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English noun: disk

1. disk (shape) something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate


SamplesThe moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky.


Synonymsdisc, saucer


Broader (hypernym)round shape


Narrower (hyponym)dot, intervertebral disc, intervertebral disk, point

2. disk (artifact) a flat circular plate


Synonymsdisc


Broader (hypernym)circle, plate, round


Narrower (hyponym)acetate disk, brake disk, coin blank, deadeye, diaphragm, discus, Frisbee, hockey puck, phonograph recording disk, planchet, puck, saucer, token

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


Synonymsdisc, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter, record


Broader (hypernym)audio, audio recording, sound recording


Narrower (hyponym)78, L-P, LP, seventy-eight


Part holonymacetate disk, phonograph recording disk

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


Synonymsdisc, magnetic disc, magnetic disk


Broader (hypernym)memory device, storage device


Narrower (hyponym)diskette, fixed disk, floppy, floppy disk, hard disc, hard disk


Domain categorycomputer science, computing


English verb: disk

1. disk (creation) draw a harrow over (land)


Synonymsharrow


Pattern of useSomebody ----s.
Somebody ----s something


Broader (hypernym)plough, plow, turn


Domain categoryagriculture, farming, husbandry









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