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disk
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from ????? (diké?, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, and dish.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?sk, IPA(key): /d?sk/
- Rhymes: -?sk
Noun
disk (plural disks)
- A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- (figuratively) Something resembling a disk.
- (anatomy) An intervertebral disc
- (dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
- (computer hardware) Ellipsis of floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.
- (computer hardware, nonstandard) A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium.
- (agriculture) A type of harrow.
- (botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (disuku)
- ? Korean: ??? (diseukeu)
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: disk
- ? Thai: ????? (dìt)
- ? Turkish: disk
Usage notes
In most varieties of English, disk is the correct spelling for magnetic media (hence hard disk or disk drive), whereas the variant disc is usually preferred with optical media (hence compact disc or disc film). Thus, if referring to a physical drive or older media (3" or 5.25" diskettes) the k is used, but c is used for newer (optical based) media. For all other uses, disc is standard in Commonwealth English and disk in American English.
Less commonly, in British English, disc has been used for magnetic disks, as in floppy disc and discette. Such usage may be considered nonstandard.
Translations
Further reading
- disk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
disk (third-person singular simple present disks, present participle disking, simple past and past participle disked)
- (agriculture) To harrow.
- (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 maximising the drag generated by the propeller.
Anagrams
- kids, ski'd, skid
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?d?sk]
Noun
disk m
- disc, disk (thin, flat, circular plate or similar object)
- hod diskem
Declension
Derived terms
- diskový
Related terms
- disketa
- diskotéka
Further reading
- disk in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- disk in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Icelandic
Noun
disk
- indefinite accusative singular of diskur
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).
Noun
disk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural disker, definite plural diskene)
- (in a shop etc.) a counter
- (computing) a disc or disk
Derived terms
- harddisk
References
- “disk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).
Noun
disk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural diskar, definite plural diskane)
- (in a shop etc.) a counter
- (computing) a disc or disk
Derived terms
- harddisk
References
- “disk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *disk.
Noun
disk m
- plate
Descendants
- Middle Low German:
- German Low German: Disk, Disch
- Plautdietsch: Desch
- German Low German: Disk, Disch
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse diskr.
Noun
disk c
- counter; table on which business is transacted
- washing-up
- dirty dishes
- (anatomy) disc
- disk drive
Declension
Synonyms
- (disk drive): hårddisk
Derived terms
- (counter): bardisk
- (washing-up): handdisk
- (dirty dishes): diskare, diskbalja, diskborste, diskho, diskmaskin, diskmedel, diskställ, frukostdisk
- (disc (anatomy)): diskbråck
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null
English
Alternative forms
- Ø (linguistics, abbreviation)
- ? (mathematics, abbreviation)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin n?llus.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /n?l/
- Rhymes: -?l
Noun
null (plural nulls)
- A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
- Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
- Something that has no force or meaning.
- (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (?), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
- (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null.
- One of the beads in nulled work.
- (statistics) Null hypothesis.
Translations
Adjective
null (comparative more null, superlative most null)
- Having no validity; "null and void"
- Insignificant.
- 1924, Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove:
- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
- 1924, Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove:
- Absent or non-existent.
- (mathematics) Of the null set.
- (mathematics) Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.
- (genetics, of a mutation) Causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
Antonyms
- antinull
- non-null
Derived terms
- null determiner
- nullary
- nullity
Verb
null (third-person singular simple present nulls, present participle nulling, simple past and past participle nulled)
- (transitive, archaic) To nullify; to annul.
- To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).
Related terms
- annul
- nulled work
See also
- nil
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Latin n?llus (“none”).
Numeral
null
- (Luserna) zero
References
- “null” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Estonian
Numeral
null
- zero
Faroese
Etymology
From Latin nullus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?l?/
- Rhymes: -?l?
Numeral
null
- zero
Noun
null n (genitive singular nuls, plural null)
- (mathematics) the numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero
Declension
German
Etymology
From the noun Null (“the number zero”), from Italian nulla, from Latin nulla, feminine singular of nullus (“no, none”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?l/
Numeral
null
- zero; nil; nought; (tennis) love (integer number between -1 and 1, denoting no quantity at all)
- (colloquial) zero; no
- Synonym: (überhaupt) kein
Coordinate terms
Adjective
null (not comparable)
- (specialist, law, chiefly predicative) null (having no validity)
Declension
Derived terms
- null und nichtig (also in common use)
Further reading
- “null” in Duden online and “null” in Duden online; cp. “null” in Duden online and “null” in Duden online
- “null” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache; cp. “Null” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nul/
Numeral
null
- zero
Further reading
- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin nullus (“no one, none, no”), from Proto-Italic *ne oinolos, from Proto-Italic *oinos (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one, single”).
Determiner
null
- no (determiner: not any)
- ha null penger - to have no money
Numeral
null
- zero, nought, nil
Noun
null m (definite singular nullen, indefinite plural nuller, definite plural nullene)
null n (definite singular nullet, indefinite plural null or nuller, definite plural nulla or nullene)
- zero (numeric symbol of zero), nought, nil
- a nobody or nonentity (derogatory about a person)
Derived terms
- nullstille
- nulltoleranse
- nullvekst
References
- “null” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin nullus
Determiner
null
- no (determiner: not any)
- ha null pengar - to have no money
Numeral
null
- zero, nought, nil
Noun
null m (definite singular nullen, indefinite plural nullar, definite plural nullane)
null n (definite singular nullet, indefinite plural null, definite plural nulla)
- zero (numeric symbol of zero), nought, nil
- a nobody or nonentity (derogatory about a person)
Derived terms
- nulltoleranse
- nullvekst
References
- “null” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
Compare German null.
Numeral
null
- zero
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