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