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variants:
or disc
Definition of disk
(Entry 1 of 2)
1a
: the seemingly flat figure of a celestial body
the solar disk
2
: any of various rounded and flattened animal anatomical structures
especially
: intervertebral disk — compare slipped disk
3
: the central part of the flower head of a typical composite made up of closely packed tubular flowers
4
: a thin circular object: such as
a
usually disc
: a phonograph record
b
: a round flat plate coated with a magnetic substance on which data for a computer is stored
5
usually disc
: one of the concave circular steel tools with sharpened edge making up the working part of a disc harrow or plow
also
: an implement employing such tools
disk
verb
variants:
or disc
disked
or disced;
disking
or discing;
disks
or discs
Definition of disk (Entry 2 of 2)
: to cultivate with an implement (such as a harrow or plow) that turns and loosens the soil with a series of discs
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Other Words from disk
Noun
disklike
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adjective
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adjective
Examples of disk in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Tucker’s ideas involve bold and exquisite visual lines and also technological advances, including rear-engine design, disk brakes, fuel injection, and a wide range of such safety features as seat belts, shatterproof glass, and interior padding. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, "What to Stream: “Tucker: The Man and His Dream,” a Slyly Personal Francis Ford Coppola Film," 2 Aug. 2019 The pipe typically features a butterfly valve—which is designed to regulate the flow of liquids or air—that has a rotating disk set on an axis. — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, "Wave Pool Suffers Huge Malfunction, Injures 44 People," 1 Aug. 2019 Many pu'er and dark teas come packed in bricks or disks of varying sizes. — Erin Booke, Dallas News, "How Dallas is dipping into the world of dark, funky, fermented teas," 26 July 2019 What Bell visitors can see from that collection is a 6-inch lunar sample disk that contains lunar rock and lunar soil encapsulated in clear Lucite. — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, "Bell Museum celebrates 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 with public viewing of moon rocks," 16 July 2019 In other cases, the hacker can steal a file from the computer's disk called the Security Account Manager, or SAM, which contains a list of the network's hashed passwords. — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, "Hacker Lexicon: What Is Credential Dumping?," 7 July 2019 The recording was released on the triple-disk Woodstock soundtrack, which topped the Billboard 200 for four weeks in 1970. — Paul Grein, Billboard, "14 Award-Winning Songs that Tell the American Story," 4 July 2019 The Chilean government is expecting at least 400,000 visitors, all eager to catch a glimpse of totality — the moment when the sun’s bright disk is completely obscured. — NBC News, "Total solar eclipse will darken skies over South America next week," 27 June 2019 What’s more, a recent paper argues that one of these planets is surrounded by its own swirling disk of gas and dust, the kind of structure thought to hatch large moons. — Quanta Magazine, "A Close Look at Newborn Planets Reveals Hints of Infant Moons," 16 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Size: Disk up to 0.7 inch (1.7 centimeters) wide; stalk up to 0.3 inch (0.8 centimeter) tall IUCN Red List Status: — National Geographic, "8 Real-Life ‘Fantastic Beasts’ and Where to Find Them," 18 Nov. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'disk.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for disk
disk
noun
variants:
or disc \ ˈdisk \
Kids Definition of disk
1
: something that is or appears to be flat and round
3
: a round, thin, flat plate coated with a magnetic substance on which data for a computer is stored
4
usually disc
: a phonograph record
disk
noun
variants:
or disc \ ˈdisk
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Medical Definition of disk
: any of various rounded or flattened anatomical structures: as
a
: a mammalian blood cell
b
: blind spot
c
: intervertebral disk — see slipped disk
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