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disc
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun disc has 4 senses
- disc(n = noun.artifact) disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter, record - sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove; Array has parts: acetate disk, phonograph recording disk
- disc(n = noun.shape) disk, saucer - something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate; "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky" has particulars: intervertebral disc, intervertebral disk, dot, point
- disc(n = noun.artifact) disk, magnetic disc, magnetic disk - (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored; Array has particulars: diskette, floppy, floppy disk, fixed disk, hard disc, hard disk
- disc(n = noun.artifact) disk - a flat circular plate; Array has particulars: acetate disk, phonograph recording disk, brake disk, deadeye, diaphragm, discus, saucer, frisbee, coin blank, planchet, hockey puck, puck, token
has particulars: l-p, lp, 78, seventy-eight
is a kind of audio, audio recording, sound recording
is a kind of round shape
is a kind of memory device, storage device
is a kind of circle, round, plate
OXFORD DICTIONARY
disc, n. (also disk esp. US and in sense 4)
1 a a flat thin circular object. b a round flat or apparently flat surface (the sun's disc). c a mark of this shape.
2 a layer of cartilage between vertebrae.
3 a gramophone record.
4 a (usu. disk; in full magnetic disk) a computer storage device consisting of several flat circular magnetically coated plates formed into a rotatable disc. b (in full optical disc) a smooth non-magnetic disc with large storage capacity for data recorded and read by laser.
5 a device with a pointer or rotating disc indicating time of arrival or latest permitted time of departure, for display in a parked motor vehicle.
1 a a flat thin circular object. b a round flat or apparently flat surface (the sun's disc). c a mark of this shape.
2 a layer of cartilage between vertebrae.
3 a gramophone record.
4 a (usu. disk; in full magnetic disk) a computer storage device consisting of several flat circular magnetically coated plates formed into a rotatable disc. b (in full optical disc) a smooth non-magnetic disc with large storage capacity for data recorded and read by laser.
5 a device with a pointer or rotating disc indicating time of arrival or latest permitted time of departure, for display in a parked motor vehicle.
Idiom
disc brake a brake employing the friction of pads against a disc. disk drive Computing a mechanism for rotating a disk and reading or writing data from or to it. disc harrow a harrow with cutting edges consisting of a row of concave discs set at an oblique angle. disc jockey the presenter of a selection of gramophone records of popular music, esp. in a broadcast.
Etymology
F disque or L discus: see DISCUS
THESAURUS
disc
bulletin board, card, cartridge, cassette, catalog card, electrical transcription, file, filing card, film, index card, library catalog, magnetic tape, microcard, microdot, microfiche, microfilm, motion-picture film, phonograph record, platter, record, recording, scoreboard, scorecard, scoresheet, slip, tape, tape cartridge, tape cassette, tape recording, ticker tape, transcription, videotape, wax, wire recordingROGET THESAURUS
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Exteriority
N exteriority, outside, exterior, surface, superficies, skin, superstratum, disk, disc, face, facet, extrados, excentricity, eccentricity, circumjacence, exterior, external, outer most, outward, outlying, outside, outdoor, round about, extramural, extralimitary, extramundane, superficial, skin-deep, frontal, discoid, extraregarding, excentric, eccentric, outstanding, extrinsic, ecdemic, exomorphic, externally, out, with out, over, outwards, ab extra, out of doors, extra muros, in the open air, sub Jove, sub dio, a la belle etoile, al fresco.Front
N front, fore, forepart, foreground, face, disk, disc, frontage, facade, proscenium, facia, frontispiece, anteriority, obverse (of a medal or coin), fore rank, front rank, van, vanguard, advanced guard, outpost, first line, scout, brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mut, rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore, jib, pioneer, metoposcopy, fore, anterior, front, frontal, before, in front, in the van, in advance, ahead, right ahead, forehead, foremost, in the foreground, in the lee of, before one's face, before one's eyes, face to face, vis-a-vis, front a front, formosa muta commendatio est, frons est animi janua, Human face divine, imago animi vultus est indices oculi, sea of upturned faces.
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