Do we say disc or disk

disc 238 occurrences

There was an immense crag there which stood boldly up on the hillside, and on to this he managed to climb, and standing on it he looked down upon that vast moving sea of grey mist that covered the earth, and saw the sun, a large crimson disc, rising from it.

Her face turned white as death, while she held up to my eyes the discoloured disc which proved the presence of the deadliest Martial poison.

During the recital of this adventure Bumblepuppy's face had deepened in tint till it glowed like an iron disc in the heart of a fire.

E. This short commentary upon three words in that part of the travels of Benjamin, which has been omitted in Harris, is extracted from Forster, Hist of Voy. and Disc.

Disc. and Conqu. passim.

The old will drink and be refreshed, The young the disc will fling, And the tender little children Pluck flowers beside the spring.

Disc valves of india rubber for air pumps.

They carried the message perfectly, so with curses of angry disgust the wire was pronounced disconnected, or "disc," as the signaler called it.

He was told briefly, and told also that the line was "disc."

Now and then the moon, then in her second quarter, would show her disc for an instant, but be quickly obscured; or a star of "paly" light peep out, and also disappear.

Round each of the four points, 90° apart, where the cross cuts the circle, I drew small circles of the size of wafers and gummed upon each a disc of different tint.

It is sometimes seen cutting the moon's disc with a sharp line.

Zinc is, perhaps, better spelled zink; marc, mark; disc, disk; and talc, talck.

Disc., p. xviii.

It still glowed out white and large, no mere twinkling spot of light, but a small, round, clear shining disc, an hour after the day had come.

And when at last the great star rose near ten hours late, the sun rose close upon it, and in the centre of its white heart was a disc of black.

Men looking up, near blinded, at the star, saw that a black disc was creeping across the light.

And there, unpent by mountains, one saw the skythe sky, not such a disc as one saw it here, but an arch of immeasurable blue, a deep of deeps in which the circling stars were floating...

And Hope's bright disc will feel eclipse's gloom.

I remember Krishna, the jests he made, who placed his sport in the pastoral dance, Whose brow had a perfect sandal spot, as among dark clouds the disc of the moon, Whose door-like heart was without pity when crushing the bosoms of swelling breasts.

The white disc rose, a miracle; it looked very large, as if it had grown bigger in the night.

Endued with unrivalled beauty and celestial grace of the most attractive kind, that face of thine is even like the full moon, its celestial effulgence resembling his radiant face, its smile resembling his soft-light, and its eye-lashes looking like the spokes on his disc.

And in consequence of having wept long her face looked beautiful like the lunar disc in the firmament, emerged from the clouds.

Mercury was the one which least interested him; but he ascertained the perfect circularity of its disc.

It may be regarded as counting in Aristotle's favour that he did consider the earth to be a sphere and not a flat disc, but he seems to have thought that the mathematical spheres of Eudoxus had a real solid existence, and that not only meteors, shooting stars and aurora, but also comets and the milky way belong to the atmosphere.

disk 791 occurrences

There were the lakesGrasmere, a disk of shining blue; Rydal, a patch of silver; and Windermere winding amidst a labyrinth of wooded hills.

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The facial disk is small, and incomplete above the orbit.

Zinc is, perhaps, better spelled zink; marc, mark; disc, disk; and talc, talck.

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The sun rose red and angry through broken clouds; his disk flamed behind the tall, slender columns of the palms, and lit the waste fields of papyrus.

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Then a steel plate, k, 1.3 inches wide by 0.2 inch thick, is placed against the cylinder, and against this plate again is placed a cardboard disk, 1.34 inches wide by 0.4 inch thick.

Then the charge of powder, weighing exactly 300 grains, is introduced, and a new cardboard disk, a steel plate, and a leaden cylinder are inserted, and the second head is screwed up.

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" By the Mokis, maidenhood is indicated by wearing the hair as a disk on each side of the head.

And as they lookedand as the burning disk of the sun, falling down and down behind forest, mountain and plain, bade its last adieu to the land of the wild, there came to them, strangely clear and beautiful, the notes of a bugle.

Out on the Arizona mesa, against the half disk of gold, was the black silhouette of a horseman.

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As the disk of the sun approached the horizon, the light was rapidly increasing; the dawn in those higher latitudes is however long, but those who knew the signs of the morning were aware that it would soon terminate, and that they whose deeds feared the light had no time to lose.

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The count had opened a leather case and taken out of it a shiny disk of silver.

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