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.