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English

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Etymology

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FromAncient Greekδίσκος(dískos,“a circular plate suited for hurling”), fromδικέω(dikéō,“to hurl, to launch”).Doublet ofdais,desk,disc,discus,dish, anddiskos.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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disk (pluraldisks)

  1. Athin,flat,circularplate or similarobject.
    A coin is adisk of metal.
  2. (figuratively) Somethingresembling a disk.
    Venus'disk cut off light from the Sun.
  3. (anatomy) Anintervertebral disc
  4. (dated) Avinylphonograph/gramophonerecord.
    Turn thedisk over, after it has finished.
  5. (computerhardware)Ellipsis offloppy disk.
    He still usesdisks from 1979.
  6. (computerhardware)Ellipsis ofhard disk.
  7. (computerhardware, nonstandard) Anoptical disc, such as aLaserDisc,CD,DVD,Blu-ray, or similar removable optical storage medium.
    She burned somedisks yesterday to back up her computer.
  8. (agriculture) A type ofharrow.
  9. (botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of theflowerreceptacle orovary that bearsnectar or, less commonly, thestamens.

Usage notes

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

Less commonly,disc is used for magnetic media (as infloppy disc anddiscette; similarly,disk is sometimes used for optical media, as incompact disk andoptical disk.

Hyponyms

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computer hardware

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Translations

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a thin, flat, circular plate
something resembling a disk
intervertebral disc
a vinyl phonograph/gramophone record
a computer's hard disk

Verb

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disk (third-person singular simple presentdisks,present participledisking,simple past and past participledisked)

  1. (agriculture) Toharrow.
    • 1916, Various,Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916‎[1]:
      That is alkali. Mr. Kochendorfer: I have a ten-year apple orchard that Idisked 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 anddisked the patch of ground and planted potatoes.
    • 1991 September 6, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, inChicago Reader‎[3]:
      The soil is plowed anddisked and then seeded with a mixture of prairie plants.
  2. (aviation, of anaircraft'spropeller) To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncomingairstream and maximizing thedrag generated by the propeller.

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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disk m inan

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

Declension

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Declension ofdisk (velar masculine inanimate)
singularplural
nominativediskdisky
genitivediskudisků
dativediskudiskům
accusativediskdisky
vocativediskudisky
locativediskudiscích
instrumentaldiskemdisky

Derived terms

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Further reading

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

Icelandic

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Noun

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disk

  1. indefiniteaccusativesingular ofdiskur

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsediskr (sense 1), andEnglishdisc,disk (sense 2).

Noun

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disk m (definite singulardisken,indefinite pluraldisker,definite pluraldiskene)

  1. (in a shop etc.) acounter
  2. (computing) adisc ordisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsediskr (sense 1), andEnglishdisc,disk (sense 2).

Noun

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disk m (definite singulardisken,indefinite pluraldiskar,definite pluraldiskane)

  1. (in a shop etc.) acounter
  2. (computing) adisc ordisk

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References

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Old Saxon

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Etymology

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FromProto-West Germanic*disk.

Noun

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disk m

  1. plate

Descendants

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Portuguese

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Verb

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disk

  1. (Brazil)Nonstandard spelling ofdisque(“dial”).

Swedish

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsediskr. Borrowed from aWest Germanic source, perhapsOld Englishdisc, fromProto-West Germanic*disk.[1][2]

Noun

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disk c

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

Declension

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Declension ofdisk
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitediskdisks
definitediskendiskens
pluralindefinitediskardiskars
definitediskarnadiskarnas

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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
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