disk

Plural: disks

Noun

• something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
  • "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky"
• a flat circular plate
• sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
• (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
• A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
• A two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.
• Something resembling a disk.
• An intervertebral disc
• A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
• Ellipsis of floppy disk.
• Ellipsis of hard disk.
• Ellipsis of optical disk.
• A type of harrow.
• A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.

Verb

Verb Forms: disked, disking, disks

• To cultivate land using a disc harrow; to disc.
• draw a harrow over (land)
• To harrow.
• 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.

Examples

• A coin is a disk of metal.
• He still uses disks from 1979.
• She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.
• The farmer would disk his field, just as a player disks their tiles.
• Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
• Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.

Synonyms

disc, harrow, magnetic disc, magnetic disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter, record, saucer

Anagrams of disk