DISC


Meaning of DISC in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

compact disc player

compact disc

The new album is available on vinyl, cassette, or compact disc.

disc brakes

disc jockey

Mini Disc

platinum disc

a platinum disc

slipped disc

tax disc

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

compact

Starting in 1993, the label plans to re-release all the Smiths albums on compact disc in chronological sequence.

But this is not, thankfully, a compact disc with a theatrical agenda.

It will also control lighting, curtains and the audio system with compact disc player.

One often felt assaulted, as if the volume had been turned up on a cheap compact disc player.

Each compact disc , cassette or record has been carefully chosen for the quality of its musical content and its recording.

Seldom has so much been placed on the shoulders of a single compact disc .

A display at the top of the dashboard tells you what you have selected: radio, cassette, compact disc .

And a compact disc changer is available, dealer installed, for $ 650.

floppy

Colin gave the wrong advice about getting floppy disc out when jammed and then I deleted the stuff off the hard disc.

The results of a search can be stored on a floppy disc or printed out.

Nothing, not a note, not an old article, not a floppy disc .

hard

Colin gave the wrong advice about getting floppy disc out when jammed and then I deleted the stuff off the hard disc.

Its other function is to take over your hard disc and encrypt all the file directories, rendering the disc unusable.

When the real Mac crashes and trashes your hard disc , you can take it out on the Smack-a-Mac!

Experts say on 12 October it will wipe out the hard disc of any machine it has entered.

The hard disc can then be formatted before all the files are restored.

new

These and other caveats prevent me from giving an unqualified recommendation to this new disc .

But they have not yet standardized the audio portion of the new disc .

optical

The large memory requirements suggest the use of optical disc storage.

Moreover, these market figures only take account of multi-media delivered on a stand-alone optical disc platform.

Today, portable optical disc players are also emerging.

single

None the less, everything important is included on Sony's single disc , which thus enjoys a considerable price advantage.

Seldom has so much been placed on the shoulders of a single compact disc .

Compact discs are available which contain a corpus of a whole century of poetry on a single disc.

Since the bike has a single-sided front swingarm, the firm was only able to fit a single front disc .

Another useful resource is offered by the possibility of putting very large dictionaries on to a single compact disc .

Brembo has supplied the brakes, which feature a single disc and four-pot caliper up front.

slipped

He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc .

He retired early from electrical work because of a slipped disc .

Could it be a slipped disc ?

small

Hire a smaller disc or belt sander for finishing off the room edges where the big sander can not reach.

A small , glowing disc swam calmly through the clear morning air trailing sparks.

This species has a small central disc , and long, slender arms.

■ NOUN

brake

As I rode away, I noticed that the front disc brake still faded erratically.

Both the transmission controls are heavy, and the all-disc brakes need a hefty shove despite their servo.

drive

It has a its own memory and processor, and X Window server software, but no disc drive .

Further, the price means it isn't worth upgrading a C64 by adding Commodore's slow disc drive .

The +3 is better value at £200, since this includes a built-in disc drive .

Happy Chip: The 810 enhancement and back-up is a circuit board which plugs into the standard disc drive for Atari computers.

Happy Computing claims that the chip will copy any disc that fits Atari's standard disc drive .

How often have you wanted to peer into your disc drive to see what's inside, for example?

The discs are suitable for Brother electronic models 940, 950i, 965 and 270 with disc drive .

jockey

Ike, former radio disc jockey , actually kept his congregation awake on Sunday mornings.

At first disc jockeys played the Kingsmen recording as a novelty, a kind of joke.

It was the kind of station, and nobody tried to disguise it, where self-respecting disc jockeys were never found.

Two disc jockeys would compete with each other in the clubs, taking turns to do their voice-over on the discs.

Chris Sheely looked like any other disc jockey spinning songs on a Saturday morning.

Jakki Brambles never had any ambitions to be a disc jockey .

You knew the popularity of black disc jockeys , the power to sell various products.

player

They stole a television, compact disc player , an amplifier and some speakers, worth a total of £900.

One often felt assaulted, as if the volume had been turned up on a cheap compact disc player .

We've fitted a compact disc player and protected it with a new security system.

You might also want to add a cassette tape player or compact disc player, neither of which the tester had.

It will also control lighting, curtains and the audio system with compact disc player .

We designed motorized shopping carts with everything from compact disc players to built-in price scanners.

Read in studio Now, imagine being able to show a feature film on your television from an ordinary compact disc player .

Today, portable optical disc players are also emerging.

tax

It's cheaper to get a tax disc .

■ VERB

contain

Depending on the system, a disc can contain from thirty to sixty minutes' of moving pictures on each side.

So you buy a compact disc containing scores of bird songs.

Still, it's very good, and subscribers get a disc containing at least one font with every issue.

A standard disc could contain only 25 seconds of video.

The disc also contains a monthly magazine of field and classroom ideas.

slip

His left leg slipped , rupturing a disc in his back.

I was tremendously upset when the elder slipped a disc and spent freshman year in a full body brace.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

slip a disc

I was tremendously upset when the elder slipped a disc and spent freshman year in a full body brace.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But MacLeod pulls it off, even writing 10 of the 12 songs on the disc .

If you sat in the fireplace and looked up you could see a disc of sky and several iron hooks in silhouette.

Some rival issues add another work and others get the symphony into one disc .

The reason why we've stopped you is that there's no disc on your windscreen.

The unit disc certainly ought to count as recursive!

There are not many sets simpler than the unit disc !

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