Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

disk

/dɪsk/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.01 in modern English

Syllables: disk
IPA: /dɪsk/

9

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

noun

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

noun

Something resembling a disk.

noun

An intervertebral disc

noun

A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.

Dated

noun

Ellipsis of floppy disk.

noun

Ellipsis of hard disk.

noun

Ellipsis of optical disk.

Example Sentences

"A coin is a disk of metal."
"Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun."
"Turn the disk over, after it has finished."
"He still uses disks from 1979."
"She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer."
"That is alkali. Mr. Kochendorfer: I have a ten-year apple orchard that I disked last year and kept it tolerably clean this spring."

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.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: δίσκος

Usage

Dated

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Inflected Forms

disks (plural) disc (alternative) disks (present, singular) disking (participle, present) disked (participle, past) disked (past)

Derived Forms

blastodisk coverdisk diskazine diskcyclic diskectomy diskery diskette disklabel diskless disklike diskmag diskspace

Phrases

accretion disk Airy disk Alderson disk Benham's disk circumplanetary disk circumstellar disk disk access time disk buffer

Synonyms

disc magnetic disk magnetic disc phonograph record phonograph recording record platter saucer

Homonyms

disc

Rhymes With

risk disc brisk whisk fisk frisk fiske bisque risc sisk fisc lisk

Questions

How do you pronounce disk?: The recorded pronunciation is /dɪsk/.
What does disk mean?: A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
Where does disk come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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