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verb(disk)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(disk)the seemingly flat figure of a celestial body
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noun(disk)discus
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noun(disk)any of various rounded and flattened animal anatomical structures; especially : intervertebral disk
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noun(disk)a disk of usually gaseous matter surrounding a massive celestial object (such as a black hole) in which the matter gradually spirals in toward and accretes onto the object as a result of gravitational attraction
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noun(disk)blastodisc
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noun(disk)blastoderm
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noun(disk)the part of the inner cell mass of a blastocyst from which the embryo of a placental mammal develops —called also embryonic shield
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noun(disk)a rigid metal disk coated with a magnetic material on which data for a computer can be stored; also : hard drive
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noun(disk)any of the tough elastic disks that are interposed between the centra of adjoining vertebrae and that consist of an outer fibrous ring enclosing an inner pulpy nucleus
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noun(disk)disk
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noun(disk)a disk with a plastic coating on which information (such as music, visual images, or computer data) is recorded digitally (as in the form of tiny pits) and which is read by using a laser
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noun(disk)blind spot
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noun(disk)a protrusion of one of the cartilage disks between vertebrae with pressure on spinal nerves resulting in low back pain or sciatic pain