disc

• disk (chiefly US or for magnetic media [See disk § Usage notes])

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

• enPR: dĭsk, IPA^(key): /dɪsk/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪsk

disc (plural discs)

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

   A coin is a disc of metal.

2. (anatomy) An intervertebral disc.
3. Something resembling a disc.

   Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.

   • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 300:

     [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.

4. A vinyl phonograph or gramophone record.

   Turn the disc over, after it has finished.

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

• See usage notes at the disk entry.

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

1. (agriculture) To harrow with a disc harrow.
   • 1901 October 11, “Discing Lucerne”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎^[1], volume 4, number 16, page 488:

     It is held that discing is as much value to lucerne as cultivation is to corn.

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.

   In the air, the asymmetric drag generated by a discing propeller can result in loss of control of the airplane.

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

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

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

disc m (plural discs or discos)

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

• discjòquei
• discoteca

• “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], April 2007

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

• IPA^(key): /diʃ/

disċ m

1. plate, dish

Strong a-stem:

• disċþeġn
• hūsldisċ

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

disc m

1. alternative spelling of disk

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

disc n (plural discuri)

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

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

disc n (plural discuri)

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

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