: to cultivate with an implement (such as a harrow or plow) that turns and loosens the soil with a series of discs
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Noun
Pat the dough into a 4-inch disk, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least an hour (and up to 48 hours).—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025 Phosphorus stars are predominantly found in the Milky Way’s inner galactic halo and thick disk, indicating that their distribution is not location-specific, Maren Brauner, a PhD student at Spain’s Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Universidad de La Laguna, told me via email.—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
Working each process also takes up memory pages in memory, and filling up your allotment can move memory pages to disk, from which a process really does not want to work.—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2023 How To Store Double Pie Crust Wrap and chill the pie dough disks for at least two hours, or up to two days for the freshest results.—Nancie McDermott, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for disk
Word History
Etymology
Noun
borrowed from Latin discus "discus, kind of plate, gong" borrowed from Greek dískos "discus," in Late Greek also "dish, round mirror, the sun's disk, gong" — more at discus
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