Noun: disc
Sample Sentences
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A coin is a disc of metal.
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; the top one is acted on by the spindle and disc d, moved by the lever e; [1847, editorial staff, “Improvement in Water Taps, Cister Valves, &c. ”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 68:]
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Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.
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[A] peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the Martian disc. [1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 300:]
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Turn the disc over, after it has finished.
Nouns inflected like disc
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos)der.
3. Latin discusbor.
4. French disquebor.
5. English disc
6. From French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, discus, dish, disk, and diskos. See: French Nouns '
disque', Latin Nouns '
discus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
δίσκος'.
Verbs referencing "disc"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
disk, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
disk.