Synonyms for disk
dɪskdisk

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1. disk, disc, saucernoun

   something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate

   "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky"

   Synonyms:
   dish aerial, discus, magnetic disc, saucer, phonograph recording, magnetic disk, disc, dish antenna, dish, phonograph record, platter, record

2. disk, discnoun

   a flat circular plate

   Synonyms:
   magnetic disc, saucer, phonograph recording, magnetic disk, disc, phonograph record, platter, record

3. phonograph record, phonograph recording, record, disk, disc, platternoun

   sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

   Synonyms:
   magnetic disc, saucer, phonograph recording, phonograph record, magnetic disk, book, disc, track record, criminal record, platter, record, record book

4. magnetic disk, magnetic disc, disk, discverb

   (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored

   Synonyms:
   magnetic disc, phonograph recording, platter, magnetic disk, disc, phonograph record, saucer, record

5. harrow, diskverb

   draw a harrow over (land)

   Synonyms:
   harrow

Matched Categories

1. • Circle
   • Farming
   • Plate
   • Plow
   • Round Shape
   • Sound Recording

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1. disknoun

   Synonyms:
   quoit, discus

2. disknoun

   Synonyms:
   face (of the sun, moon, &c.)

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1. List of paraphrases for "disk":

   disc, disks, discs, drive, drives, disco, diskette, pun, disque, rotors, floppy

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How to use disk in a sentence?

1. Unknown:

   I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.

2. Dheeraj Pasham:

   The fact that we can track this region of bright X-ray emission as it circles the black hole lets us track just how quickly material in the disk is spinning, that gives us information about the spin rate of the supermassive black hole itself.

3. Ron Ballouz:

   One of the biggest mysteries surrounding Phobos is its origin was it created from a giant impact onto Mars that created a debris disk around the planet that eventually coalesced into Phobos, or was it once an asteroid that was captured by Mars gravity?

4. Jack Wisdom:

   The tilt is too large to be a result of known formation processes in a protoplanetary disk or from later, large collisions.

5. Scott Sheppard:

   In the Solar System's youth, the Sun was surrounded by a rotating disk of gas and dust from which the planets were born. It is believed that a similar gas-and-dust disk surrounded Saturn during its formation, the fact that these newly discovered moons were able to continue orbiting Saturn after their parent moons broke apart indicates that these collisions occurred after the planet formation process was mostly complete and the disks were no longer a factor.