disk
/dɪsk/
disk noun: a thin, flat, circular plate or similar object. Also the ellipsis of floppy disk.
Noun
disk (plural disks)
- 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.
- 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
disk (third-person singular simple present disks, present participle disking, simple past and past participle disked)
- 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.1916, Various, Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916
- The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted potatoes.1948, Various, Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report
- 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.
Also used as
disk is also the ellipsis of floppy disk.
disk is also the ellipsis of hard disk.
disk is also the ellipsis of optical disk.
disk meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
disk in Hindi
- a thin, flat, circular plate
- डिस्क ḍisk, चक्र cakra, चक्का cakkā
- geometry: set of all points in a plane within a radius
- चक्र cakra, वृत्त vŕtt
disk in Marathi
- डिस्क, डिस्कवर करणे
disk in Urdu
- a thin, flat, circular plate
- ڈسک ḍisk
disk in Bengali
- a thin, flat, circular plate
- ডিস্ক ḍisko, চাকতি cakti
More languagesFewer languages
- disk in Telugu
- డిస్క్, డిస్కు, డిస్క్కు
- disk in Malayalam
- ഡിസ്ക്, ഡിസ്കു്, ഡിസ്കിലേക്ക്
- disk in Kannada
- ಡಿಸ್ಕ್, ಡಿಸ್ಕು, ಡಿಸ್ಕ್ಗೆ
- disk in Punjabi
- ਡਿਸਕ, ਡਿਸਕ ਕਰਨਾ
- disk in Gujarati
- ડિસ્ક
- disk in Odia
- ଡିସ୍କ, ଡିସ୍କ୍, ଡିସ୍କକୁ
- disk in Sanskrit
- मण्डल maṇḍala
- disk in Nepali
- डिस्क
- disk in Tagalog
- disko, dalipay
- disk in Arabic
- قُرْص qurṣ, دَائِرَة dāʔira, أُسْطُوَانَة ʔusṭuwāna
- disk in Malay
- cakera, bulatan
- disk in Indonesian
- cakram, piringan, piringan hitam, diska
- disk in Persian
- دیسک disk
- disk in Thai
- ดิสก์ dìt, จักร jàk, ดวง duuang, แผ่นเสียง pɛ̀n-sǐiang
- disk in Vietnamese
- đĩa
- disk in Myanmar
- အခွေ a.hkwe
Examples of disk in a sentence
- The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it.
- I'm going to delete these unwanted files to free up some disk space.
- I parked the drive heads of my hard disk before travelling with my laptop.
Forms of disk
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | disks |
| alternative form | disc |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | disks |
| present participle | disking |
| past participle | disked |
| past | disked |
Origin of disk
From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικέω (dikéō, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and diskos.
Words formed from disk
- accretion disk
- Airy disk
- Alderson disk
- Benham's disk
- blastodisk
- circumplanetary disk
- circumstellar disk
- coverdisk
- disk access time
- diskazine
- disk buffer
- diskcyclic
- disk drive
- diskectomy
- diskery
- diskette
- disk horse
- disk image
- disk jockey
- disklabel
- diskless
- disklike
- diskmag
- disk of confusion
- disk on key
- disk operating system
- disk owl
- disk pack
- disk rot
- diskspace
- disk wheel
- diskzine
- fixed disk drive
- flash disk
- flip-disk display
- floppy disk drive
- flying disk
- germinal disk
- hard disk drive
- holodisk
- ice disk
- interdisk
- Jefferson disk
- lip disk
- magnetodisk
- microdisk
- minidisk
- multidisk
- musicdisk
- nanodisk
- Nipkov disk
- Nipkow disk
- optical disk
- optical disk drive
- optic disk
- parking disk
- photodisk
- Poincaré disk
- polydisk
- protoplanetary disk
Phrases with disk
- RAM disk
- tax disk
- Zip disk
- boot disk
- disk owls
- gold disk
- hard disk
- time disk
- tree disk
- unit disk
- brake disk
- disk brake
28 more phrasesFewer phrases
- disk packs
- fixed disk
- disk brakes
- disk drives
- disk images
- disk wheels
- flippy disk
- floppy disk
- Secchi disk
- Siegel disk
- compact disk
- disk jockeys
- silicon disk
- slipped disk
- stellar disk
- trochal disk
- virtual disk
- floptical disk
- scattered disk
- Winchester disk
- hard disk drives
- disk access times
- fixed disk drives
- floppy disk drives
- optical disk drives
- scattered disk object
- disk operating systems
- scattered disk objects
Words that rhyme with disk
Questions about disk
- What does disk mean?
- Disk means a thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- What is disk in Hindi?
- Disk in Hindi is डिस्क (ḍisk), चक्र (cakra), चक्का (cakkā). See Disk meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is disk?
- Disk can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce disk?
- Disk is pronounced /dɪsk/.
- What is the plural of disk?
- The plural of disk is disks.
Words near disk in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: disk (page history and authors); disk (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disk (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disk (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disk (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disk (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disk (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disk (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disk (Nepali, 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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