"disk" meaning in All languages combined

See disk on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /dɪsk/ Audio: en-us-disc.ogg [US], en-us-disk.ogg [US] Forms: disk [singular], disks [plural]
enPR: dĭsk Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A disk is an object that is thin, flat, and circular.
    Sense id: simple-disk-en-noun-w3U2wYAH
  2. Something that looks like a disk.
    Sense id: simple-disk-en-noun-5dAWlBIV
  3. A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.
    Sense id: simple-disk-en-noun-lHVl-sCL
  4. A floppy disk.
    Sense id: simple-disk-en-noun-cWsznbcg Categories (other): Computing
  5. A disc – either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD.
    Sense id: simple-disk-en-noun-E7YUs927 Categories (other): Computing
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "disk",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "disks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A coin is a disk of metal."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A disk is an object that is thin, flat, and circular."
      ],
      "id": "simple-disk-en-noun-w3U2wYAH",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Venus' disk blocked light from the Sun."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that looks like a disk."
      ],
      "id": "simple-disk-en-noun-5dAWlBIV",
      "raw_tags": [
        "figurative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Turn the disk over after it has finished."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record."
      ],
      "id": "simple-disk-en-noun-lHVl-sCL"
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Computing",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He still uses floppy disks from 1979."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A floppy disk."
      ],
      "id": "simple-disk-en-noun-cWsznbcg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "computing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Computing",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She burned some disks yesterday to back up the information on her computer."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A disc – either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD."
      ],
      "id": "simple-disk-en-noun-E7YUs927",
      "raw_tags": [
        "computing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "dĭsk"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪsk/"
    },
    {
      "sampa": "/dIsk/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-disc.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-disk.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "disk"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "disk",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "disks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A coin is a disk of metal."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A disk is an object that is thin, flat, and circular."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Venus' disk blocked light from the Sun."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that looks like a disk."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "figurative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Turn the disk over after it has finished."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Computing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He still uses floppy disks from 1979."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A floppy disk."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "computing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Computing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She burned some disks yesterday to back up the information on her computer."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A disc – either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "computing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "dĭsk"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪsk/"
    },
    {
      "sampa": "/dIsk/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-disc.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-disk.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "disk"
}

Download raw JSONL data for disk meaning in All languages combined (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-29 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (70a4daf and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.