disc

See also: DISC, disc., Disc., and dísc

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos)der.

Latin discusbor.

French disquebor.

English disc

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.

   • 1847, editorial staff, “Improvement in Water Taps, Cister Valves, &c. ”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 68:

     ; the top one is acted on by the spindle and disc d, moved by the lever e;

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

Usage notes

• See usage notes at the disk entry.

Derived terms

frisbee

• disc golf (frisbee golf)
• recovery disc
• time disc
• ultimate disc (ultimate frisbee)

other terms

• abrasive disc
• accretion disc
• Airy disc
• Alderson disc
• amphidisc
• Benham's disc
• bidisc
• brake disc
• circumstellar disc
• clutch disc
• compact disc
• compact disc drive
• coverdisc
• death disc
• degenerative disc disease
• digital versatile disc
• digital video disc
• discal
• disc brake
• disc drive
• discectomy
• discer
• discette
• discful
• disc horse
• disciferous
• disc image
• discitis
• disc jockey
• discless
• disclike
• discmag
• Discman
• disc number
• discocone
• discoconic
• discogenic
• discogram
• discoid
• discophile
• discophilia
• discotomy
• disc owl
• disc rot
• discstone
• disc-tongued frog
• facial disc
• fixed disc
• fixed disc drive
• flexi disc
• Flexi disc
• flippy disc
• floppy disc
• floppy disc drive
• flying disc golf
• galactic disc
• germinal disc
• hard disc
• hard disc drive
• holodisc
• ice disc
• imaginal disc
• intervertebral disc
• Laserdisc
• laser disc
• lip disc
• magnetodisc
• megalodisc
• microdisc
• minidisc
• MiniDisc
• multidisc
• nanodisc
• Nebra sky disc
• Nipkov disc
• Nipkow disc
• optical disc
• optical disc drive
• optic disc
• parking disc
• pelvic disc
• phonodisc
• photodisc
• picture disc
• Poincaré disc
• polydisc
• protoplanetary disc
• scattered disc
• scattered disc object
• Secchi disc
• separating disc
• Siegel disc
• slipped disc
• slot-loading disc drive
• spinal disc herniation
• squamodisc
• sun disc
• tax disc
• tree disc
• trichodiscoma
• videodisc

Translations

disk — see disk

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^[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.

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

disc m (plural discs or discos)

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

Derived terms

• disc compacte
• disc d'arranc
• disc dur
• disc flexible
• disc fonogràfic
• disc òptic
• punxadiscos

Related terms

• discjòquei
• discoteca

Further reading

• “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

Old English

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

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	disċ	discas
accusative	disċ	discas
genitive	disċes	disca
dative	disċe	discum

Derived terms

• disċþeġn
• hūsldisċ

Descendants

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

Old Saxon

Noun

disc m

1. alternative spelling of disk

Romanian

Etymology 1

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

Noun

disc n (plural discuri)

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

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	disc	discul	discuri	discurile
genitive-dative	disc	discului	discuri	discurilor
vocative	discule		discurilor

Etymology 2

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

Noun

disc n (plural discuri)

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

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	disc	discul	discuri	discurile
genitive-dative	disc	discului	discuri	discurilor
vocative	discule		discurilor

See also

• placă