Disk vs Autoloader - What's the difference?
disk | autoloader |
A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
Something resembling a disk.
An .
A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
A floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.
A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium.
A harrow.
A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
(agriculture) to harrow
* {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Various, title=Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916, chapter=, edition=
, passage=That is alkali. Mr. Kochendorfer: I have a ten-year apple orchard that I disked last year and kept it tolerably clean this spring. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1948, author=Various, title=Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted potatoes. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=September 6, author=Jerry Sullivan, title=Field & Street, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=The soil is plowed and disked and then seeded with a mixture of prairie plants. }}
(military) A mechanical device that loads ordnance into weapons such as tanks and artillery that would otherwise be loaded by a dedicated crew.
(computing) A mechanical device that automatically loads storage media (such as tapes or disks) into the device that can read them.
a semi-automatic firearm
As nouns the difference between disk and autoloader
is that disk is a thin, flat, circular plate or similar object while autoloader is a mechanical device that loads ordnance into weapons such as tanks and artillery that would otherwise be loaded by a dedicated crew.As a verb disk
is to harrow.disk
English
(wikipedia disk)Noun
(en noun)- A coin is a disk of metal.
- Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
- Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
- He still uses floppy disks from 1979.
- She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.
Usage notes
In International English, disk'' is the correct spelling for magnetic ''disks''. If the medium is optical, the variant ''disc'' is usually preferred, although computing is a peculiar field for the term. For instance hard disk and other disk drives are always thus spelled, yet so are terms like compact discs. Thus, if referring to a physical drive or older media (3" or 5.25" diskettes) the ''k'' is used, but ''c is used for newer (optical based) media. Less commonly, in British English, disc'' has been used for magnetic disks, as in ''floppy disc'' and ''discette .Verb
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