Words / B2

DISK/dɪsk/

A disc is a flat round object; also a compact disc or a spinal disc (British spelling): a slipped disc; a compact disc. Disk (already in the dictionary) is the usual computing spelling; circle is the 2-D shape. A slipped disc featured in the medical notes. Mix-up: disc vs desk; dusk; do not write disc for a computer hard disk unless the source uses that spelling.

Meaning

A flat round object; also a compact disc or a spinal disc (British spelling; computing often disk).

Examples

• “A slipped disc featured in the medical notes; a compact disc in the archive still needs the catalogue number.”
• “An identity disc featured in the war source, which is the metal-tag sense — still name the regiment if given.”

Good to know

a compact / spinal / slipped disc; disc-shaped. Computing twin: disk. Trap: desk. Health, music archive, and history. A flat round object, a CD, or a spinal disc — UK spelling; specify.

Near in meaning

disk, circle, CD

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