: to cultivate with an implement (such as a harrow or plow) that turns and loosens the soil with a series of discs
Examples of disk in a Sentence
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Noun
Sure, the disk world’s physical laws seem ad hoc, but so are Euclid’s axioms.—Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2024 The search also yielded dozens of computer disks containing images of women and young girls that focused on their private parts, according to prosecutors.—Joseph Diaz, ABC News, 26 July 2024
Verb
Working each process also takes up memory pages in memory, and filling up your allotment can move memory pages to disk, from which a process really does not want to work.—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2023 How To Store Double Pie Crust Wrap and chill the pie dough disks for at least two hours, or up to two days for the freshest results.—Nancie McDermott, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for disk
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
borrowed from Latin discus "discus, kind of plate, gong" borrowed from Greek dískos "discus," in Late Greek also "dish, round mirror, the sun's disk, gong" — more at discus
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