Pronunciations (2)
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/dɪsk/
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dɪsk
Noun
A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
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A coin is a disk of metal.
A two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.
Something resembling a disk.
Usage- Figurative
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Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
An intervertebral disc
A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
Usage- Dated
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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
To harrow.
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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.
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The soil is plowed and disked and then seeded with a mixture of prairie plants.
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.
Usage- of an aircraft's propeller
Noun
something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
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the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky
a flat circular plate
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sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
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(computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
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Verb
draw a harrow over (land)
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