# disk
## English
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικέω (dikéō, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and diskos.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: dĭsk, IPA: /dɪsk/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪsk

### Noun

disk (plural disks)
* A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
    A coin is a disk of metal.
* (figuratively) Something resembling a disk.
    Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
* (anatomy) An intervertebral disc
* (dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
    Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
* (computer hardware) Ellipsis of floppy disk.
    He still uses disks from 1979.
* (computer hardware) Ellipsis of hard disk.
* (computer hardware, nonstandard) An optical disc, such as a LaserDisc, CD, DVD, Blu-ray, or similar removable optical storage medium.
    She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.
* (agriculture) A type of harrow.
* (botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.

#### Usage notes

In most varieties of English, disk is the preferred spelling for magnetic media (hence floppy disk, hard disk, disk drive), whereas disc is preferred for optical media (hence compact disc, digital versatile disc, optical disc). For all other uses, disk is preferred in American English and acceptable in Canadian English, and disc otherwise.
Less commonly, disc is used for magnetic media (as in floppy disc and discette; similarly, disk is sometimes used for optical media, as in compact disk and optical disk.

#### Hyponyms

* boot disk
* compact disk
* fixed disk
* flippy disk
* floppy disk
* floptical disk
* hard disk
* RAM disk
* Winchester disk
* Zip disk

#### Derived terms

* accretion disk
* Airy disk
* Alderson disk
* blastodisk
* circumplanetary disk
* coverdisk
* disk access time
* diskazine
* diskcyclic
* disk drive
* diskectomy
* diskery
* diskette
* disk horse
* disk image
* disk jockey
* disklabel
* diskless
* disklike
* diskmag
* disk on key
* disk owl
* disk pack
* disk rot
* diskspace
* disk wheel
* diskzine
* fixed disk drive
* flash disk
* floppy disk drive
* flying disk
* germinal disk
* hard disk drive
* holodisk
* ice disk
* interdisk
* Jefferson disk
* magnetodisk
* microdisk
* minidisk
* multidisk
* musicdisk
* nanodisk
* Nipkov disk
* Nipkow disk
* optical disk
* optical disk drive
* optic disk
* parking disk
* photodisk
* Poincaré disk
* polydisk
* protoplanetary disk
* quasidisk
* RAID
* Secchi disk
* semidisk
* silicon disk
* slipped disk
* stellar disk
* subdisk
* sundisk
* superdisk
* time disk
* tree disk
* trochal disk
* unit disk

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: ディスク (disuku)
* → Korean: 디스크 (diseukeu)
* → Norwegian Bokmål: disk
* → Thai: ดิสก์ (dìt)
* → Turkish: disk
* → Welsh: disg

#### Translations
### Verb

disk (third-person singular simple present disks, present participle disking, simple past and past participle disked)
* (agriculture) To harrow.
** 1916, Various, Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916‎:That is alkali. Mr. Kochendorfer: I have a ten-year apple orchard that I disked last year and kept it tolerably clean this spring.
** 1948, Various, Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report‎:The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted potatoes.
** 1991 September 6, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader‎:The soil is plowed and disked and then seeded with a mixture of prairie plants.
* (aviation, of an aircraft's propeller) To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.

### Further reading

* disk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* kids, ski'd, skid

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈdɪsk]

### Noun

disk m inan
* disc, disk (thin, flat, circular plate or similar object)
    hod diskem

#### Derived terms

* diskový

#### Related terms

* disketa
* diskotéka

### Further reading

* “disk”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “disk”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Icelandic
### Noun

disk
* indefinite accusative singular of diskur

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).

### Noun

disk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural disker, definite plural diskene)
* (in a shop etc.) a counter
* (computing) a disc or disk

#### Derived terms

* harddisk

### References

* “disk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).

### Noun

disk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural diskar, definite plural diskane)
* (in a shop etc.) a counter
* (computing) a disc or disk

#### Derived terms

* harddisk

### References

* “disk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *disk.

### Noun

disk m
* plate

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German:
** German Low German: Disk, Disch
    Plautdietsch: Desch

## Portuguese
### Verb

disk
* (Brazil) Nonstandard spelling of disque (“dial”).

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse diskr.

### Noun

disk c
* counter; table on which business is transacted
* washing-up
* dirty dishes
* (anatomy) disc
* disk drive

#### Synonyms

* (disk drive): hårddisk

#### Derived terms

* (counter): bardisk
* (washing-up): handdisk
* (dirty dishes): diskare, diskbalja, diskborste, diskho, diskmaskin, diskmedel, diskställ, frukostdisk
* (disc (anatomy)): diskbråck

### Anagrams

* kids