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disk

A disk is an object that is thin, flat, and circular. A coin is a disk of metal. Something that looks like a disk. Venus' disk blocked light from the Sun. A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record. Turn the disk over after it has finished. A floppy disk. He still uses floppy disks from 1979. A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD. She burned some disks yesterday to back up the information on her computer.

disk

(= disc) something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky a flat circular plate (= harrow) draw a harrow over (land) (= disc) (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored (= record, disc) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

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Simple sentences

The watch on the compact disk is mine.
There is always the risk of losing all the data on your hard disk.
Why don't we just reformat the hard disk? You've been having a lot of trouble with it.
Tom copied all the files on his internal hard disk to an external hard disk.
My laptop doesn't have an optical disk drive.
Tom is using an external hard disk.
Tom asked Mary to help him reformat the hard disk.
I erased my hard disk by accident.
The hard disk was completely destroyed.
We were running out of disk space due to a configuration issue.
I've formatted your hard disk by mistake.
This computer has a floppy disk drive.
It looks like your hard disk is fragmented.
Did you give a copy of the disk to anyone?
Put the disk in the computer.
It fits on a single floppy disk.
Tom inserted a disk.
Give Tom the disk.

Movie subtitles

This little light shines against the disk reflected by the mirrors. No!
I'll go and collect Symes's pay-book, identity disk, that sort of thing.
I've always preferred disk brakes. They're better.
His watch. Identification disk.
He looks like that disk-jockey!
You'll receive a disk on each trip.
They'll download data onto your disk.
Each disk you bring home will seem more important than the last.
Switch this disk with the one in your briefcase, before you go to the Vault.
He knew he could convince you to switch their disk with his.
Rooks disk contains a search program.
When you come out of the Vault, deliver the disk to me, not Rooks.
The moment you give that disk to Rooks, is the moment he eliminates you.
Hand your disk now, please?
Of course. Use the intensifier disk. The one in your hand.
His watch. identification disk.
That your identity disk was found in her room.
You faked a slipped disk.
Then the disk on the stereo twanged off and out.
I said anybody. who thinks that a magnetic disk is gonna get us home is strictly off his rocker.
I must've dropped the disk.
Even if we were able to find a civilization that could interpret that disk. they'd still have to build us a spaceship.
That disk means nothing to you.
I'll get your disk. - Yes?
You know, that disk seems to be made of the same metal as this.
When you picked up that magnetic disk. I had to get it back.
Give me the disk and let me go.
No, I was wounded and somehow lost my identification disk.
You're going to be tuned to a disk jockey on WNEW-Bruce Wendell.
Yeah, and one thing is certain- any guy pulling a fancy caper like this isn't going to have time to sit around listening to a disk jockey.
Listen to this disk.
There we are, this piece of hair and this disk will be proof enough.
Swan can deposit another golden disk in Fort Knox.
The disk jockey.
But all he could see was a featureless disk.
After processing, the dots are stored on a magnetic disk something like a phonograph record.
The record cover bears instructions on how to hear the sounds and see the pictures encoded on the disk. Including some snapshots from the family album of a distant world.
You will each receive an identity disk.
Everything you do or learn. will be imprinted on this disk.

News and current affairs

Indeed, today you can fit more books on the hard disk of your laptop computer than in a bookstore carrying 60,000 titles.
But, worried that the US authorities would accuse it of attempting to control a new market, IBM left the Disk Operating System (DOS) for the new PCs to a tiny new company that no one saw as a threat: Microsoft.

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