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disk

noun

Simple meaning

A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

Pronunciation

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disk
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IPA pronunciation (US)

ˈdɪsk

This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.

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Word Review

Definition

Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.

noun

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

  2. Something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate

    “The moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky.”

  3. geometry

    A two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.

  4. figuratively

    Something resembling a disk.

Word at a Glance

Difficulty
A2 · Elementary
Frequency
Common
Typical Use
Varies by meaning

Word Aura™

How this word commonly comes across.

Aura for this meaning

This meaning: A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

Used this way, disk is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.

Emotional tone
Neutral
Formality
Neutral
Intensity
Not strongly marked
How common
Moderately common
Connotation
Matter-of-fact
Usage feel
Neutral and straightforward

Nearby words

  • magnetic disc , rarer, so it draws attention

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More ways to use disk

  • “The moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky.”noun

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Common Patterns and Combinations

How this word naturally appears with others.

Series / removable

disk drivefloppy diskdisk storagedisk filemagnetic diskcompact disk

Other combinations

hard diskdisk space

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Word Family

Related forms, grouped by how they connect.

Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

  • disk brakenounCompound term

    Hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads.

  • disk cachenounCompound term

    A cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slower disk.

  • disk clutchnounCompound term

    A friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are disks.

  • disk controllernounCompound term

    A circuit or chip that translates commands into a form that can control a hard disk drive.

  • disk drivenounCompound term

    Computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it.

  • disk errornounCompound term

    Error resulting from malfunction of a magnetic disk.

Related words

Connected by subject or meaning, not by word formation.

  • diskettenounRelated term

    A small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit.

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Synonyms

Sense: thin or flat or circular plate

disc

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