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disk

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noun/dɪsk/
  1. 1

    A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

    • A coin is a disk of metal.
  2. 2

    A two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.

  3. 3

    Something resembling a disk.figuratively

    • Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
  4. 4

    An intervertebral disc

  5. 5

    A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.dated

    • Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
  6. 6

    Ellipsis of floppy disk.abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

    • He still uses disks from 1979.
  7. 7

    Ellipsis of hard disk.abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

  8. 8

    Ellipsis of optical disk.abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

    • She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.
  9. 9

    A type of harrow.

  10. 10

    A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.

verb/dɪsk/
  1. 1

    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.
  2. 2

    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.

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