disc

Alternative forms

• disk (mainly US, or 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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭsk, IPA^(key): /dɪsk/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪsk

Noun

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;

Verb

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, 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.

Anagrams

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

disc m (plural discs or discos)

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

Further reading

• “disc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diʃ/

Noun

disċ m

1. plate, dish

Noun

disc m

1. Alternative spelling of disk

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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