disk
any thin, flat, circular plate or object.
any surface that is flat and round, or seemingly so: the disk of the sun.
Computers. any of several types of media consisting of thin, round plates of plastic or metal, used for external storage: magnetic disk;hard disk;optical disk.
Botany, Zoology. any of various roundish, flat structures or parts.
Botany. (in the daisy and other composite plants) the central portion of the flower head, composed of tubular florets.
any of the circular steel blades that form the working part of a disk harrow.
Mathematics. the domain bounded by a circle.
Archaic. discus.
Informal. disc (def. 3).
to cultivate (soil) with a disk harrow.
Origin of disk
1- Also disc (for defs. 1, 2, 4-9, 12) .
Other words from disk
- disklike, adjective
Words that may be confused with disk
- disc, disk
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How to use disk in a sentence
The powerful forces of gravity and magnetism channel matter into huge flattened spinning platters known as accretion disks.
I had a computer guy turn the disks into Word documents—and then I had 50 Word documents.
The Final Roar: Paul Reid on Finishing William Manchester’s Life of Churchill | Kevin Canfield | November 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe real punch line is that he filed these disks away in his office.
These carts rest upon two wheels, or rather two wooden disks, which are often not even hooped with iron to keep them together.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferOverhead still wheeled the circle of guarding disks, manned, I knew, by the inexperienced priest-like insect men.
Valley of the Croen | Lee Tarbell
Over our heads the great blasting explosions went on, and I saw but three of the circling disks left to the defense of the city.
Valley of the Croen | Lee TarbellA pistol for throwing small disks of paper or metal balls, can be easily made at almost no expense as shown in the sketch.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 | VariousThis morning she wore a black China silk, through the thin bodice of which was visible an under silk strewn with gold disks.
The Butterfly House | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
British Dictionary definitions for disk
/ (dɪsk) /
a variant spelling (esp US and Canadian) of disc
Also called: magnetic disk, hard disk computing a direct-access storage device consisting of a stack of plates coated with a magnetic layer, the whole assembly rotating rapidly as a single unit. Each surface has a read-write head that can move radially to read or write data on concentric tracks: Compare drum 1 (def. 9) See also floppy disk
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for disk
: See magnetic disk.
: See optical disk.
The round, flat center, consisting of many disk flowers, found in the inflorescences of many composite plants such as the daisy.
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