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Disk vs Fisk - What's the difference?

disk | fisk |

As verbs the difference between disk and fisk

is that disk is to harrow while fisk is to run about; to frisk; to whisk.

As a noun disk

is a thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

As a proper noun Fisk is

{{surname}.

disk

English

(wikipedia disk)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
    • A coin is a disk of metal.
  • Something resembling a disk.
    • Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
  • An .
  • A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
    • Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
  • A floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.
    • He still uses floppy disks from 1979.
  • A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium.
    • She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.
  • A harrow.
  • A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.

    • 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

    (en verb)
  • (agriculture) to harrow
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Various, title=Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , 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 citation
    • , passage=The soil is plowed and disked and then seeded with a mixture of prairie plants. }}

    Anagrams

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    fisk

    English

    (fisking)

    Etymology 1

    Compare Swedish .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To run about; to frisk; to whisk.
  • * Latimer
    • He fisks abroad, and stirreth up erroneous opinions.

    Etymology 2

    Back-formation from fisking.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To rebut an argument line by line, especially on the Internet.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2002, date=December, work=Review, author=Institute of Public Affairs, title=The World of Blog citation
    • , passage=A proper fisking leaves the reader with a clear understanding that the text so fisked was appallingly wrong in every important respect!}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 13, work=The Economist, title=Fisked By Obama, url=
    • , passage=Now, apparently, Barack Obama's campaign is fisking Hillary Clinton's campaign memos.}} English eponyms ----