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# disc

«disc» in Mova's school dictionary: **a flat, thin, round object** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a disc, discs; American spelling disk)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A disc is a flat, thin, round object. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disc/#m1)

2) A disc is a round flat object used to store music, films or computer data, such as a CD or DVD. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disc/#m2)

3) A disc is one of the small pads of tough material between the bones of your spine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disc/#m3)

4) The disc of the sun or moon is its round, bright face as seen in the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disc/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, a disc is the flat round area inside a circle. In science, the Sun and Moon look like discs in the sky; there are discs in the backbone. In everyday life and PE, children throw a flying disc (frisbee). Phrases: a flying disc, a compact disc, a slipped disc, a disc of light.

### examples

- The full Moon looked like a silver disc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disc/#x1)
- Put the disc into the DVD player. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disc/#x2)
- We threw a plastic disc across the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disc/#x3)
- Cut a disc of paper for the lid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disc/#x4)
- Grandad has a slipped disc in his back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disc/#x5)
- The medal was a gold disc on a ribbon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disc/#x6)

### note

Countable: a disc, discs. Spelling: British «disc», American «disk»; in computing «disk» is used everywhere for hard disks, but «disc» for CDs and DVDs. In maths, a circle is the round line; a disc is the whole flat shape inside it.

### In the corpora

- [Telescopes such as ALMA in Chile have photographed dusty discs around young stars where new planets are forming right now.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/16/)
- [The disc of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across but only about 1,000 light years thick in most places.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/23-the-milky-way/7/)
- [Alessandro Volta made the first battery in 1800 from a pile of metal discs and cloth soaked in salty water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/34-batteries/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «disc» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disc/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.