disc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭsk
ipa: /dɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Forms: form: discs
form: disk
raw_tags: 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.
Senses: examples: text: A coin is a disc of metal.
glosses: A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An intervertebral disc.
examples: text: Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.
text: [A] peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the Martian disc.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 300:
glosses: Something resembling a disc.
examples: text: Turn the disc over, after it has finished.
glosses: A vinyl phonograph or gramophone record.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The flat surface of an organ, as a leaf, any flat, round growth.
qualifier: disc sports
glosses: Ellipsis of flying disc; synonym of frisbee; generic name for the trademark Frisbee.
glosses: Alternative form of disk
Derived terms: sense: frisbee
english: frisbee golf
translation: frisbee golf
word: disc golf
sense: frisbee
word: time disc
sense: frisbee
english: ultimate frisbee
translation: ultimate frisbee
word: ultimate disc
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word: abrasive disc
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word: accretion disc
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word: Airy disc
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word: Alderson disc
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word: amphidisc
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word: Benham's disc
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word: bidisc
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word: brake disc
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word: circumstellar disc
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word: clutch disc
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word: compact disc
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word: compact disc drive
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word: coverdisc
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word: death disc
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word: degenerative disc disease
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word: digital versatile disc
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word: digital video disc
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word: discal
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word: disc brake
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word: disc drive
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word: discectomy
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word: discer
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word: discette
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word: discful
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word: disc horse
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word: disciferous
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word: discitis
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word: disc jockey
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word: discless
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word: disclike
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word: discmag
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word: Discman
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word: disc number
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word: discocone
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word: discoconic
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word: discogenic
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word: discogram
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word: discoid
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word: discophile
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word: discophilia
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word: discotomy
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word: disc owl
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word: disc rot
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word: discstone
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word: disc-tongued frog
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word: facial disc
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word: fixed disc
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word: fixed disc drive
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word: Flexi disc
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word: flexi disc
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word: flippy disc
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word: floppy disc
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word: floppy disc drive
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word: flying disc golf
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word: galactic disc
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word: germinal disc
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word: hard disc
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word: hard disc drive
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word: holodisc
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word: ice disc
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word: imaginal disc
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word: intervertebral disc
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word: Laserdisc
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word: laser disc
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word: magnetodisc
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word: megalodisc
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word: microdisc
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word: MiniDisc
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word: minidisc
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word: multidisc
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word: nanodisc
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word: Nebra sky disc
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word: Nipkov disc
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word: Nipkow disc
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word: optical disc
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word: optical disc drive
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word: optic disc
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word: parking disc
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word: phonodisc
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word: photodisc
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word: picture disc
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word: Poincaré disc
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word: polydisc
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word: protoplanetary disc
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word: scattered disc
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word: scattered disc object
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word: Secchi disc
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word: separating disc
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word: Siegel disc
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word: slipped disc
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word: slot-loading disc drive
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word: spinal disc herniation
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word: squamodisc
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word: sun disc
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word: tax disc
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word: tree disc
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word: trichodiscoma
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word: videodisc