disk

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate

   The moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky.

2. 2
   noun

   A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

   A coin is a disk of metal.

3. 3
   noun

   Something resembling a disk.

   Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.

4. 4
   noun

   A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.

   Turn the disk over, after it has finished.

5. 5
   noun

   Ellipsis of floppy disk.

   He still uses disks from 1979.

6. 6
   noun

   Ellipsis of optical disk.

   She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.

7. 7
   verb

   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.

8. 8
   noun

   a flat circular plate

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικεῖν (dikeîn, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and diskos.