disk

disk

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭsk, IPA^(key): /dɪsk/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪsk

Noun

disk (plural disks)

1. A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

   A coin is a disk of metal.

2. (figuratively) Something resembling a disk.

   Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.

3. (anatomy) An intervertebral disc
4. (dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.

   Turn the disk over, after it has finished.

5. (computer hardware) Ellipsis of floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.

   He still uses floppy disks from 1979.

6. (computer hardware, nonstandard) A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium.

   She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.

7. (agriculture) A type of harrow.
8. (botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.

Usage notes

In most varieties of English, disk is the correct spelling for magnetic media (hence hard disk or disk drive), whereas the variant disc is usually preferred with optical media (hence compact disc or disc film). Thus, if referring to a physical drive or older media (3.5" or 5.25" diskettes) the k is used, but c is used for newer (optical based) media. For all other uses, disc is standard in Commonwealth English and disk in American English.

Less commonly, in British English, disc has been used for magnetic disks, as in floppy disc and discette. Such usage may be considered nonstandard.

Hyponyms

computer hardware

• fixed disk
• floppy disk
• hard disk

 

Derived terms

• accretion disk
• Alderson disk
• boot disk
• compact disk
• disk drive
• diskery
• diskette
• disk image
• disk jockey
• disk rot
• fixed disk drive
• flippy disk
• floppy disk drive
• floptical disk
• germinal disk
• hard disk drive
• ice disk
• Nipkov disk
• Nipkow disk
• optical disk
• optical disk drive
• optic disk
• parking disk
• Poincaré disk
• protoplanetary disk
• RAID
• RAM disk
• Secchi disk
• slipped disk
• stellar disk
• trochal disk
• unit disk
• Winchester disk
• Zip disk

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: ディスク (disuku)
• → Korean: 디스크 (diseukeu)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: disk
• → Thai: ดิสก์ (dìt)
• → Turkish: disk

Translations

a thin, flat, circular plate

Albanian: disk (sq) m Arabic: قُرْص‎ m (qurṣ) Armenian: սկավառակ (hy) (skavaṙak) Asturian: discu m Azerbaijani: disk, qurs Belarusian: дыск m (dysk) Bengali: ডিস্ক (ḍiskô), চাকতি (cakôti) Bulgarian: диск m (disk) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: disc (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 圓盤／圆盘 (zh) (yuánpán) Czech: disk (cs) m Danish: skive (da) Dutch: schijf (nl) f Esperanto: disko Estonian: ketas (et) Finnish: kiekko (fi) French: disque (fr) m Georgian: დისკი (disḳi) German: Scheibe (de), Kreisscheibe f, Kreisfläche (de) f Greek: δίσκος (el) m (dískos), δισκάριο (el) n (diskário) Ancient: δίσκος m (dískos) Hebrew: דִּיסְק‎ (he) m (disk) Hindi: डिस्क (ḍisk), चक्र (hi) m (cakra), चक्का (hi) m (cakkā) Hungarian: lemez (hu), korong (hu) Icelandic: diskur (is) m Ido: disko (io) Indonesian: cakram (id), piringan (id) Italian: disco (it) m Japanese: ディスク (disuku), 円盤 (ja) (えんばん, enban) Kazakh: диск (disk) Khmer: ដួង (km) (duəŋ) Korean: 디스크 (ko) (diseukeu), 원반 (ko) (wonban) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: xeple f Kyrgyz: диск (ky) (disk) Lao: ຈັກ (chak), ຈັກກະ (chak ka) Latvian: disks m Lithuanian: diskas (lt) m Macedonian: диск m (disk) Malay: cakera (ms) Maori: porotiti, hūkeke Mongolian: диск (mn) (disk) Norwegian: Bokmål: skive (no) m or f Persian: دیسک‎ (fa) (disk) Plautdietsch: Schiew f Polish: dysk (pl) m Portuguese: disco (pt) Romanian: disc (ro) n Russian: диск (ru) m (disk) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: диск m, колут m Roman: disk (sh) m, kolut (sh) m Slovak: disk m Slovene: disk (sl) m, kolut m Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: tačel f Spanish: disco (es) Swedish: skiva (sv) c Tagalog: disko, dalipay Tajik: диск (disk) Thai: ดิสก์ (dìt), จักร (th) (jàk) Turkish: disk (tr) Turkmen: disk Ukrainian: диск (uk) m (dysk) Urdu: ڈسک‎ (ḍisk) Uzbek: disk (uz) Vietnamese: đĩa (vi) Volapük: diskud (vo)

something resembling a disk

Armenian: սկավառակ (hy) (skavaṙak) Catalan: disc (ca) m Dutch: schijf (nl) f Finnish: kiekko (fi) French: disque (fr) m German: Scheibe (de) Greek: δίσκος (el) m (dískos) Ancient: δίσκος m (dískos) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: xeple f Plautdietsch: Schiew f Portuguese: disco (pt) m Romanian: disc (ro) n Russian: диск (ru) m (disk) Sanskrit: मण्डल (sa) n (maṇḍala) Spanish: disco (es) m Tagalog: dalipay Turkish: disk (tr) Ukrainian: диск (uk) m (dysk)

