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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disk
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
disk drive
floppy disk
hard disk
laser disk
magnetic disk
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
available
▪ A non-elastic limitation is the available disk storage capacity.
▪ The code has been passed out on the nets for free and made available on disks.
▪ To add a background image choose Format, Sheet, Background and choose an image from those available on your disk.
▪ Source code listings for the programs described in the book are available on disk.
▪ With luck Brix should now be doing the rounds on the bulletin boards and available from disk libraries shortly.
▪ Every telephone directory is now available on disk.
compact
▪ Some predict that eventually everyone will carry all the sequences of his genes on a compact disk.
▪ A compact disk player, rare for its day, fed Chopin and the Rolling Stones into fierce-looking, six-foot MartinLogan speakers.
▪ It enables moving pictures as well as text and graphics to be stored on compact disks.
▪ One listed his music cassettes, the second his compact disks.
▪ It uses a Wavelet algorithm for video compression and provides compact disk quality audio and broadcast quality video.
floppy
▪ This will store more than 50 times as much data as the floppy disks with the biggest storage capacity!
▪ When it succeeds, the virus then copies itself on to any more floppy disks inserted in that computer.
▪ In the absence of networking, students need to submit work on floppy disks.
▪ One of the easiest is to modify your computer so that it will not boot from a floppy disk.
▪ It is capable of running entirely from floppy disks and so allows computer users without a hard drive to produce professional scores.
▪ The whole program comes on a single floppy disk.
▪ Ten years of world wide research, held on floppy disks, had melted.
▪ Originally Word fit quite neatly on a single 400K floppy disk.
free
▪ In desperation, Dudley went back to the store where he had found the free sign-up disks and picked up another set.
hard
▪ There's no install program; you just copy the files across to the hard disk.
▪ The hard disk drive is fast, too, with its own on-board cache.
▪ A hard disk enables the microcomputer to store vast amounts of information on disk.
▪ When compression software really goes haywire, you can lose everything on your hard disk.
▪ The hard disk is also fast, without the benefit of a cache controller.
▪ And because it's a DOS-based program, it won't take up masses of hard disk space.
▪ When I first turned it on, it reported a hard disk failure.
▪ This will execute a command in every subdirectory of a hard disk.
magnetic
▪ Search times are usually slower than magnetic disks, because the reading head has to follow a track.
▪ Electronic cameras record light as a series of digital impulses on a magnetic disk.
▪ These are referred to as Media Items and include magnetic tapes, disks, etc.
optical
▪ Once documents have been scanned and indexed, they have to be saved to optical disk.
▪ See also Optical disks, Rewritable disks.
single
▪ The package is easy to use - it comes on a single disk and self-installs in a couple of minutes.
▪ A single Macintosh disk, on the other hand, could hold ten of those chapters!
▪ A single disk can contain 650 megabytes of data, equal to 200,000 typed A4 pages or 1,500 floppy disks.
▪ Even then, a single missed disk could start the whole thing over again.
▪ Windows 9x does not allow you to have multiple visible primary partitions on a single disk.
▪ Originally Word fit quite neatly on a single 400K floppy disk.
▪ The reason is simple, the program is now bigger than 800K and won't fit on a single disk!
▪ The whole program comes on a single floppy disk.
small
▪ These are simple small disks made out of magnetic material which are small enough to be carried in a briefcase.
▪ Instead, there was a series of concentric circles, surrounding a small black disk.
▪ What's more, with email everything you send and receive can be filed in a relatively small amount of disk space.
▪ You can also bake in small pancake-sized disks and store them for popping into the toaster later.
■ NOUN
computer
▪ Copy all your computer disks and update them whenever you visit your headquarters.
▪ Because each film will take up a tremendous amount of computer disk space, only one will be available at a time.
▪ It was also reported that considerable quantities of files and computer disks had been seized during the raids.
▪ The computer disk keeping record of vehicles coming in and out was later found to have been erased.
▪ It is possible to lose the entire speech off a computer disk.
▪ His publisher keeps a list on computer disk.
controller
▪ The video and disk controllers and network interfaces have been integrated directly on to the motherboard.
▪ And how do I know which cards require a disk controller?
▪ Install the disk controller and floppy disks.
drive
▪ Air is drawn in to this low pressure area primarily through the ventilation slots and also through the floppy disk drive apertures.
▪ The faster the disk drive and controller, the faster the computer.
▪ Myth-3: New disk drive technology that doesn't improve seek time can be dismissed as ineffective.
▪ The screen displays a list of the macros stored on your default disk drive.
