Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: disk
IPA transcription: [d'ɪsk]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: disk, disc, saucer
    Meaning: something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate; "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky"
  • Synonyms: disk, disc
    Meaning: a flat circular plate
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: harrow, disk
    Meaning: draw a harrow over (land)
Usage examples
  • And what happened when you were floating before the Disk?"
  • It came from the disk of the sun, which was partly visible over the icy crest of the distant mountains.
  • It was a truncated cone, since there was no ceiling; a hot blue disk of sky cast light on the floor below.
  • To cover the sun's disk with a circular screen will not answer the purpose because of the illumination of the air all about the observer.
  • The points remained visible for not more than five minutes, during which interval they moved thirty-five thousand miles across the solar disk.
  • If, instead of a flat-iron, we use a concave metal disk about the size and shape of a watch crystal, some very interesting results may be obtained.
  • By a careful manipulation of the dropper, the disk may be filled with water which, notwithstanding the intense heat, never reaches the boiling point.
  • The patch on the screen was not a round disk, as it would have been without the prism, but was an elongated oval and was coloured at its extremities.
  • The time had at last come when only a portion of his disk would be visible for a little while above the hills, and then he would be seen no more for six months of our time.
  • On the other hand, if boiling water be dropped on the superheated disk its temperature will immediately be REDUCED to six degrees below the boiling point; thus the hot metal really cools the water.