intervertebral disc

Czech: ploténka f Dutch: discus (nl) m Finnish: välilevy (fi) French: disque (fr) m German: Bandscheibe (de) Greek: δίσκος (el) m (dískos) Hebrew: דִיסקָה‎ m (dískus) Romanian: disc (ro) n Russian: диск (ru) m (disk) Spanish: disco intervertebral m Ukrainian: диск (uk) m (dysk)

a vinyl phonograph/gramophone record

Arabic: أُسْطُوَانَة‎ (ar) f (ʾusṭuwāna) Belarusian: пласці́нка f (plascínka), дыск m (dysk) Bulgarian: пло́ча (bg) f (plóča) Catalan: disc (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 唱片 (zh) (chàngpiàn) Czech: deska (cs) f Dutch: plaat (nl) f Finnish: levy (fi), äänilevy (fi), vinyyli (fi), savikiekko (fi) French: disque (fr) m German: Schallplatte (de) f, Platte (de) f, Scheibe (de) f Greek: δίσκος (el) m (dískos) Hebrew: דִיסק‎ (he) m (disk) Indonesian: piringan hitam (id) Irish: ceirnín m Japanese: 音盤 (ja) (おんばん, onban), レコード (ja) (rekōdo) Korean: 음반 (ko) (eumban), 레코드 (ko) (rekodeu) Lao: ແຜ່ນສຽງ (phǣn sīang) Macedonian: плоча f (ploča) Polish: płyta gramofonowa (pl) f, płyta winylowa (pl) f, płyta (pl) f, winyl (pl) m Portuguese: vinil (pt) m Romanian: disc (ro) n, placă de gramofon f Russian: пласти́нка (ru) f (plastínka), диск (ru) m (disk) Slovak: platňa f Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: tačel f Spanish: disco (es) m Thai: แผ่นเสียง (pɛ̀ɛn-sǐiang) Turkish: plak (tr) Ukrainian: пласти́нка f (plastýnka), диск (uk) m (dysk) Welsh: disg m

a computer's hard disk

Catalan: disc dur (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 磁盤／磁盘 (zh) (cípán) Dutch: harde schijf (nl), schijf (nl) f Finnish: kovalevy (fi), kiintolevy (fi) French: disque (fr) m German: Festplatte (de) f Greek: σκληρός δίσκος (el) m (sklirós dískos) Indonesian: diska Malay: cakera (ms) Northern Sotho: tiske Polish: dysk twardy (pl) m Portuguese: disco (pt) m Russian: диск (ru) m (disk) Serbo-Croatian: disk (sh) m Spanish: disco duro (es) m Turkish: sabit disk (tr) Ukrainian: диск (uk) m (dysk) Welsh: disg m

Verb

disk (third-person singular simple present disks, present participle disking, simple past and past participle disked)

1. (agriculture) To harrow.
   • 1916, Various, Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916‎:

     That is alkali. Mr. Kochendorfer: I have a ten-year apple orchard that I disked last year and kept it tolerably clean this spring.

   • 1948, Various, Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report‎:

     The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted potatoes.

   • 1991 September 6, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     The soil is plowed and disked and then seeded with a mixture of prairie plants.

2. (aviation, of an aircraft's propeller) To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximising the drag generated by the propeller.

Further reading

• disk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• kids, ski'd, skid

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɪsk]

Noun

disk m

1. disc, disk (thin, flat, circular plate or similar object)

   hod diskem

Declension

Declension of disk

	singular	plural
nominative	disk	disky
genitive	disku	disků
dative	disku	diskům
accusative	disk	disky
vocative	disku	disky
locative	disku	discích
instrumental	diskem	disky

Derived terms

• diskový

Related terms

• disketa
• diskotéka

Further reading

• disk in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• disk in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Icelandic

Noun

disk

1. indefinite accusative singular of diskur

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).

Noun

disk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural disker, definite plural diskene)

1. (in a shop etc.) a counter
2. (computing) a disc or disk

Derived terms

• harddisk

References

• “disk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).

Noun

disk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural diskar, definite plural diskane)

1. (in a shop etc.) a counter
2. (computing) a disc or disk

Derived terms

• harddisk

References

• “disk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *disk.

Noun

disk m

1. plate

Descendants

• Middle Low German:
  • German Low German: Disk, Disch

    Plautdietsch: Desch

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse diskr.

Noun

disk c

1. counter; table on which business is transacted
2. washing-up
3. dirty dishes
4. (anatomy) disc
5. disk drive

Declension

Declension of disk
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	disk	disken	diskar	diskarna
Genitive	disks	diskens	diskars	diskarnas

Synonyms

• (disk drive): hårddisk

Derived terms

• (counter): bardisk
• (washing-up): handdisk
• (dirty dishes): diskare, diskbalja, diskborste, diskho, diskmaskin, diskmedel, diskställ, frukostdisk
• (disc (anatomy)): diskbråck

Anagrams

• kids