to disk
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8.2
- verb
- /dɪsk/
- Specialized
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pasar la grada
- Occupy the Farm has no crops left, as news comes out of UC Berkeley that all crops in the Gill Tract have been disked under (meaning that they have been chopped up and mixed with the newly broken soil for easier planting in the future).
Examples
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The corn in the field is about two feet high, and the hired men are disking between the rows of weeds.
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After disking and plowing the soil, garlic growers machine-plant the cloves in long beds.
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The corn in the field is about two feet high, and the hired men are disking between the rows of weeds.
Fiction book (1994) -
I disked the sod three times and then once over with a rotary tiller.
Blog text (6) -
Many fields had been tilled several times to build, maintain, and weed raised seedbeds, and "farmers had disked the land to a fine powder," Smart says.
Academic text (1997) -
These materials are now burned, disked into the soil, or left in brush piles, and landowners are unwilling to bear additional costs to gather and transport these potential resources.
Academic text (1999) -
Getting a piece of ground ready to plant involves more than just mowing and disking.
Synonyms
Compounds
- US
12
2.5
A small round shiny disc that stores music, videos, or computer files read by a laser
- Specialized
6
3.5
A device in a computer that holds and spins a disk to read or write data
- Archaic
6
3.7
A thin plastic square that holds a flat magnetic disk for storing computer files
- Specialized
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3.2
A round metal part beside a wheel that slows the wheel when pads press both sides
- Specialized
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4.1
A small computer part that tells a hard disk drive how to read and write data
- Specialized
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7.1
A round area at the back of the eye where the optic nerve enters and has no light-sensing cells
- Specialized
A part of a computer's memory that stores often used data so the computer can read it faster
- Specialized
A device in which flat disks press together to send power between moving parts
- Specialized
A problem when a computer cannot open or save files on a disk because the disk is damaged
- Specialized
A program that runs from a disk to control a computer and its files
- Specialized
Space on a disk used to store information the computer needs, not your files
- Archaic
A basic system made by Microsoft that runs early personal computers
- Specialized
A fast virtual drive using computer memory that can lose data when power stops
- Specialized
A light disk hung on a thread that measures sound wave speed by turning when sound pushes it
- Archaic
A flat disk used to make and play sound on an old record player
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Etymology
Disk as a verb comes from the farm tool called a disk, a round metal blade used to break and smooth soil, so to 'disk' is to work the ground with those round blades. That's why to disk land means to pull disk blades over it to prepare it for planting.