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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. (geometry) A two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.
  3. (figuratively) Something resembling a disk.
    Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
  4. (anatomy) An intervertebral disc
  5. (dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
    Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
  6. (computer hardware) Ellipsis of floppy disk.
    He still uses disks from 1979.
  7. (computer hardware) Ellipsis of hard disk.
  8. (computer hardware, nonstandard) Ellipsis of optical disk.
    She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.
  9. (agriculture) A type of harrow.
  10. (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.

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Descendants

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

Translations

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:
      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:
      The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted potatoes.
    • 1991 September 6, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
      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.

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Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

disk m inan

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

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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

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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

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References

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *disk.

Noun

disk m

  1. plate

Descendants

Portuguese

Verb

disk

  1. (Brazil) nonstandard spelling of disque (dial)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse diskr. Borrowed from a West Germanic source, perhaps Old English disc, from Proto-West Germanic *disk.

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

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  1. ^ Words, Words, Words: Philology and Beyond: Festschrift for Andreas Fischer on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. (2012). Germany: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag., p. 114
  2. ^ The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages. (2002). Germany: W. de Gruyter, p. 330