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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
Noun
disk (plural disks )
A thin , flat , circular plate or similar object .
A coin is a disk of metal.
( geometry ) A two-dimensional geometric region , the set of points bounded by a circle .
( 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 .
He still uses disks from 1979.
( computer hardware ) Ellipsis of hard disk .
( computer hardware , nonstandard ) Ellipsis of optical disk .
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
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
Derived terms
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 )
Hawaiian: pālahalaha poepoe
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: (please verify ) porotiti , (please verify ) hūkeke
Mongolian: диск (mn) ( disk )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skive (no) m or f
Ottoman Turkish: آغرشاق ( ağırşak ) , دیسك ( disk )
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)
geometry: set of all points in a plane within a radius
Arabic: دَائِرَة (ar) f ( dāʔira )
Armenian: շրջան (hy) ( šrǰan )
Belarusian: круг m ( kruh )
Breton: kelc'h (br) m
Bulgarian: кръг (bg) m ( krǎg )
Catalan: disc (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 圓 / 圆 (zh) ( yuán )
Czech: kruh (cs) m
Danish: cirkel (da) c
Dutch: cirkel (nl) m
Finnish: ympyrä (fi) , ympyräkiekko , ympyrälevy
French: disque (fr) m
Georgian: წრე (ka) ( c̣re )
German: Kreis (de) m
Greek: κύκλος (el) m ( kýklos )
Ancient Greek: κύκλος m ( kúklos )
Hebrew: עיגול (he) m ( igúl ) , דיסקה f ( díska )
Hindi: चक्र (hi) m ( cakra ) , वृत्त (hi) m ( vŕtt )
Hungarian: körlap
Ingrian: kruga
Irish: ciorcal (ga) m
Italian: disco (it) m
Japanese: 円 (ja) ( えん, en ) , 丸 (ja) ( まる, maru ) , 円形 (ja) ( えんけい, enkei )
Korean: 원(圓) (ko) ( won )
Latin: circulus m
Macedonian: круг (mk) m ( krug )
Malay: bulatan (ms)
Maori: porotītiti , porotiti , porotaka
Polish: koło (pl) n , krąg (pl) m
Portuguese: círculo (pt) m
Rhine Franconian: Krääs
Russian: круг (ru) m ( krug )
Scottish Gaelic: cruinne m or f , cuairt f , buail f , ràth m , cearcall m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: круг m
Roman: krug (sh) m
Slovak: kruh m
Slovene: krog (sl) m
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: kruh m
Spanish: círculo (es) m
Swedish: cirkel (sv) c , cirkelskiva c
Thai: ดวง (th) ( duuang )
Ukrainian: круг (uk) m ( kruh ) , ко́ло (uk) n ( kólo )
Zazaki: kılor f
something resembling a 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 )
Verb
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 :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.
( 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
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
disk m inan
disc , disk ( thin, flat, circular plate or similar object )
hod diskem
Declension
Declension of disk (velar masculine inanimate )
Derived terms
Further reading
Icelandic
Noun
disk
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 )
( in a shop etc. ) a counter
( computing ) a disc or disk
Derived terms
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 )
( in a shop etc. ) a counter
( computing ) a disc or disk
Derived terms
References
“disk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *disk .
Noun
disk m
plate
Descendants
Portuguese
Verb
disk
( 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
counter ; table on which business is transacted
washing-up
dirty dishes
( anatomy ) disc
disk drive
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms
Anagrams
^ 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
^ The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages. (2002). Germany: W. de Gruyter, p. 330