disc
/dɪsk/
disc noun: a thin, flat, circular plate or similar object. Also the ellipsis of flying disc.
Noun
disc (plural discs)
- A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- A coin is a disc of metal.
- ; the top one is acted on by the spindle and disc d, moved by the lever e;1847, editorial staff, “Improvement in Water Taps, Cister Valves, &c. ”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 68
- An intervertebral disc.
- Something resembling a disc.
- Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.
- [A] peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the Martian disc.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 300
- A vinyl phonograph or gramophone record.
- Turn the disc over, after it has finished.
- The flat surface of an organ, as a leaf, any flat, round growth.
Verb
disc (third-person singular simple present discs, present participle discing, simple past and past participle disced)
- To harrow with a disc harrow.
- It is held that discing is as much value to lucerne as cultivation is to corn.1901 October 11, “Discing Lucerne”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 16, page 488
- To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airflow and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.
- In the air, the asymmetric drag generated by a discing propeller can result in loss of control of the airplane.
Proper noun capitalized: DISC
DISC
- Acronym of dominance, inducement, submission, and compliance, a type of personality test.
Also used as
disc is also the ellipsis of flying disc.
disc is also the alternative form of disk.
disc meaning in Marathi
disc in Marathi
- चकती
Examples of disc in a sentence
- The program comes with an online manual, supplied on compact disc.
- Never leave home without a spare stiffy disc in your bag.
- Is your CD player broken, or is this one disc damaged?
Forms of disc
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | discs |
| alternative US | disk |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | discs |
| present participle | discing |
| past participle | disced |
| past | disced |
Origin of disc
From French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, discus, dish, disk, and diskos.
Words formed from disc
- disc golf
- recovery disc
- time disc
- ultimate disc
- abrasive disc
- accretion disc
- Airy disc
- Alderson disc
- amphidisc
- Benham's disc
- bidisc
- brake disc
- circumstellar disc
- clutch disc
- compact disc
- compact disc drive
- coverdisc
- death disc
- degenerative disc disease
- digital versatile disc
- digital video disc
- discal
- disc brake
- disc drive
- discectomy
- discer
- discette
- discful
- disc horse
- disciferous
- disc image
- discitis
- disc jockey
- discless
- disclike
- discmag
- Discman
- disc number
- discocone
- discoconic
- disc of confusion
- discogenic
- discogram
- discoid
- discophile
- discophilia
- discotomy
- disc owl
- disc pack
- disc rot
- discstone
- disc-tongued frog
- facial disc
- fixed disc
- fixed disc drive
- flexi disc
- flip-disc display
- flippy disc
- floppy disc
- floppy disc drive
Phrases with disc
- ice disc
- lip disc
- sun disc
- tax disc
- disc owls
- gold disc
- hard disc
- tree disc
- disc packs
- laser disc
- optic disc
- disc brakes
43 more phrasesFewer phrases
- disc drives
- disc harrow
- disc images
- flying disc
- Nipkov disc
- Nipkow disc
- pelvic disc
- Secchi disc
- Siegel disc
- Blu-ray Disc
- disc harrows
- disc jockeys
- disc numbers
- optical disc
- parking disc
- picture disc
- slipped disc
- galactic disc
- germinal disc
- imaginal disc
- Phaistos Disc
- Poincaré disc
- Nebra sky disc
- scattered disc
- DISC assessment
- hard disc drive
- separating disc
- DISC assessments
- flying disc golf
- hard disc drives
- fixed disc drives
- floppy disc drives
- optical disc drive
- compact disc drives
- intervertebral disc
- optical disc drives
- protoplanetary disc
- scattered disc object
- scattered disc objects
- spinal disc herniation
- slot-loading disc drive
- spinal disc herniations
- slot-loading disc drives
Words that rhyme with disc
Questions about disc
- What does disc mean?
- Disc means a thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- What is disc in Marathi?
- Disc in Marathi is चकती. See Disc meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is disc?
- Disc can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce disc?
- Disc is pronounced /dɪsk/.
- What is the plural of disc?
- The plural of disc is discs.
Words near disc in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: disc (page history and authors); DISC (page history and authors); disc (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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