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noun

Disk n. (Written also disc)

A discus; a quoit. "Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart."

A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.

(Astron.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.

(Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.

(Bot.)

(a)

The whole surface of a leaf.

(b)

The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower.

(c)

A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil.

(Zool.)

(a)

The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones.

(b)

The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk.

(c)

In owls, the space around the eyes.

Disk engine, a form of rotary steam engine.

Disk shell (Zool.), any species of Discina.

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Etymology of 'Disk'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disk" Quotes from Famous Books

... voices died away down the village street, and Marcia ventured forth from her retreat. The moon was just rising and came up a glorious burnished disk, silhouetting her face as she stood a moment listening to the stirring of a bird among the branches. It was her will to-night to be alone and let her fancies wander where they would. The beauty and the mystery of a ...

— Marcia Schuyler • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

... thing of perfect beauty, and not a withered blossom was to be seen. The immense corollas varied in color from a deep rose crimson to a pink as pale as that of a blush rose. Some were just opening, others were half open, and others wide open, showing the crowded golden stamens and the golden disk in the centre. From far off the deep rose pink of the glorious blossoms is to be seen, and their beauty carried me back to the castle moats of Yedo, and to many a gilded shrine in Japan, on which the lotus blooms as an emblem of purity, ...

— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)

... in early June, the brass disk of the sun-dial had begun its record of happy hours, and still Olivia toiled with unabated zeal at her garden, the rose of health blooming ever brighter in her face, a great sense of satisfaction and approval took possession of her father's mind. But he only remarked, ...

— A Bookful of Girls • Anna Fuller

... reptile, while those nations that worship the natural sun in the heavens are the noblest style of barbaric people. But whatever be the difference of physiognomy, and whatever the difference of temperament, the physiologist tells us that after careful analysis he finds out that the plasma and the disk in the human blood have the same characteristics: so that if you should put twenty men from twenty nationalities abreast in line of battle, and a bullet should fly through the hearts of the twenty men, the blood ...

— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage

... on the rim of the world, a golden disk under a wind-blown sky. It was very cold, but she was warm in her red cloak, he in his fur-lined ...

— The Tin Soldier • Temple Bailey

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