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English
Etymology
From French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, discus, dish, disk, and diskos.
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 300: 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.
- 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
See usage notes at the disk entry.
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Verb
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, 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.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin discus, originally from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).
Pronunciation
Noun
disc m (plural discs or discos)
- disc
- (music) Clipping of disc fonogràfic.
- (computing) disk
- (sports) discus
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Further reading
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *disk, from Latin discus, originally from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).
Pronunciation
Noun
disċ m
- plate, dish
Declension
Strong a-stem:
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Descendants
Old Saxon
Noun
disc m
- Alternative spelling of disk
Romanian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).
Noun
disc n (plural discuri)
- (technology) disk, disc
- (music) disk
- (sports) discus
- (anatomy) disc
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Greek δίσκος (dískos), partly through a Slavic intermediate.
Noun
disc n (plural discuri)
- dish (flat round object), especially one used in church services to collect money
Declension
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