Disc

Noun

 * 1) A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
 * A coin is a disc of metal.
 * 1)  An intervertebral disc.
 * 2) Something resembling a disc.
 * Venus' disc cut off light from the Sun.
 * 1) A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.
 * Turn the disc over, after it has finished.

Adjectives
flat; brilliant; polished; keen; turned; crude.

Thesaurus
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 recording

Alternative forms

 * disk mainly US, or for magnetic media. See usage note.

Etymology
Latin discus through French disque

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: диск
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: δίσκος (diskos)


 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: disko
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: disc
 * Russian: диск (disk)
 * Spanish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Greek:
 * Romanian: disc
 * Russian: диск (disk)


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Greek:
 * Romanian: disc
 * Russian: диск (disk)


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Greek:
 * Romanian: disc, placă de gramofon
 * Russian: диск (disk), пластинка (plastínka)

Anagrams

 * DCIs, DCIS

Etymology
From < Latin discus. Cognate with Old High German tisc (German Tisch ‘table’), Old Saxon disk (Dutch dis ‘table’), Old Norse diskr ‘plate’.

Noun

 * 1) plate, bowl

Descendants

 * English: dish