Phrase Hound found 44 phrases and 14 compound words that contain discs. The most common are listed below. Open discs in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 44
- compact discsplural of compact disc: A kind of plastic optical disc used to store audio or digital data, read by a laser in a drive.
- flying discsplural of flying disc: Synonym of frisbee (“the object”).
- laser discsplural of laser disc: A home videodisc format of the 1980s, now obsolete.
- optical discsplural of optical disc: A modern data storage medium consisting of a flat disc read mechanically by illumination with laser light, including the Laserdisc, compact disc, DVD, and Blu-ray.
- picture discsplural of picture disc: A phonograph record with images on the playable surface, rather than plain vinyl.
- brake discsplural of brake disc: The disc or rotor that is squeezed between brake pads in a disc brake.
- lip discsplural of lip disc: A lip plate.
- floppy discsplural of floppy disc: A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.
- digital video discsplural of digital video disc: Initialism of digital video/versatile disc; an optical disc on which video is recorded in digital format, such as commercially-released movies and other video media.
- digital versatile discsplural of digital versatile disc: Initialism of digital video/versatile disc; an optical disc on which video is recorded in digital format, such as commercially-released movies and other video media.
- Blu-ray Discsplural of Blu-ray Disc: An optical disc storage medium used for data and video, introduced in 2006, having the same physical dimensions as a CD or DVD but greater storage capacity.
- intervertebral discsplural of intervertebral disc: A disc between the vertebra in the spine.
- circumstellar discsplural of circumstellar disc: A torus-, pancake- or ring-shaped accretion disk of matter composed of gas, dust, planetesimals, asteroids, or collision fragments in orbit around a star.
- imaginal discsplural of imaginal disc: Any of several pairs of discs within the body of a larva that become part of the outside during the pupal stage of holometabolism (complete metamorphosis).
- protoplanetary discsplural of protoplanetary disc: A rotating disk of dense gas and dust surrounding a young newly formed star, and from which planets may be formed.
- death discsplural of death disc: A phonograph record about teenage tragedy.
- facial discsplural of facial disc: A concave collection of feathers on the face of some birds, notably owls, surrounding the eyes.
- fixed discsplural of fixed disc: A hard disk.
- gold discsplural of gold disc: A gold record.
- hard discsplural of hard disc: One of a series of parallel magnetic recording disks in a drive unit, used for the recording and retrieval of digital information; used especially in personal computers.
- ice discsplural of ice disc: A phenomenon that occurs on rivers during winter, where floating ice caught in an eddying flow will rotate around, knocking off its distant edges, forming a floating revolving circular disk, slowing turning under the …
- parking discsplural of parking disc: A device placed inside a parked vehicle, indicating either the time of its arrival, or its eligibility to park in a specified place
- recovery discsplural of recovery disc: A CD-ROM distributed with a computer and containing copies of the software originally installed on the computer's hard drive, allowing the end user to restore the system to its factory state.
- sun discsplural of sun disc: A disc symbolizing the sun, especially as used as religious symbol in ancient Egypt.
- tax discsplural of tax disc: A circular piece of paper, designed to be fixed to the inside of a windscreen, that serves as a record that a vehicle has been properly taxed (no longer used)
Compound words 14
- MiniDiscsplural of MiniDisc: A magnetooptical format for storing digital audio.
- Laserdiscsplural of Laserdisc: A home videodisc format of the 1980s, now obsolete.
- videodiscsplural of videodisc: An optical disc containing a video recording that can be viewed on a television receiver.
- coverdiscsplural of coverdisc: A floppy disk offered as a covermount, containing video games or other software.
- discstonesplural of discstone: A carved stone object like a ringstone but without the central hole.
- flexidiscsplural of flexidisc: A phonograph record, made of a thin vinyl sheet with a moulded spiral stylus groove, produced between 1960 and 2000 and sometimes used as a means of including audio material with books and magazines.
- holodiscsplural of holodisc: A holographic disk used as a storage medium.
- magnetodiscsplural of magnetodisc: A disc-shaped magnetosphere
- microdiscsplural of microdisc: A very small disk (in any of many contexts)
- nanodiscsplural of nanodisc: A synthetically constructed soluble protein ring that stably incorporates a lipid membrane, used in the study of membrane proteins.