1. disk(n = noun.shape) disc, saucer - something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate; "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky"
is a kind of round shape
has particulars: intervertebral disc, intervertebral disk, dot, point
2. disk(n = noun.artifact) disc - a flat circular plate;
is a kind of circle, round, plate
has particulars: acetate disk, phonograph recording disk, brake disk, deadeye, diaphragm, discus, saucer, frisbee, coin blank, planchet, hockey puck, puck, token
3. disk(n = noun.artifact) disc, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter, record - sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove;
is a kind of audio, audio recording, sound recording
has parts: acetate disk, phonograph recording disk
has particulars: l-p, lp, 78, seventy-eight
4. disk(n = noun.artifact) disc, magnetic disc, magnetic disk - (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored;
is a kind of memory device, storage device
has particulars: diskette, floppy, floppy disk, fixed disk, hard disc, hard disk
Derived form noun diskette1
disk(v = verb.creation) harrow - draw a harrow over (land);
is one way to plough, plow, turn
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something
disk, var. of DISC (esp. US & Computing).
N exteriority, outside, exterior, surface, superficies, skin, superstratum, disk, disc, face, facet, extrados, excentricity, eccentricity, circumjacence, exterior, external, outer most, outward, outlying, outside, outdoor, round about, extramural, extralimitary, extramundane, superficial, skin-deep, frontal, discoid, extraregarding, excentric, eccentric, outstanding, extrinsic, ecdemic, exomorphic, externally, out, with out, over, outwards, ab extra, out of doors, extra muros, in the open air, sub Jove, sub dio, a la belle etoile, al fresco.
N front, fore, forepart, foreground, face, disk, disc, frontage, facade, proscenium, facia, frontispiece, anteriority, obverse (of a medal or coin), fore rank, front rank, van, vanguard, advanced guard, outpost, first line, scout, brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mut, rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore, jib, pioneer, metoposcopy, fore, anterior, front, frontal, before, in front, in the van, in advance, ahead, right ahead, forehead, foremost, in the foreground, in the lee of, before one's face, before one's eyes, face to face, vis-a-vis, front a front, formosa muta commendatio est, frons est animi janua, Human face divine, imago animi vultus est indices oculi, sea of upturned faces.
acetate disk, brake disk, compact disk, compact disk player, disk access, disk brake, disk cache, disk clutch, disk controller, disk drive, disk error, disk file, disk harrow, disk jockey, disk operating system, disk overhead, disk pack, disk shape, disk space, fixed disk, floppy disk, hard disk, intervertebral disk, laser disk, magnetic disk, microsoft disk operating system, optic disk, optical disk, phonograph recording disk, ram disk, rayleigh disk, removable disk