disc

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English

Alternative forms

• disk (mainly US, or for magnetic media. See usage note.)

Etymology

From French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, discus, dish, disk, and diskos.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭsk, IPA^(key): /dɪsk/
• Rhymes: -ɪsk

Noun

disc (plural discs)

1. A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

2. (anatomy) An intervertebral disc.
3. Something resembling a disc.
4. A vinyl phonograph or gramophone record.

5. (botany) The flat surface of an organ, as a leaf, any flat, round growth.
6. (disc sports) Ellipsis of flying disc; synonym of frisbee; generic name for the trademark Frisbee.
7. Alternative form of disk

Usage notes

• See usage notes at the disk entry.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

disc (third-person singular simple present discs, present participle discing, simple past and past participle disced)

1. (agriculture) To harrow with a disc harrow.
2. (aviation, of a propeller) To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airflow and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.

Anagrams

• CD-Is, CD-is, CDIs, CIDs, DCIS, DCIs, ICDs, SCID

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin discus, originally from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈdisk]

Noun

disc m (plural discs or discos)

1. disc
2. (music) clipping of disc fonogràfic
3. (computing) disk
4. (sports) discus

Derived terms

Related terms

• discjòquei
• discoteca

Further reading

• “disc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *disk, from Latin discus, originally from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diʃ/

Noun

disċ m

1. plate, dish

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Derived terms

• hūsldisċ

Descendants

• Middle English: disch, dish, disc
  • English: dish
    • Tok Pisin: dis
  • Scots: dish
  • Yola: dishe

Old Saxon

Noun

disc m

1. alternative spelling of disk

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).

Noun

disc n (plural discuri)

1. (technology) disk, disc
2. (music) disk
3. (sports) discus
4. (anatomy) disc

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Greek δίσκος (dískos), partly through a Slavic intermediate.

Noun

disc n (plural discuri)

1. dish (flat round object), especially one used in church services to collect money

Declension

See also

• placă