Illustration of disk
- disk 3 D
variants
or disc
plural disks or discs
1
a
: the seemingly flat figure of a celestial body
the solar disk
b
archaic
: discus
2
usually disc
: any of various rounded and flattened animal anatomical structures
especially
: intervertebral disc see also slipped disc
3
: the central part of the flower head of a typical composite made up of closely packed tubular flowers
4
: a thin circular object: such as
a
usually disc
: a phonograph record
b
: a round flat plate coated with a magnetic substance on which data for a computer is stored
5
usually disc
: one of the concave circular steel tools with sharpened edge making up the working part of a disc harrow or plow
also
: an implement employing such tools
variants
or disc
disked or disced; disking or discing; disks or discs
: to cultivate with an implement (such as a harrow or plow) that turns and loosens the soil with a series of discs
Examples of disk in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
The rare event, where the moon completely blots out the sun's disk causing a brief period of darkness in the middle of the day, will be unusually accessible to millions of people.
—USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
During this type of eclipse, the moon will appear as a dark disk on top of the sun, with a bright ring around it.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
The midday gray blackening, then brightening, on account of a remote and veiled disk of sun and moon.
—John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
Executive chef Andreina Ruiz heads the kitchen where flat disks of dough prove in the fridge for 24 hours.
—The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
Season after season, the weight can break down the disks in your neck, leaving a constant stiffness.
—Qadri Inzamam Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
The original Funimation offer allowed customers who purchased Funimation disks to redeem a code for a digital copy accessible via a digital rights locker similar to Movies Anywhere.
—Ash Parrish, The Verge, 26 Feb. 2024
That moment will come when the moon completely blocks the sun's disk and ushers in totality, whereby darkness falls and spectators can catch a rare sight of the sun's outermost layer known as the corona.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2023
How To Store Double Pie Crust Wrap and chill the pie dough disks for at least two hours, or up to two days for the freshest results.
—Nancie McDermott, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2023
To make the process more stealthy, the code drops no files to disk.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2023
The exploit chain starts with writing a malicious DLL to disk from the sandboxed Adobe Reader renderer process.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 July 2022
The soil can be disked, but preparation is not necessary if the seed is placed in full sun and makes contact with the soil.
—Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 13 Sep. 2019
Quick tip: State biologists enhance turkey habitat at wildlife management areas by planting winter food, such as wheat, alfalfa or rye grass, and renewing plant succession by burning or disking.
—Brian Lovett, Outdoor Life, 3 Feb. 2020
Size: Disk up to 0.7 inch (1.7 centimeters) wide; stalk up to 0.3 inch (0.8 centimeter) tall
IUCN Red List Status:
—National Geographic, 18 Nov. 2016
Noun
California will receive a lesser, but still remarkable show, a partial solar eclipse, where the sun will look like a giant yellow disk with a bite taken out of it Monday morning.
—Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
The rare event, where the moon completely blots out the sun's disk causing a brief period of darkness in the middle of the day, will be unusually accessible to millions of people.
—USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
During this type of eclipse, the moon will appear as a dark disk on top of the sun, with a bright ring around it.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
The midday gray blackening, then brightening, on account of a remote and veiled disk of sun and moon.
—John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
Executive chef Andreina Ruiz heads the kitchen where flat disks of dough prove in the fridge for 24 hours.
—The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
Season after season, the weight can break down the disks in your neck, leaving a constant stiffness.
—Qadri Inzamam Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
The original Funimation offer allowed customers who purchased Funimation disks to redeem a code for a digital copy accessible via a digital rights locker similar to Movies Anywhere.
—Ash Parrish, The Verge, 26 Feb. 2024
That moment will come when the moon completely blocks the sun's disk and ushers in totality, whereby darkness falls and spectators can catch a rare sight of the sun's outermost layer known as the corona.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
Verb
Working each process also takes up memory pages in memory, and filling up your allotment can move memory pages to disk, from which a process really does not want to work.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2023
How To Store Double Pie Crust Wrap and chill the pie dough disks for at least two hours, or up to two days for the freshest results.
—Nancie McDermott, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2023
To make the process more stealthy, the code drops no files to disk.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2023
The exploit chain starts with writing a malicious DLL to disk from the sandboxed Adobe Reader renderer process.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 July 2022
The soil can be disked, but preparation is not necessary if the seed is placed in full sun and makes contact with the soil.
—Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 13 Sep. 2019
Quick tip: State biologists enhance turkey habitat at wildlife management areas by planting winter food, such as wheat, alfalfa or rye grass, and renewing plant succession by burning or disking.
—Brian Lovett, Outdoor Life, 3 Feb. 2020
Size: Disk up to 0.7 inch (1.7 centimeters) wide; stalk up to 0.3 inch (0.8 centimeter) tall
IUCN Red List Status:
—National Geographic, 18 Nov. 2016
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
borrowed from Latin discus "discus, kind of plate, gong" borrowed from Greek dískos "discus," in Late Greek also "dish, round mirror, the sun's disk, gong" — more at discus
Verb
derivative of disk entry 1
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“Disk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disk. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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disk
1 of 2 noun
variants
or disc
1
a
: the central part of the flower head of a typical plant (as a daisy or aster) of the composite family made up of closely packed tube-shaped flowers
b
: any of various rounded and flattened animal anatomical structures
especially
: intervertebral disk
2
: a thin circular object: as
a
usually disc
: a phonograph record
b
: a round flat plate coated with a magnetic substance on which data for a computer is stored
c
: CD
d
3
usually disc
: a tilling implement (as a plow) with sharp-edged circular cutting blades
also
: one of these blades
disk
2 of 2 verb
variants
or disc
: to cultivate (land) with a disc
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