disc

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

disc [disc discs] (also disk especially in NAmE)BrE [dɪsk] NAmE [dɪsk] noun
1. a thin flat round object
• He wears an identity disc around his neck.
2. = ↑CD
• This recording is available online or on disc.
3. (BrE)a disk for a computer
4. (old-fashioned) = ↑record (²)
5. a structure made of ↑cartilage between the bones of the back
• He's been off work with a slipped disc (= one that has moved from its correct position, causing pain).
See also: ↑disk

Word Origin:
mid 17th cent. (originally referring to the seemingly flat circular form of the sun or moon): from French disque or Latin discus from Greek diskos.

Example Bank:
•He inserted the disc into the machine.
•He is one of the greatest opera singers on disc.
•He's in bed with a slipped disc.
•I ejected the disc before the end.
•I have an old vinyl disc of her singing.
•I highly recommend this disc.
•She's slipped a disc.
•The Prokofiev sonata comes first on the disc.
•The disc was released in 1998.
•a disc of Mozart quartets
•a disc of the two Mozart piano quartets
•In a total eclipse, the moon completely covers the disc of the sun.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  disk, magnetic disk, magnetic disc, saucer, phonograph record, phonograph recording, record, platter