Disc vs. Disco

Discnoun

A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

‘A coin is a disc of metal.’;

Disconoun

, a nightclub for dancing.

Discnoun

(anatomy) An intervertebral disc.

Disconoun

(uncountable) A genre of dance music that was popular in the 1970s, characterized by elements of soul music with a strong Latin-American beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights.

Discnoun

Something resembling a disc.

‘Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.’;

Discoverb

(intransitive) To dance disco-style dances.

Discnoun

A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.

‘Turn the disc over, after it has finished.’;

Discoverb

(intransitive) To go to discotheques.

Discnoun

(botany) The flat surface of an organ, as a leaf, any flat, round growth.

Disconoun

a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music

Discnoun

(disc golf) A Frisbee.

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars.

Discverb

(agriculture) To harrow with a disc harrow.

Discnoun

A flat round plate

Discnoun

sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves

Discnoun

something with a round shape like a flat circular plate

Discnoun

(computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored

Discnoun

a flat circular plate

Discnoun

a flat, thin circular object

‘a man's body with an identity disc around the neck’; ‘coins were made by striking a blank disc of metal’;

Discnoun

an information storage device for a computer in the shape of a round flat plate which can be rotated to give access to all parts of the surface. The data may be stored either magnetically (in a magnetic disk) or optically (in an optical disk such as a CD-ROM).

Discnoun

a CD or record.

Discnoun

one of the suits in some tarot packs, corresponding to coins in others.

Discnoun

an object or part resembling a disc in shape or appearance

‘the smudged yellow disc of the moon’;

Discnoun

a layer of cartilage separating adjacent vertebrae in the spine

‘he suffered a prolapsed disc’;

Discnoun

the central part of the flower of a daisy or other composite plant, consisting of a close-packed cluster of tubular florets.