Definitions for DISCdɪsk

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

discdɪsk(n.)

  1. Category: Common Vocabulary, Hi-Fi and Audio

    Ref: Also, disk. 3

  2. Category: Common Vocabulary, Computers

    Ref: disk (defs. 1, 2, 4–8). 1 2 4 5 6 7 8

  3. Category: Common Vocabulary

    Ref: disk (def. 10). 12

Origin of disc:

see disk

disc.

  1. discount.

  2. discovered.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. phonograph record, phonograph recording, record, disk, disc, platter(noun)

    sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

  2. disk, disc, saucer(noun)

    something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate

    "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky"

  3. magnetic disk, magnetic disc, disk, disc(noun)

    (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored

  4. disk, disc(noun)

    a flat circular plate

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. disc(noun)ɪsk

    a disk

  2. disc(noun)ɪsk

    a round flat object

    to cut out a cardboard disk

  3. discɪsk

    a plastic disk for storing computer information, music, etc.

    blank disks; information stored on disk

  4. discɪsk

    a piece of strong material between the bones in sb's back

    ***a slipped disk

Wiktionary

  1. disc(Noun)

    A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

    A coin is a disc of metal.

  2. disc(Noun)

    An intervertebral disc.

  3. disc(Noun)

    Something resembling a disc.

    Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.

  4. disc(Noun)

    A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.

    Turn the disc over, after it has finished.

  5. Origin: Latin discus through French disque

Webster Dictionary

  1. Disc(noun)

    a flat round plate

  2. Disc(noun)

    a circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk


Translations for DISC

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

disk(noun)

a flat, thin, circular object

From the earth, the full moon looks like a silver disc.

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