Disc
(n.) A flat round plate |
Disc
(n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals |
Disk
(n.) A discus |
Disk
(n.) A flat, circular plate |
Disk
(n.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens. |
Disk
(n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals |
Disk
(n.) The whole surface of a leaf. |
Disk
(n.) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower. |
Disk
(n.) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil. |
Disk
(n.) The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones. |
Disk
(n.) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk. |
Disk
(n.) In owls, the space around the eyes. |
Hard
(superl.) Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts |
Hard
(superl.) Difficult, mentally or judicially |
Hard
(superl.) Difficult to accomplish |
Hard
(superl.) Difficult to resist or control |
Hard
(superl.) Difficult to bear or endure |
Hard
(superl.) Difficult to please or influence |
Hard
(superl.) Not easy or agreeable to the taste |
Hard
(superl.) Rough |
Hard
(superl.) Abrupt or explosive in utterance |
Hard
(superl.) Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance |
Hard
(superl.) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures |
Hard
(superl.) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade. |
Hard
(adv.) With pressure |
Hard
(adv.) With difficulty |
Hard
(adv.) Uneasily |
Hard
(adv.) So as to raise difficulties. |
Hard
(adv.) With tension or strain of the powers |
Hard
(adv.) Close or near. |
Hard
(v. t.) To harden |
Hard
(n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp. |
Hard-favored
(a.) Hard-featured |
Hard-featured
(a.) Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. |
Hard-fisted
(a.) Having hard or strong hands |
Hard-fisted
(a.) Close-fisted |
Hard-fought
(a. Vigorously) contested |
Hard grass
() A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the species of Aegilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived. |
Hard-handed
(a.) Having hard hands, as a manual laborer. |
Hard-headed
(a.) Having sound judgment |
Hard-hearted
(a.) Unsympathetic |
Hard-labored
(a.) Wrought with severe labor |
Hard-mouthed
(a.) Not sensible to the bit |
Hard-shell
(a.) Unyielding |
Hard-tack
(n.) A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread. |
Hard-visaged
(a.) Of a harsh or stern countenance |
Partition
(v.) The act of parting or dividing |
Partition
(v.) That which divides or separates |
Partition
(v.) A part divided off by walls |
Partition
(v.) The servance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law. |
division partition
partitioning
segmentation
sectionalization
sectionalisation | the act of dividing or partitioning, separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart |
| hard sell | forceful and insistent advertising |
blastoderm
germinal disc
blastodisc
germinal area | a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula |
hard tick
ixodid | ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head |
quahog
quahaug
hard-shell clam
hard clam
round clam
Venus mercenaria
Mercenaria mercenaria | an edible American clam, the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians |
| hard-shell crab | edible crab that has not recently molted and so has a hard shell |
acetate disk
phonograph recording disk | a disk coated with cellulose acetate |
audio CD
audio compact disc | compact discs used to reproduce sound (voice and music) |
| brake disk | a disk or plate that is fixed to the wheel, pressure is applied to it by the brake pads |
CD-R
compact disc recordable
CD-WO
compact disc write-once | a compact disc on which you can write only once and thereafter is read-only memory |
CD-ROM
compact disc read-only memory | a compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system), a large amount of digital information can be stored and accessed but it cannot be altered by the user |
compact disk
compact disc
CD | a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record, played back by a laser |
compact-disk burner
CD burner | recording equipment for making compact disks |
disk
disc | a flat circular plate |
| disk access | memory access to the computer disk on which information is stored |
disk brake
disc brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads |
| disk cache | a cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slower disk |
| disk clutch | a friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are disks |
| disk controller | (computer science) a circuit or chip that translates commands into a form that can control a hard disk drive |
disk drive
disc drive
hard drive
Winchester drive | computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it |
diskette
floppy
floppy disk | a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit, used to store data or programs for a microcomputer, floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price |
disk harrow
disc harrow | a harrow with a series of disks set on edge at an angle |
hard disc
hard disk
fixed disk | a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit |
| hard drug | a narcotic that is considered relatively strong and likely to cause addiction |
hard hat
tin hat
safety hat | a lightweight protective helmet (plastic or metal) worn by construction workers |
| hard shoulder | a paved strip beside a motorway (for stopping in emergencies) |
magnetic disk
magnetic disc
disk disc | (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored |
optical disk
optical disc | a disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface, is read with a laser that scans the surface |
partition
divider | a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) |
phonograph record
phonograph recording
record
disk disc platter | sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove, used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove |
| RAM disk | (computer science) a virtual drive that is created by setting aside part of the random-access memory to use as if it were a group of sectors, access to a RAM disk is very fast but the data it contains is lost when the system is turned off |
| Rayleigh disk | an acoustic radiometer consisting of a light disk suspended from a quartz thread, when exposed to a progressive sound wave its torque can measure velocity |
| removable disk | a hard disk that can be removed from the disk drive, removal prevents unauthorized use |
circularity
disk shape | the roundness of a -dimensional figure |
| partition | (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism |
intervertebral disc
intervertebral disk | a fibrocartilaginous disc serving as a cushion between all of the vertebrae of the spinal column (except between the first two) |
| hard palate | the bony part of the roof of the mouth |
blind spot
optic disc
optic disk | the point where the optic nerve enters the retina, not sensitive to light |
| hard line | a firm and uncompromising stance or position, the governor took a hard line on drugs |
| hard copy | (computer science) matter that is held in a computer and is typed or printed on paper, he ran off a hard copy of the report |
| disk file | (computer science) a computer file stored on a magnetic disk and identified by a unique label |
DOS
disk operating system | an operating system that is on a disk |
MS-DOS
Microsoft disk operating system | an operating system developed by Bill Gates for personal computers |
| hard news | news that deals with serious topics or events |
| disk error | error resulting from malfunction of a magnetic disk |
| hard candy | candy that is brittle, you can break a tooth on that hard candy |
hard roll
Vienna roll | yeastaised roll with a hard crust |
quahaug
quahog
hard-shell clam
round clam | Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells, large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes |
roe
hard roe | fish eggs or egg-filled ovary, having a grainy texture |
| hard sauce | butter and sugar creamed together with brandy or other flavoring and served with rich puddings |