Disk
noun
A flat, thin, round object.
He threw the disk like a Frisbee.
Often appears as...
- disk drive
- hard disk
noun
The background area in an image or a graph.
The sun was setting behind the black disk of the island.
Often appears as...
- disk of the sun
- optical disk
noun
A computer storage device like a CD or DVD.
My computer does not have a disk drive.
Often appears as...
- floppy disk
- disk drive
Usage tips
Technical
noun
An intervertebral disk (a piece of cartilage between the vertebrae).
The accident caused a slipped disk in his spine.
Often appears as...
- slipped disk
- herniated disk
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Technical
noun
The disk of a plant or a flower.
The central disk of the sunflower is made up of numerous small flowers.
Often appears as...
- disk flowers
- floral disk
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Technical
noun
A flat, thin, round object.
He threw the disk like a Frisbee.
Often appears as...
- disk drive
- hard disk
noun
The background area in an image or a graph.
The sun was setting behind the black disk of the island.
Often appears as...
- disk of the sun
- optical disk
noun
A computer storage device like a CD or DVD.
My computer does not have a disk drive.
Often appears as...
- floppy disk
- disk drive
Usage tips
Technical
noun
An intervertebral disk (a piece of cartilage between the vertebrae).
The accident caused a slipped disk in his spine.
Often appears as...
- slipped disk
- herniated disk
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The disk of a plant or a flower.
The central disk of the sunflower is made up of numerous small flowers.
Often appears as...
- disk flowers
- floral disk
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Shape
Refers to items resembling a flat, circular plate, often used casually.
She decorated the room with colorful paper disks.
Pro Tip 2/3Sporting Goods
Used in sports like discus or ultimate frisbee to describe the object thrown.
He excelled at throwing the disk, breaking his previous record.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Digital
Not to be confused with digital storage; can be any round flat object.
The potter shaped the clay into a perfect disk.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Shape
Refers to items resembling a flat, circular plate, often used casually.
She decorated the room with colorful paper disks.
Pro Tip 2/3Sporting Goods
Used in sports like discus or ultimate frisbee to describe the object thrown.
He excelled at throwing the disk, breaking his previous record.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Digital
Not to be confused with digital storage; can be any round flat object.
The potter shaped the clay into a perfect disk.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Shape
Refers to items resembling a flat, circular plate, often used casually.
She decorated the room with colorful paper disks.
Pro Tip 2/3Sporting Goods
Used in sports like discus or ultimate frisbee to describe the object thrown.
He excelled at throwing the disk, breaking his previous record.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Digital
Not to be confused with digital storage; can be any round flat object.
The potter shaped the clay into a perfect disk.
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Jedidah Isler: How I...
shown here in blue. Some of that material is slingshotted around the black hole and accelerated to insanely high speeds in the jet, shown here in white. Although the blazar system is rare, the process by which nature pulls in material via a disk, and then flings some of it out via a jet, is more common.
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The three different ways...
Its placenta, a solid disk of blood-rich tissue, attaches to the wall of the uterus to support the developing embryo. The placenta is what keeps the calf alive during pregnancy. Directly connected to the mother's blood supply, it funnels nutrients and oxygen straight into the calf's body
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and has a diameter about the distance between the earth and our sun. Because black holes are invisible, the only way for scientists to detect and study them is to observe their effect on nearby matter. This includes accretion disks, a disk of particles that form when gases and dust
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The freakonomics of...
having the windows shot out of his car, having the police break into his apartment and steal his computer disks -- you name it. But ultimately, the story has a happy ending for Sudhir, who became one of the most respected sociologists in the country. And especially for me,
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The beauty of data...
sights is the fastest it has the same bandwidth as a computer network then you have touch about the speed of a USB key and then you have hearing and smell which is the throughput of a hard disk and then you have poor old taste which is like rarely the throughput of a
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Unpacking the nuts and...
transaction anonymously out over the Bitcoin network which posts it to the Bitcoin general ledger on everyone's computer okay the big challenge with digital money because this is not the first digital money stored on your computer's hard disk has always been
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Eye vs. camera - Michael...
I'm not going to hypnotize you. But are you starting to see colors in the rings? If so, your eyes are playing tricks on you. The disk was only ever black and white. You see, your eyes don't always capture the world as a video camera would.
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Pointing to the future...
