disk
verb
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L331500 on Wikidata ↗noun
- a round, thin thing
- short cylinder whose radius is many times its length
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /dɪsk/
noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικεῖν (dikeîn, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and diskos.
- A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
“A coin is a disk of metal.”
- A two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.
- Something resembling a disk.
“Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.”
- An intervertebral disc
- A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
“Turn the disk over, after it has finished.”
- Ellipsis of floppy disk.
“He still uses disks from 1979.”
- Ellipsis of hard disk.
- Ellipsis of optical disk.
“She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.”
- 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
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικεῖν (dikeîn, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and diskos.
- To harrow.
“That is alkali. Mr. Kochendorfer: I have a ten-year apple orchard that I disked last year and kept it tolerably clean this spring.”
“The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted potatoes.”
- 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.