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Picture a flat circle you could hold between two fingers — a coin, a counter, a slice cut straight across. Computers borrowed that shape for the spinning plate that stores your files, which is why one word covers both a game piece and a hard drive.
可以想成：一片可以用兩根手指夾住的圓——硬幣、棋子、橫切下來的一片。電腦沿用了這個形狀來稱呼裡面那片會轉的儲存碟，所…更多收起
可以想成：一片可以用兩根手指夾住的圓——硬幣、棋子、橫切下來的一片。電腦沿用了這個形狀來稱呼裡面那片會轉的儲存碟，所以同一個字既是遊戲裡的圓片，也是硬碟。拼法上美式寫 disk，英式常寫 disc；不過音樂光碟兩邊都習慣寫 compact disc。原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
disknoun/dɪsk/
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A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- A coin is a disk of metal.
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geometrymathematicssciencesA two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.
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Something resembling a disk.
- Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
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anatomymedicinesciencesAn intervertebral disc
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datedA vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
- Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
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agriculturebusinesslifestyleA type of harrow.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
diskverb/dɪsk/
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agriculturebusinesslifestyleTo harrow.
- That is alkali. Mr. Kochendorfer: I have a ten-year apple orchard that I disked last year and kept it tolerably clean this spring.
- The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted potatoes.
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationTo move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。