There were no graphics routines. There were no mouse drivers. So it was a necessity. But in the quarter-century since then, we've seen all of the fundamental supporting technologies go berserk. So memory capacity and disk capacity
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A burial practice that...
would go back into protecting and managing the land. There are no headstones and no graves in the typical sense. The graves are scattered about the property under elegant mounds, marked only by a rock or a small metal disk,
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Coral Gardening PIPE South...
will be replanted on fresh disks while others will be returned to the reef if replicated coral gardening could help restore reefs throughout the Pacific but its biggest success may be in sowing the
Video examples
Jedidah Isler: How I...
shown here in blue. Some of that material is slingshotted around the black hole and accelerated to insanely high speeds in the jet, shown here in white. Although the blazar system is rare, the process by which nature pulls in material via a disk, and then flings some of it out via a jet, is more common.
Video examples
The three different ways...
Its placenta, a solid disk of blood-rich tissue, attaches to the wall of the uterus to support the developing embryo. The placenta is what keeps the calf alive during pregnancy. Directly connected to the mother's blood supply, it funnels nutrients and oxygen straight into the calf's body
Video examples
Black Holes 101 PIPE...
and has a diameter about the distance between the earth and our sun. Because black holes are invisible, the only way for scientists to detect and study them is to observe their effect on nearby matter. This includes accretion disks, a disk of particles that form when gases and dust
Video examples
The freakonomics of...
having the windows shot out of his car, having the police break into his apartment and steal his computer disks -- you name it. But ultimately, the story has a happy ending for Sudhir, who became one of the most respected sociologists in the country. And especially for me,
Video examples
The beauty of data...
sights is the fastest it has the same bandwidth as a computer network then you have touch about the speed of a USB key and then you have hearing and smell which is the throughput of a hard disk and then you have poor old taste which is like rarely the throughput of a
Video examples
Unpacking the nuts and...
transaction anonymously out over the Bitcoin network which posts it to the Bitcoin general ledger on everyone's computer okay the big challenge with digital money because this is not the first digital money stored on your computer's hard disk has always been
Video examples
Eye vs. camera - Michael...
I'm not going to hypnotize you. But are you starting to see colors in the rings? If so, your eyes are playing tricks on you. The disk was only ever black and white. You see, your eyes don't always capture the world as a video camera would.
Video examples
Pointing to the future...
There were no graphics routines. There were no mouse drivers. So it was a necessity. But in the quarter-century since then, we've seen all of the fundamental supporting technologies go berserk. So memory capacity and disk capacity
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A burial practice that...
would go back into protecting and managing the land. There are no headstones and no graves in the typical sense. The graves are scattered about the property under elegant mounds, marked only by a rock or a small metal disk,
Video examples
Coral Gardening PIPE South...
will be replanted on fresh disks while others will be returned to the reef if replicated coral gardening could help restore reefs throughout the Pacific but its biggest success may be in sowing the
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Michio Kaku
American Physicist
Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we will understand dark matter, perhaps test string theory, find planets which can harbor life, and maybe have Brain 2.0, i.e. our consciousness on a disk which will survive even after we die.
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Ridley Scott
British Director
I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out.
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Ella Maillart
Swiss Writer
Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.
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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
American Scientist
To primitive man, the sky was wonderful, mysterious and awesome, but he could not even dream of what was within the golden disk or silver points of light so far beyond his reach.
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B. B. King
American Musician
I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.
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Bill Gates
American Businessman
The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
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Fran Lebowitz
American Journalist
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Debra Fischer
American Scientist
There may be hundreds of small seed planets - or planetesimals - which grow in the disk of matter around a star.
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Peter Sunde
Swedish Businessman
I started off copying disks on my computer when I was eight or nine.
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Steve Wozniak
American Businessman
Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.
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Michio Kaku
American Physicist
Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we will understand dark matter, perhaps test string theory, find planets which can harbor life, and maybe have Brain 2.0, i.e. our consciousness on a disk which will survive even after we die.
Quote examples
Ridley Scott
British Director
I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out.
Quote examples
Ella Maillart
Swiss Writer
Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.
Quote examples
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
American Scientist
To primitive man, the sky was wonderful, mysterious and awesome, but he could not even dream of what was within the golden disk or silver points of light so far beyond his reach.
Quote examples
B. B. King
American Musician
I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.
Quote examples
Bill Gates
American Businessman
The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
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Fran Lebowitz
American Journalist
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Debra Fischer
American Scientist
There may be hundreds of small seed planets - or planetesimals - which grow in the disk of matter around a star.
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Peter Sunde
Swedish Businessman
I started off copying disks on my computer when I was eight or nine.
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Steve Wozniak
American Businessman
Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.
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