ディスク
Meanings
1
General term for a flat, circular object. Used for physical shapes like a disc brake or a frisbee, as well as optical media like CDs and DVDs.
This CD is scratched and the disc cannot be read.
A frisbee is a plastic disc.
2
Specifically refers to data storage media, such as hard disks, floppy disks, and optical discs. Often used in computing contexts.
I'm running out of space on my hard disk.
I back up important data to an external disk.
Usage patterns
- ディスクを挿入するto insert a disc
I inserted the disc into the computer.
- ディスクが回転するthe disc spins/rotates
The disc is spinning at high speed inside the player.
- ディスクを読み込むto read (load) a disc
The computer is reading the disc.
- ディスクをフォーマットするto format a disk
You have to format a new disk before using it.
- ディスクの容量the capacity of a disk
This disk's capacity is 1 terabyte.