disk
noun
1. something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
- the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky
Definition categories: shape
2. a flat circular plate
Similar word(s): disc
Definition categories: man–made, circle, round, plate
3. sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
Similar word(s): disc, platter, record
Definition categories: man–made, audio
4. (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
Similar word(s): disc
Definition categories: man–made
Sentences with disk as a noun:
- A coin is a disk of metal.
- Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
- Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
- He still uses floppy disks from 1979.
- She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.