▪ When is the 3.5-inch disk drive due for release? 4.
▪ The disk drive ground and whirred.
▪ Security features include a locking disk drive cover, locking lid and cable clamps.
▪ Then the disk drive whirred once more and the question mark evaporated.
space
▪ However, you should still separate out your data, even if you do not intend to charge users for disk space.
▪ Because each film will take up a tremendous amount of computer disk space, only one will be available at a time.
▪ However, it may sometimes be necessary to move one or other to a different device due to disk space limitations.
▪ Additional disk space is a dollar or two per megabyte per month, depending on total amount.
▪ Hard disk space required: 318k Registration brings: peace of mind!
▪ Windows software is required, along with 12 megabytes of memory and 10 megabytes of disk space.
▪ And because it's a DOS-based program, it won't take up masses of hard disk space.
▪ Multimedia titles, digital photography and other things your kids get into will eat up hard disk space.
storage
▪ Expansion in the number of users and disk storage supported are on there way.
▪ The other kind is disk storage, commonly on a hard drive or floppy disk.
▪ A non-elastic limitation is the available disk storage capacity.
▪ This will slow it down, because random-access memory is much faster than disk storage.
▪ When it comes to disk storage capacity spreadsheets don't normally take much space.
▪ The disk storage available is defined by the System Supervisor for each lexicographer.
▪ Both instruments have automatic setting of wavelength, bandwidth and gas flows, video displays, disk storage and full alpha-numeric keyboard.
■ VERB
copy
▪ The file could be copied to another disk if space is a problem on the current working disk.
▪ You write a memo on the one in the office, copy it to disk and take it home.
▪ The cost of copying a disk of software or a tape of music is a fraction of the cost of the product.
cover
▪ Other species of Ophiolebes species have a thickened skin covering the disk and to a certain extent the arm spines.
include
▪ A sample project is included on the system disk and this may be viewed.
▪ This will include disk compression, which will ease the space problem on your Compaq portable.
▪ Security features include a locking disk drive cover, locking lid and cable clamps.
▪ These are referred to as Media Items and include magnetic tapes, disks, etc.
save
▪ Once documents have been scanned and indexed, they have to be saved to optical disk.
▪ If you already started the document and saved it on the disk, recall it for editing or addition.
▪ I can either speak what I have written or save it on disk.
▪ You can edit a new document as you type it or an existing one that is already saved on the disk.
▪ The leaderboard keeps track of the games played and scores which can be saved to disk at the end of each game.
▪ If you enter a document name, the sorted list will be saved on the disk under that name.
▪ This can be saved to disk, displayed on your computer or included in documents.
store
▪ It enables moving pictures as well as text and graphics to be stored on compact disks.
▪ You can combine, or merge, documents that are stored separately on the disk.
▪ For example: a file is to be stored on a 3380 disk, fourteen records per track, starting at cylinder 23.
▪ The screen displays a list of the macros stored on your default disk drive.
▪ These sub-dictionaries are stored on disk and are read in as required.
▪ Macros stored on disk are useful when you will use a series of keystrokes in many different documents.
▪ He then said that the program would not have been patentable had it been stored on a floppy disk.
▪ The file will be stored on disk line by line, with a carriage return after each line.
use
▪ It can be used on a hard disk computer or a floppy disk type with two disk drives.
write
▪ If no data has actually been written to disk in the meantime, further speed increases are gained.
▪ The image is then written to a target disk at high speed and verified if required.
▪ The read channel retrieves data stored on the disk and writes to the disk.
▪ The message is initially held in memory, and when the call is finished is written to disk.
▪ A master disk can be read into memory and once there can be written out to blank disks many times.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Each player chooses a coloured disk and places it on the board in the space marked 'go'.
▪ He gazed up at the pale yellow disk of the moon.
▪ When over half the moon's disk is visible, we have a "gibbous" moon.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Books on floppy disk are being targeted at the business market, where there are multitudes of personal computers in use.
▪ However, many disk writes are shortly followed by another to the same sector.
▪ In 1995, the stock market smashed more records than a disgruntled disk jockey.
▪ It was far too bright to be a star, but one could look directly at its tiny disk without discomfort.
▪ Originally Word fit quite neatly on a single 400K floppy disk.
▪ The disk is very delicate and often damaged particularly in the centre.
▪ This occurs in middle-aged and elderly individuals, but soft disk herniation also may occur in young adults.
▪ Tutorials on disk are the latest way to get to grips with problem areas.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disk

