disc
pronunciation
How to pronounce disc in British English:
UK [dɪsk]
How to pronounce disc in American English:
US [dɪsk]
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- Noun:
- sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves
- something with a round shape like a flat circular plate
- (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
- a flat circular plate
Word Origin
- disc
- disc: [17] Disc comes ultimately from Greek dískos ‘quoit’, a derivative of the verb dikein ‘throw’. This passed into Latin as discus, adopted by English in the 17th century in its original athletic sense. The most salient semantic feature of the discus was perhaps its shape, and it was this that English took over in the form disc (either adapted from Latin or borrowed from French disque). The spelling disk is preferred in American English, and it is the standard form used for ‘disc-shaped computer storage device’. Other English words ultimately derived from Latin discus are dais, desk, and dish.=> dais, desk, dish
- disc (n.)
- Latinate spelling preferred in British English for most uses of disk (q.v.). American English tends to use it in the musical recording sense; originally of phonograph records, recently of compact discs. Hence, discophile "enthusiast for gramophone recordings" (1940).
Example
- 1. Toshiba said it would start manufacturing blu-ray disc players .
- 2. In practice , multi column article pages are as useful as heavy dial disc cellphones .
- 3. Under the rug was a disc with four screws .
- 4. Enough to store five seasons of a television drama , in high-definition video , on one disc .
- 5. Flat disc records began replacing the cylinder for reproducing recorded sound as early as 1887 .