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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.

disk (plural disks)

  1. A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

    A coin is a disk of metal.

  2. (figuratively) Something resembling a disk.

    Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.

  3. (anatomy) An intervertebral disc
  4. (dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.

    Turn the disk over, after it has finished.

  5. (computer hardware) Ellipsis of floppy disk.

    He still uses disks from 1979.

  6. (computer hardware) Ellipsis of hard disk.
  7. (computer hardware, nonstandard) An optical disc, such as a LaserDisc, CD, DVD, Blu-ray, or similar removable optical storage medium.

    She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.

  8. (agriculture) A type of harrow.
  9. (botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.

In most varieties of English, disk is the preferred spelling for magnetic media (hence floppy disk, hard disk, disk drive), whereas disc is preferred for optical media (hence compact disc, digital versatile disc, optical disc). For all other uses, disk is preferred in American English and acceptable in Canadian English, and disc otherwise.

Less commonly, disc is used for magnetic media (as in floppy disc and discette; similarly, disk is sometimes used for optical media, as in compact disk and optical disk.

a thin, flat, circular plate

something resembling a disk

intervertebral disc

a vinyl phonograph/gramophone record

a computer's hard disk

disk (third-person singular simple present disks, present participle disking, simple past and past participle disked)

  1. (agriculture) To harrow.

    • 1916, Various, Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916‎[1]:

      That is alkali. Mr. Kochendorfer: I have a ten-year apple orchard that I disked last year and kept it tolerably clean this spring.

    • 1948, Various, Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report‎[2]:

      The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted potatoes.

    • 1991 September 6, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader‎[3]:

      The soil is plowed and disked and then seeded with a mixture of prairie plants.

  2. (aviation, of an aircraft's propeller) 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.

disk m inan

  1. disc, disk (thin, flat, circular plate or similar object)
    hod diskem
  • “disk”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “disk”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

disk

  1. indefinite accusative singular of diskur

From Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).

disk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural disker, definite plural diskene)

  1. (in a shop etc.) a counter
  2. (computing) a disc or disk

From Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).

disk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural diskar, definite plural diskane)

  1. (in a shop etc.) a counter
  2. (computing) a disc or disk

From Proto-West Germanic *disk.

disk m

  1. plate

disk

  1. (Brazil) Nonstandard spelling of disque (“dial”).

From Old Norse diskr.

disk c

  1. counter; table on which business is transacted
  2. washing-up
  3. dirty dishes
  4. (anatomy) disc
  5. disk drive