Definitions
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- adjective having a flat circular shape
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Examples
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When the motorboat arrived at the right spot in the middle of the lake, my daughters and nieces jumped into the water, clambered atop the big buouyant disk-shaped tube wide enough for three to lie face-down, and clutch the handles, waiting for the craft to zoom off.
Michele Somerville: It Takes a (Christmas) Village to Raise a Child With Autism Michele Somerville 2011
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An American retrieval team quickly rushed to the scene from Ramstein and found the flat disk-shaped object, about
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When our solar system began to take shape, roughly 4.5 billion years ago, it was a disk-shaped cloud of gas and dust spinning around a dense core, which became the sun.
Earth contains a vast amount of water, but scientists are unsure of its origins Ben Harder 2010
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And in Amsterdam, Nina Farkache created a home bench called "Bench 'Come a little bit closer'" with disk-shaped seats that glide over a marble-topped bench, allowing people to play with personal space.
Dylan Kendall: Aesthetics and the City: Building Commuinity 2010
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The new Casio Edifice watch EQW-M1100 is equipped with a 1/1000-second stopwatch and exciting disk-shaped indicators that show time measurement results.
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The small, disk-shaped kernels come in many colors usually beige and cook in about 15 minutes.
The Food Matters Cookbook Mark Bittman 2010
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Julianna's comb and wattles were vivid red, and he sported white disk-shaped “ear - lobes,” part of the rooster's dangly parts, as I called them, below the ear holes.
The Chicken Chronicles Sandra Knauf 2010
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And in Amsterdam, Nina Farkache created a home bench called "Bench 'Come a little bit closer'" with disk-shaped seats that glide over a marble-topped bench, allowing people to play with personal space.
Dylan Kendall: Aesthetics and the City: Building Commuinity 2010
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The celebrant was young, half her age at most, with clear, disk-shaped lenses set in wireless frames.
The Sin Eater 2010
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Comanches, meanwhile, carried a far more effective and battle-tested assortment of weapons: a disk-shaped buffalo-hide shield, a fourteen-foot plains lance, a sinew-backed bow, and a quiver of iron-tipped arrows.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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