disc

«disc» in Mova's school dictionary: a flat, thin, round object — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a disc, discs; American spelling disk)

meaning for a pupil

1) A disc is a flat, thin, round object. tree →

2) A disc is a round flat object used to store music, films or computer data, such as a CD or DVD. tree →

3) A disc is one of the small pads of tough material between the bones of your spine. tree →

4) The disc of the sun or moon is its round, bright face as seen in the sky. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths, a disc is the flat round area inside a circle. In science, the Sun and Moon look like discs in the sky; there are discs in the backbone. In everyday life and PE, children throw a flying disc (frisbee). Phrases: a flying disc, a compact disc, a slipped disc, a disc of light.

examples

• The full Moon looked like a silver disc. tree →
• Put the disc into the DVD player. tree →
• We threw a plastic disc across the park. tree →
• Cut a disc of paper for the lid. tree →
• Grandad has a slipped disc in his back. tree →
• The medal was a gold disc on a ribbon. tree →

note

Countable: a disc, discs. Spelling: British «disc», American «disk»; in computing «disk» is used everywhere for hard disks, but «disc» for CDs and DVDs. In maths, a circle is the round line; a disc is the whole flat shape inside it.

In the corpora

• Telescopes such as ALMA in Chile have photographed dusty discs around young stars where new planets are forming right now.
• The disc of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across but only about 1,000 light years thick in most places.
• Alessandro Volta made the first battery in 1800 from a pile of metal discs and cloth soaked in salty water.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «disc» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.