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 !