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disk
disk S2 W3 /dɪsk/ noun [COUNTABLE] [date : 1600-1700; Language : Latin; Origin : discus 'disk, plate'] 1. a small flat piece of plastic or metal which is used for storing computer or electronic information
2. the usual American spelling of disc ⇨ compact disc, floppy disk, hard disk, laser disk
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES disk drive floppy disk hard disk laser disk magnetic disk COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADJECTIVE available ▪ A non-elastic limitation is the available disk storage capacity. ▪ The code has been passed out on the nets for free and made available on disks. ▪ To add a background image choose Format, Sheet, Background and choose an image from those available on your disk. ▪ Source code listings for the programs described in the book are available on disk. ▪ With luck Brix should now be doing the rounds on the bulletin boards and available from disk libraries shortly. ▪ Every telephone directory is now available on disk. compact ▪ Some predict that eventually everyone will carry all the sequences of his genes on a compact disk. ▪ A compact disk player, rare for its day, fed Chopin and the Rolling Stones into fierce-looking, six-foot MartinLogan speakers. ▪ It enables moving pictures as well as text and graphics to be stored on compact disks. ▪ One listed his music cassettes, the second his compact disks. ▪ It uses a Wavelet algorithm for video compression and provides compact disk quality audio and broadcast quality video. floppy ▪ This will store more than 50 times as much data as the floppy disks with the biggest storage capacity! ▪ When it succeeds, the virus then copies itself on to any more floppy disks inserted in that computer. ▪ In the absence of networking, students need to submit work on floppy disks. ▪ One of the easiest is to modify your computer so that it will not boot from a floppy disk. ▪ It is capable of running entirely from floppy disks and so allows computer users without a hard drive to produce professional scores. ▪ The whole program comes on a single floppy disk. ▪ Ten years of world wide research, held on floppy disks, had melted. ▪ Originally Word fit quite neatly on a single 400K floppy disk. free ▪ In desperation, Dudley went back to the store where he had found the free sign-up disks and picked up another set. hard ▪ There's no install program; you just copy the files across to the hard disk. ▪ The hard disk drive is fast, too, with its own on-board cache. ▪ A hard disk enables the microcomputer to store vast amounts of information on disk. ▪ When compression software really goes haywire, you can lose everything on your hard disk. ▪ The hard disk is also fast, without the benefit of a cache controller. ▪ And because it's a DOS-based program, it won't take up masses of hard disk space. ▪ When I first turned it on, it reported a hard disk failure. ▪ This will execute a command in every subdirectory of a hard disk. magnetic ▪ Search times are usually slower than magnetic disks, because the reading head has to follow a track. ▪ Electronic cameras record light as a series of digital impulses on a magnetic disk. ▪ These are referred to as Media Items and include magnetic tapes, disks, etc. optical ▪ Once documents have been scanned and indexed, they have to be saved to optical disk. ▪ See also Optical disks, Rewritable disks. single ▪ The package is easy to use - it comes on a single disk and self-installs in a couple of minutes. ▪ A single Macintosh disk, on the other hand, could hold ten of those chapters! ▪ A single disk can contain 650 megabytes of data, equal to 200,000 typed A4 pages or 1,500 floppy disks. ▪ Even then, a single missed disk could start the whole thing over again. ▪ Windows 9x does not allow you to have multiple visible primary partitions on a single disk. ▪ Originally Word fit quite neatly on a single 400K floppy disk. ▪ The reason is simple, the program is now bigger than 800K and won't fit on a single disk! ▪ The whole program comes on a single floppy disk. small ▪ These are simple small disks made out of magnetic material which are small enough to be carried in a briefcase. ▪ Instead, there was a series of concentric circles, surrounding a small black disk. ▪ What's more, with email everything you send and receive can be filed in a relatively small amount of disk space. ▪ You can also bake in small pancake-sized disks and store them for popping into the toaster later. NOUN computer ▪ Copy all your computer disks and update them whenever you visit your headquarters. ▪ Because each film will take up a tremendous amount of computer disk space, only one will be available at a time. ▪ It was also reported that considerable quantities of files and computer disks had been seized during the raids. ▪ The computer disk keeping record of vehicles coming in and out was later found to have been erased. ▪ It is possible to lose the entire speech off a computer disk. ▪ His publisher keeps a list on computer disk. controller ▪ The video and disk controllers and network interfaces have been integrated directly on to the motherboard. ▪ And how do I know which cards require a disk controller? ▪ Install the disk controller and floppy disks. drive ▪ Air is drawn in to this low pressure area primarily through the ventilation slots and also through the floppy disk drive apertures. ▪ The faster the disk drive and controller, the faster the computer. ▪ Myth-3: New disk drive technology that doesn't improve seek time can be dismissed as ineffective. ▪ The screen displays a list of the macros stored on your default disk drive. ▪ When is the 3.5-inch disk drive due for release? 