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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disc
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
compact disc player
compact disc
▪ The new album is available on vinyl, cassette, or compact disc.
disc brakes
disc jockey
Mini Disc
platinum disc
▪ a platinum disc
slipped disc
tax disc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
compact
▪ Starting in 1993, the label plans to re-release all the Smiths albums on compact disc in chronological sequence.
▪ But this is not, thankfully, a compact disc with a theatrical agenda.
▪ It will also control lighting, curtains and the audio system with compact disc player.
▪ One often felt assaulted, as if the volume had been turned up on a cheap compact disc player.
▪ Each compact disc, cassette or record has been carefully chosen for the quality of its musical content and its recording.
▪ Seldom has so much been placed on the shoulders of a single compact disc.
▪ A display at the top of the dashboard tells you what you have selected: radio, cassette, compact disc.
▪ And a compact disc changer is available, dealer installed, for $ 650.
floppy
▪ Colin gave the wrong advice about getting floppy disc out when jammed and then I deleted the stuff off the hard disc.
▪ The results of a search can be stored on a floppy disc or printed out.
▪ Nothing, not a note, not an old article, not a floppy disc.
hard
▪ Colin gave the wrong advice about getting floppy disc out when jammed and then I deleted the stuff off the hard disc.
▪ Its other function is to take over your hard disc and encrypt all the file directories, rendering the disc unusable.
▪ When the real Mac crashes and trashes your hard disc, you can take it out on the Smack-a-Mac!
▪ Experts say on 12 October it will wipe out the hard disc of any machine it has entered.
▪ The hard disc can then be formatted before all the files are restored.
new
▪ These and other caveats prevent me from giving an unqualified recommendation to this new disc.
▪ But they have not yet standardized the audio portion of the new disc.
optical
▪ The large memory requirements suggest the use of optical disc storage.
▪ Moreover, these market figures only take account of multi-media delivered on a stand-alone optical disc platform.
▪ Today, portable optical disc players are also emerging.
single
▪ None the less, everything important is included on Sony's single disc, which thus enjoys a considerable price advantage.
▪ Seldom has so much been placed on the shoulders of a single compact disc.
▪ Compact discs are available which contain a corpus of a whole century of poetry on a single disc.
▪ Since the bike has a single-sided front swingarm, the firm was only able to fit a single front disc.
▪ Another useful resource is offered by the possibility of putting very large dictionaries on to a single compact disc.
▪ Brembo has supplied the brakes, which feature a single disc and four-pot caliper up front.
slipped
▪ He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc.
▪ He retired early from electrical work because of a slipped disc.
▪ Could it be a slipped disc?
small
▪ Hire a smaller disc or belt sander for finishing off the room edges where the big sander can not reach.
▪ A small, glowing disc swam calmly through the clear morning air trailing sparks.
▪ This species has a small central disc, and long, slender arms.
■ NOUN
brake
▪ As I rode away, I noticed that the front disc brake still faded erratically.
▪ Both the transmission controls are heavy, and the all-disc brakes need a hefty shove despite their servo.
drive
▪ It has a its own memory and processor, and X Window server software, but no disc drive.
▪ Further, the price means it isn't worth upgrading a C64 by adding Commodore's slow disc drive.
▪ The +3 is better value at £200, since this includes a built-in disc drive.
▪ Happy Chip: The 810 enhancement and back-up is a circuit board which plugs into the standard disc drive for Atari computers.
▪ Happy Computing claims that the chip will copy any disc that fits Atari's standard disc drive.
▪ How often have you wanted to peer into your disc drive to see what's inside, for example?
▪ The discs are suitable for Brother electronic models 940, 950i, 965 and 270 with disc drive.
jockey
▪ Ike, former radio disc jockey, actually kept his congregation awake on Sunday mornings.
▪ At first disc jockeys played the Kingsmen recording as a novelty, a kind of joke.
▪ It was the kind of station, and nobody tried to disguise it, where self-respecting disc jockeys were never found.
▪ Two disc jockeys would compete with each other in the clubs, taking turns to do their voice-over on the discs.
▪ Chris Sheely looked like any other disc jockey spinning songs on a Saturday morning.
▪ Jakki Brambles never had any ambitions to be a disc jockey.
▪ You knew the popularity of black disc jockeys, the power to sell various products.
player
▪ They stole a television, compact disc player, an amplifier and some speakers, worth a total of £900.
▪ One often felt assaulted, as if the volume had been turned up on a cheap compact disc player.
▪ We've fitted a compact disc player and protected it with a new security system.
▪ You might also want to add a cassette tape player or compact disc player, neither of which the tester had.
▪ It will also control lighting, curtains and the audio system with compact disc player.
▪ We designed motorized shopping carts with everything from compact disc players to built-in price scanners.
▪ Read in studio Now, imagine being able to show a feature film on your television from an ordinary compact disc player.
▪ Today, portable optical disc players are also emerging.
tax
▪ It's cheaper to get a tax disc.
■ VERB
contain
▪ Depending on the system, a disc can contain from thirty to sixty minutes' of moving pictures on each side.
▪ So you buy a compact disc containing scores of bird songs.
▪ Still, it's very good, and subscribers get a disc containing at least one font with every issue.
▪ A standard disc could contain only 25 seconds of video.
▪ The disc also contains a monthly magazine of field and classroom ideas.
slip
▪ His left leg slipped, rupturing a disc in his back.
▪ I was tremendously upset when the elder slipped a disc and spent freshman year in a full body brace.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
slip a disc
▪ I was tremendously upset when the elder slipped a disc and spent freshman year in a full body brace.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But MacLeod pulls it off, even writing 10 of the 12 songs on the disc.
▪ If you sat in the fireplace and looked up you could see a disc of sky and several iron hooks in silhouette.
▪ Some rival issues add another work and others get the symphony into one disc.
▪ The reason why we've stopped you is that there's no disc on your windscreen.
▪ The unit disc certainly ought to count as recursive!
▪ There are not many sets simpler than the unit disc!
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
disc

