: to cultivate with an implement (such as a harrow or plow) that turns and loosens the soil with a series of discs
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As detailed in My Father, the BTK Killer, investigators obtained metadata from the disk that linked it to Christ Lutheran Church, where Rader was president of the church council, and revealed the user's name to be Dennis.—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025 The current version has dropped the option to encrypt files and folders directly on your local disk.—PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025 This is largely down to its value for money, the 10 disks included and its brilliant image quality.—Alexander Cox, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2025 Instead of sliding pieces into place, players bounce their disks into a grid—adding just enough unpredictability to keep everyone on their toes.—Emily Glover, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disk
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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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