disk
//dɪsk//
Forms
- Plural
- disks
- present (v1)
- disk
- past (v2)
- disked
- past participle (v3)
- disked
- present participle
- disking
- 3rd person singular
- disks
Definitions
1.A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- A coin is a disk of metal.
2.A two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.
3.An intervertebral disc
4.Something resembling a disk.
- Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
1.To harrow.
- The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted potatoes.
- The soil is plowed and disked and then seeded with a mixture of prairie plants.
- That is alkali. Mr. Kochendorfer: I have a ten-year apple orchard that I disked last year and kept it tolerably clean this spring.
2.To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4526
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικέω (dikéō, “to hurl, to launch”).
Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and diskos.