Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a flat, circular form; disk-shaped.
- adjective Related to or having a disk.
- adjective Having disk flowers only. Used of a composite flower head.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a disk; pertaining to a disk.
- Also
discoidal . - noun Something in the form of a disk or quoit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Anything having the form of a discus or disk; particularly, a discoid shell.
- adjective Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus.
- adjective (Bot.) a compound flower, consisting of tubular florets only, as a tansy, lacking the rays which are seen in the daisy and sunflower.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or shaped like a
disc /disk
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a flat circular shape
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Examples
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"He had a form of skin lupus, called discoid lupus, which affects about 40 percent of the patients with lupus," Lahita said, adding that this condition can lead to depigmentation of the skin, among other things.
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"He had a form of skin lupus, called discoid lupus, which affects about 40 percent of the patients with lupus," Lahita said, adding that this condition can lead to depigmentation of the skin, among other things.
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"He had a form of skin lupus, called discoid lupus, which affects about 40 percent of the patients with lupus," Lahita said, adding that this condition can lead to depigmentation of the skin, among other things.
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And yet, while there are some common themes within the "random" mix that have been witnessed many times over the past 150+ years such as discoid objects, spheres [both metallic and illumined], and more recently large black triangles [plus "humanoid" varieties of entities], etcetera, can we suppose these more common "display patterns" to be the "signal within the noise"?
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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Then she came back and told me I had discoid lupus.
Magic City Trick Daddy 2010
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That is because I had been put on long-term disability by my employer, with fibromyalgia, systemic lupus, discoid lupus, chronic fatigue, high blood pressure, elevated sugar factor, etc.
CSS: Shaping the New You Jack Canfield 2010
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The biggest surprise here is "My Girls", a sisterly discoid delight attributed to feminist electropunks Le Tigre, closely followed by "Bobblehead", a diss track co-authored by Santigold.
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Then she came back and told me I had discoid lupus.
Magic City Trick Daddy 2010
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That is because I had been put on long-term disability by my employer, with fibromyalgia, systemic lupus, discoid lupus, chronic fatigue, high blood pressure, elevated sugar factor, etc.
CSS: Shaping the New You Jack Canfield 2010
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Then she came back and told me I had discoid lupus.
Magic City Trick Daddy 2010
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