: 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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The full Buck Moon can be seen rising over the Temple of Poseidon in southern Greece in this image captured by Costas Baltas as the lunar disk crept over the southeastern horizon on the night of July 10.—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 11 July 2025 There are other images of the moon — another moonrise, one of the International Space Station appears to transit its disk and another of a moon-Saturn occultation.—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025 With 66 distinct incidents logged between January and late June, the state has had reports of an array of mysterious aerial objects, ranging from glowing orbs and silent triangles to fast-moving disks and shape-shifting lights.—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 7 July 2025 This feature marks the central disk of our home galaxy seen edge on, according to NASA.—Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for disk
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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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