4. ▪ The disk drive ground and whirred. ▪ Security features include a locking disk drive cover, locking lid and cable clamps. ▪ Then the disk drive whirred once more and the question mark evaporated. space ▪ However, you should still separate out your data, even if you do not intend to charge users for disk space. ▪ Because each film will take up a tremendous amount of computer disk space, only one will be available at a time. ▪ However, it may sometimes be necessary to move one or other to a different device due to disk space limitations. ▪ Additional disk space is a dollar or two per megabyte per month, depending on total amount. ▪ Hard disk space required: 318k Registration brings: peace of mind! ▪ Windows software is required, along with 12 megabytes of memory and 10 megabytes of disk space. ▪ And because it's a DOS-based program, it won't take up masses of hard disk space. ▪ Multimedia titles, digital photography and other things your kids get into will eat up hard disk space. storage ▪ Expansion in the number of users and disk storage supported are on there way. ▪ The other kind is disk storage, commonly on a hard drive or floppy disk. ▪ A non-elastic limitation is the available disk storage capacity. ▪ This will slow it down, because random-access memory is much faster than disk storage. ▪ When it comes to disk storage capacity spreadsheets don't normally take much space. ▪ The disk storage available is defined by the System Supervisor for each lexicographer. ▪ Both instruments have automatic setting of wavelength, bandwidth and gas flows, video displays, disk storage and full alpha-numeric keyboard. VERB copy ▪ The file could be copied to another disk if space is a problem on the current working disk. ▪ You write a memo on the one in the office, copy it to disk and take it home. ▪ The cost of copying a disk of software or a tape of music is a fraction of the cost of the product. cover ▪ Other species of Ophiolebes species have a thickened skin covering the disk and to a certain extent the arm spines. include ▪ A sample project is included on the system disk and this may be viewed. ▪ This will include disk compression, which will ease the space problem on your Compaq portable. ▪ Security features include a locking disk drive cover, locking lid and cable clamps. ▪ These are referred to as Media Items and include magnetic tapes, disks, etc. save ▪ Once documents have been scanned and indexed, they have to be saved to optical disk. ▪ If you already started the document and saved it on the disk, recall it for editing or addition. ▪ I can either speak what I have written or save it on disk. ▪ You can edit a new document as you type it or an existing one that is already saved on the disk. ▪ The leaderboard keeps track of the games played and scores which can be saved to disk at the end of each game. ▪ If you enter a document name, the sorted list will be saved on the disk under that name. ▪ This can be saved to disk, displayed on your computer or included in documents. store ▪ It enables moving pictures as well as text and graphics to be stored on compact disks. ▪ You can combine, or merge, documents that are stored separately on the disk. ▪ For example: a file is to be stored on a 3380 disk, fourteen records per track, starting at cylinder 23. ▪ The screen displays a list of the macros stored on your default disk drive. ▪ These sub-dictionaries are stored on disk and are read in as required. ▪ Macros stored on disk are useful when you will use a series of keystrokes in many different documents. ▪ He then said that the program would not have been patentable had it been stored on a floppy disk. ▪ The file will be stored on disk line by line, with a carriage return after each line. use ▪ It can be used on a hard disk computer or a floppy disk type with two disk drives. write ▪ If no data has actually been written to disk in the meantime, further speed increases are gained. ▪ The image is then written to a target disk at high speed and verified if required. ▪ The read channel retrieves data stored on the disk and writes to the disk. ▪ The message is initially held in memory, and when the call is finished is written to disk. ▪ A master disk can be read into memory and once there can be written out to blank disks many times. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Each player chooses a coloured disk and places it on the board in the space marked 'go'. ▪ He gazed up at the pale yellow disk of the moon. ▪ When over half the moon's disk is visible, we have a "gibbous" moon. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Books on floppy disk are being targeted at the business market, where there are multitudes of personal computers in use. ▪ However, many disk writes are shortly followed by another to the same sector. ▪ In 1995, the stock market smashed more records than a disgruntled disk jockey. ▪ It was far too bright to be a star, but one could look directly at its tiny disk without discomfort. ▪ Originally Word fit quite neatly on a single 400K floppy disk. ▪ The disk is very delicate and often damaged particularly in the centre. ▪ This occurs in middle-aged and elderly individuals, but soft disk herniation also may occur in young adults. ▪ Tutorials on disk are the latest way to get to grips with problem areas.
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