disk
pronunciation
How to pronounce disk in British English:
UK [dɪsk]
How to pronounce disk in American English:
US [dɪsk]
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- Noun:
- something with a round shape like a flat circular plate
- a flat circular plate
- sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves
- (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
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- Verb:
- draw a harrow over (land)
Word Origin
- disk (n.)
- American English preferred spelling, 1660s, "round flat surface," from Latin discus "quoit, discus, disk," from Greek diskos "disk, quoit, platter," related to dikein "throw," from PIE *dik-skos-, from root *deik- "to show, pronounce solemnly; also in derivatives referring to the directing of words or objects" [Watkins]; see diction. Sense of "phonograph disk" is 1888; computing sense is from 1947. Disk jockey first recorded 1941; dee-jay is from 1955; DJ is 1961; video version veejay is 1982. Disk-drive is from 1952.
Example
- 1. How about automatic weekly disk defragmentation or disk cleanup ?
- 2. And it 's why yahoo gives away disk drive space .
- 3. Planets form from a disk of gas and dust swirling around a young star .
- 4. Older stars reside in the bulge at the center of the galactic disk .
- 5. The first will wipe the disk clean and you 'll need to re-install your applications .