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
disc

Latinate spelling preferred in British English for most uses of disk (q.v.). American English tends to use it in the musical recording sense; originally of phonograph records, recently of compact discs. Hence, discophile "enthusiast for gramophone recordings" (1940).

Wiktionary
disc

n. 1 A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object. 2 (context anatomy English) An http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/intervertebral%20disc. 3 Something resembling a disc. 4 A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.

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WordNet
disc

  1. n. 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, disk, platter]

  2. something with a round shape like a flat circular plate [syn: disk, saucer]

  3. (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, disk]

  4. a flat circular plate [syn: disk]

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Wikipedia
Disc

Disc or disk (computing and American English) may refer to:

Disc (galaxy)

A disc is a component of disc galaxies, such as spiral galaxies, or lenticular galaxies.

The galactic disc is the plane in which the spirals, bars and discs of disc galaxies exist. Galactic discs tend to have more gas and dust and younger stars than galactic bulges or galactic haloes.

The galactic disc is mainly composed of gas, dust and stars. The gas and dust component of the galactic disc is called the gaseous disc. The star component of the galactic disc is called the stellar disc.

Disc (band)

Disc is an experimental group formed by Miguel Depedro ( Kid606), Jason Doerck ( J Lesser), M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel ( Matmos). The group was most active between 1997 and 1999.

To produce their sound, digital media ( DATs, CDs) were etched and painted, or used in broken players to produce new sounds. In Gaijincd4, a "bonus" nonfunctional CD was included to suggest a multimedia disc. The double LP Transfer consisted entirely of locked grooves.

Disc (magazine)

Disc was a weekly British popular music magazine, published between 1958 and 1975, when it was incorporated into Record Mirror. It was also known for periods as 'Disc Weekly ' (1964–1966) and 'Disc and Music Echo ' (1966–1972).

Disc (telefilm)

Disc is a Bangladeshi science fiction television film directed by Farhad Ahmed and produced by Rejaul Haque and Sabbir Chowdhury under the banner of Eagle Entertainment and Boomerang. The telefilm stars Ziaul Faroque Apurbo and Zakia Bari Momo is lead role while Sanj John was featured as the main antagonist. The television film was aired on NTV during Eid Ul Adha, 25 September 2015.

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Usage examples of "disc".

Upon the rug, strewn about her carelessly, their bright discs adance with reflected light, a thousand minted gold pieces caught the glint of the low sun.

While the man was preparing his pens and ink and setting a disc of red wax to soften on a sun-warmed stone, the Aedile composed in his head the letter he needed to write.

Cleveland disc jockey named Alan Freed, who had studied classical trombone before taking to the airwaves, where he introduced his listeners to the music of Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and other such exotics.

This is Aloha Willie with the top forty tunes rockin your way across the tropical airwaves with some really great sounds for you disc hounds.

The sun stood close to midday in a wan heaven, its disc seeming slightly larger than that of Sarnir above Arvel but its light muted.

The winged serpent is an Egyptian sunsymbol, mac Art, and far older than the winged disc of Atun that the saintly if impractical Pharoah Akhenatun caused to be worshiped.

When next I awoke the first thing I saw was the round disc of a sympathetic eyeglass, behind which was Good.

So after saving the file he re-saved it on a floppy disc to take to his superior, Major Bayon Karim Kitan, who would in turn, take it to his boss, OIS Director Abahar Kharrazi.

The glands on the central disc were blackened, and had ceased secreting.

Modern disc and much more efficient drum brakes, or a good combination of both, have changed that.

She lay in her bed at the Sheraton, dreading her meeting with DePalma, listening to the radio disc jockeys delight in telling Twin Citians that exposed skin could freeze in as little as sixty seconds.

Illianer, unlocked their iron-strapped coin box under the watchful eyes of their two bodyguards, bulky men with those odd beards that left the upper lip bare, in leather coats sewn with steel discs.

We shall hereafter see that solutions of these substances, when placed on the discs of leaves, do not incite inflection.

Four of these leaves were then tested by bits of meat on their discs, and three of them were found after 24 hrs.

I afterwards tested three of them by adding bits of meat to the drops which still remained on their discs, and when I examined them after 24 hrs.