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disc
English
Alternative forms
- disk (mainly US, or for magnetic media. See usage note.)
Etymology
From French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, discus, dish, and disk.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?sk, IPA(key): /d?sk/
- Rhymes: -?sk
Noun
disc (plural discs)
- A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- A coin is a disc of metal.
- (anatomy) An intervertebral disc.
- Something resembling a disc.
- Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.
- A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.
- Turn the disc over, after it has finished.
- (botany) The flat surface of an organ, as a leaf, any flat, round growth.
- (disc golf, ultimate frisbee) A Frisbee.
Usage notes
See usage notes at the disk entry.
Translations
Verb
disc (third-person singular simple present discs, present participle discing, simple past and past participle disced)
- (agriculture) To harrow with a disc harrow.
- (aviation, of a propeller) To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airflow and maximising the drag generated by the propeller.
Anagrams
- CDIs, CIDs, DCIS, DCIs, ICDs, SCID
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin discus, originally from Ancient Greek ?????? (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?disk/
Noun
disc m (plural discs or discos)
- disc
- (computing) disk
- (sports) discus
Derived terms
- disc compacte
- disc d'arranc
- disc dur
- disc flexible
Further reading
- “disc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *disk, from Latin discus, originally from Ancient Greek ?????? (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di?/
Noun
dis? m
- plate, dish
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: disch, dish, disc
- English: dish
- Tok Pisin: dis
- Scots: dish
- Yola: dishe
- English: dish
Old Saxon
Noun
disc m
- Alternative spelling of disk
Romanian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).
Noun
disc n (plural discuri)
- (technology) disk, disc
- (music) disk
- (sports) discus
- (anatomy) disc
Etymology 2
From Greek ?????? (dískos), partly through a Slavic intermediate.
Noun
disc n (plural discuri)
- dish (flat round object), especially one used in church services to collect money
See also
- plac?
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antumbra
English
Etymology
ante- (“before”) +? umbra (“shadow”)
Noun
antumbra
- (rare) The region from which an occulting body appears entirely contained within the disc of the light source.
Related terms
- See umbra#Derived_terms
Anagrams
- rambutan
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