DISK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disk mean? 

• DISK (noun)
  The noun DISK has 4 senses:

1. something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate

2. a flat circular plate

3. sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

4. (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored

  Familiarity information: DISK used as a noun is uncommon.

• DISK (verb)
  The verb DISK has 1 sense:

1. draw a harrow over (land)

  Familiarity information: DISK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

disc; disk; saucer

Context example:

the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky

Hypernyms ("disk" is a kind of...):

round shape (a shape that is curved and without sharp angles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disk"):

intervertebral disc; intervertebral disk (a fibrocartilaginous disc serving as a cushion between all of the vertebrae of the spinal column (except between the first two))

dot; point (a very small circular shape)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A flat circular plate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

disc; disk

Hypernyms ("disk" is a kind of...):

circle; round (any circular or rotating mechanism)

plate (a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disk"):

acetate disk; phonograph recording disk (a disk coated with cellulose acetate)

brake disk (a disk or plate that is fixed to the wheel; pressure is applied to it by the brake pads)

deadeye ((nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud)

diaphragm (electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves)

discus; saucer (a disk used in throwing competitions)

Frisbee (a light, plastic disk about 10 inches in diameter; propelled with a flip of the wrist for recreation or competition)

coin blank; planchet (a flat metal disk ready for stamping as a coin)

hockey puck; puck (a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey)

token (a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

disc; disk; phonograph record; phonograph recording; platter; record

Hypernyms ("disk" is a kind of...):

audio; audio recording; sound recording (a recording of acoustic signals)

Meronyms (parts of "disk"):

acetate disk; phonograph recording disk (a disk coated with cellulose acetate)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disk"):

L-P; LP (a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at 33.3 rpm)

78; seventy-eight (a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

disc; disk; magnetic disc; magnetic disk

Hypernyms ("disk" is a kind of...):

memory device; storage device (a device that preserves information for retrieval)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disk"):

diskette; floppy; floppy disk (a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer)

fixed disk; hard disc; hard disk (a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit)

Derivation:

diskette (a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer)

• DISK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disk    ... he / she / it disks   
Past simple: disked   
Past participle: disked   
-ing form: disking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Draw a harrow over (land)

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

disk; harrow

Hypernyms (to "disk" is one way to...):

plough; plow; turn (to break and turn over earth especially with a plow)

Domain category:

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

A dosing unit equal to the amount of active ingredient(s) contained in a disk.

(Disk Dosing Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

Microbial susceptibility is assessed by measuring the area around the disk that is free of microbial growth.

(Disk Diffusion Method, NCI Thesaurus)

Disks large homolog 1 (904 aa, ~100 kDa) is encoded by the human DLG1 gene.

(Disks Large Homolog 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Disks large homolog 4 (724 aa, ~80 kDa) is encoded by the human DLG4 gene.

(Disks Large Homolog 4, NCI Thesaurus)

Fascia adherens, similar to a zonula adherens, is a half Z line found in the cardiac muscle as one of the three intercalated disks.

(Fascia Adherens, NCI Thesaurus)

Any device component shaped like a disk, especially those used for data storage.

(Disk Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

A rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit.

(Computer Hard Disc, NCI Thesaurus)

The disks themselves then create inflows to the black hole.

(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It causes swelling between your vertebrae, which are the disks that make up your spine, and in the joints between your spine and pelvis.

(Ankylosing Spondylitis, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease)

An optical disk storage system for computers on which data can be read or from which data can be retrieved but not entered or modified.

(CD-ROM, NCI Thesaurus)