Disk \Disk\ (d[i^]sk), n. [L. discus, Gr. di`skos. See Dish.]

  1. A discus; a quoit.

    Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart.
    --Pope.

  2. A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.

  3. (Astron.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.

  4. (Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.

  5. (Bot.)

    1. The whole surface of a leaf.

    2. The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower.

    3. A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil.

  6. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. The anterior surface or oral area of c[oe]lenterate animals, as of sea anemones.

    2. The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk.

    3. In owls, the space around the eyes.

      Disk engine, a form of rotary steam engine.

      Disk shell (Zo["o]l.), any species of Discina.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disk

American English preferred spelling, 1660s, "round flat surface," from Latin discus "quoit, discus, disk," from Greek diskos "disk, quoit, platter," related to dikein "throw," from PIE *dik-skos-, from root *deik- "to show, pronounce solemnly; also in derivatives referring to the directing of words or objects" [Watkins]; see diction.\n

\nSense of "phonograph disk" is 1888; computing sense is from 1947. Disk jockey first recorded 1941; dee-jay is from 1955; DJ is 1961; video version veejay is 1982. Disk-drive is from 1952.

Wiktionary
disk

n. 1 A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object. 2 (context figuratively English) Something resembling a disk. 3 (context anatomy English) An http://en.wikipedi

  1. org/wiki/intervertebral%20disc. 4 (context dated English) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record. 5 (context computing English) A floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage. 6 (context computing nonstandard English) A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium. 7 (context agriculture English) A harrow. 8 (context botany English) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens. v

  2. (context agriculture English) to harrow

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WordNet
disk

v. draw a harrow over (land) [syn: harrow]

disk

  1. n. something with a round shape like a flat circular plate [syn: disc, saucer]

  2. a flat circular plate [syn: disc]

  3. sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves [syn: phonograph record, phonograph recording, record, disc, platter]

  4. (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored [syn: magnetic disk, magnetic disc, disc]

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Wikipedia
Disk (mathematics)

In geometry, a disk (also spelled disc) is the region in a plane bounded by a circle. A disk is said to be closed if it contains the circle that constitutes its boundary, and open if it does not.

Disk (album)
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Usage examples of "disk".

Earth was new again, a dim reddish disk beside the blazing sun, Karpal rose to his feet and swung his arms cautiously, checking that none of his actuators had been weakened by thermal stress.

The butler tried hurling his tray at her, from clear across the pool, but the metal disk sailed in an airfoil curve and only smashed a window.

There are as many of these alphabets as there are positions of his disk, and this multiplicity means that Alberti here devised the first polyalphabetic cipher.

The archegonia are protected by being sunk in depressions of the disk or by a special two-lipped involucre.

Then me, Denster, and Elana spend the hours before dawn filling mail packages with audiocassettes, paper printouts, disks, and Mel seals.

It had been inside the HyperCray that Sergei Iyevenski and his team of bioorganic chemists simulated the process of growing a perfect molecular lattice prior to spending precious investment dollars running hybrid disks through the helifurnaces in the process area.

While I watched it squirted propellent from its blowhole, floated toward the flat of the disk.

It was by far the brightest light in the sky, except for the chill shrunken golfball of the Sun behind them, but it still showed no disk to the naked eye.

Whether these planets are the remnants of an earlier planetary system that somehow survived the supernova explosion that produced the pulsar, or whether they formed from the resulting circumstellar accretion disk subsequent to the supernova explosion, we do not know.

It was quite similar to the standard Legion eagle, but it bore a single disk, marked with the eye of Horus, rather than the civitas and the laurels.

Inside this disk, and the second that soon appeared, would be the original tissue samples from which the clonal matrixes had been grown.

It looked like a tech lab, with lots of comps, and a stack of rainbow disks was visible in an open desk drawer.

You may immediately roll out both crusts, or wrap each disk in plastic and refrigerate for 15 to 30 minutesif this is more convenient or if the kitchen is very warm or if you have used lard and butter as your shortening.

Hauled along by a network of mag-beams converging from a score of space tugs came the Conference Disk, two hectometers in diameter and a decameter thick at its hub.

Sleeve was a cylindrical recess located at the axis of the southern part of the Spindle, into which a rotating extension of north Spindle projected through the Decoupler disk.