portuguese

Verb

disk

1. (Brazil) Nonstandard spelling of disque (“dial”).

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse diskr.

Noun

disk c

1. counter; table on which business is transacted
2. washing-up
3. dirty dishes
4. (anatomy) disc
5. disk drive

Declension

Declension of disk

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	disk	disks
	definite	disken	diskens
plural	indefinite	diskar	diskars
	definite	diskarna	diskarnas

Synonyms

• (disk drive): hårddisk

Derived terms

• (counter): bardisk
• (washing-up): handdisk
• (dirty dishes): diskare, diskbalja, diskborste, diskho, diskmaskin, diskmedel, diskställ, frukostdisk
• (disc (anatomy)): diskbråck

Anagrams

• kids