Disk Definition
disk
discs, disks
noun
disks
A thin, flat, circular thing of any material.
Webster's New World
Anything like this in form.
The moon's disk.
Webster's New World
Any of the sharp, circular blades of a disk harrow.
Webster's New World
A layer of fibrous connective tissue with small masses of cartilage among the fibers, occurring between adjacent vertebrae.
Webster's New World
A round, flattened structure in a plant or animal, such as an intervertebral disk.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
- disc
- saucer
- platter
- record
- phonograph recording
- phonograph record
- magnetic disc
- magnetic disk
- Frisbee (trademark)
- hard disk
- compact disc
- flan
- floppy disk
- c.d.
- quoit
verb
To work (soil) with a disk harrow.
American Heritage
To make (a recording) on a phonograph record.
American Heritage
(agriculture) To harrow.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
Origin of Disk
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Latin discus quoit from Greek diskos from dikein to throw deik- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Ancient Greek δίσκος (diskos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικείν (dikein, “to hurl, to launch”).
From Wiktionary
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