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2022-02-13

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – D - drive & disk

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ความหมาย อาจผันแปร ตาม ตำแหน่ง/หน้าที่ ในประโยค

 

Dictionary.com:

ออกเสียง drive = “DRAHYV”

ออกเสียง disk = “DISK”

 

Common Errors in English Usage Dictionary:

drive & disk 

A hard drive and a hard disk are much the same thing;

but when it comes to removable computer media, 

the drive is the machinery that turns and reads the disk. 

Be sure not to ask for a drive when all you need is a disk.

 

Dictionary.com:

SYNONYM STUDY FOR DRIVE

Drive, ride 

are used interchangeably

to mean traveling in an automobile 

or, formerly, in a horse-drawn vehicle. 

 

These two words are not synonyms in other connections.

To drive is to maneuver, guide, or steerthe progress of a vehicle, animal, etc.: 

to drive a bus, a horse. 

 

To ride is to be carried about by an animal

or be carried as a passenger in a vehicle: 

to ride a horse, a train, a bus.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

Choose the Right Synonym for drive

Verb

Move, Actuate, Drive, Impel 

mean to set or keep in motion.

Move is very general and implies no more than the fact of changing position.  

moved the furniture

Actuate stresses transmission of power so as to work or set in motion.  

turbines actuated by waterpower

Drive implies imparting forward and continuous motion and often stresses the effect rather than the impetus.  

a ship driven aground by hurricane winds

Impel is usually figurative and suggests a great motivating impetus.  

a candidate impelled by ambition 

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

Usage Notes

‘Disc’ and ‘Disk’: Is There a Difference?

Or, why you shouldn’t toss a floppy like a Frisbee.

What to Know

Although disc and disk are listed as variants

for something round and flat in shape,

each one seems to have a preferred usage. 

Disc is seen more often in the music industry 

and throwable objects such as Frisbees, 

 

whereas disk is the preferred spelling in computer-related lingo 

such as floppy disk.

 

In the dictionary, 

disk and disc are shown as variant nouns separated by or, 

which means that they occur with more or less equal frequency 

in edited text. 

But there are some instances 

where one spelling is applied more often than the other.

 

Origins of 'Disc' and 'Disk'

To start from the beginning: 

the word derives from the Latin noun discus, 

which means “quoit, disk, dish.” 

The Greeks spelled this word as diskos,

deriving it from the verb dikein (“to throw”). 

The diskos was a round, flat object 

that Greek athletes would throw for distance 

during the ancient Olympics, 

a sporting tradition that continues in the modern Olympics 

with the spelling discus.

The discus became a useful item of comparison 

for anything having a round, flat shape being called a disc or disk. 

 

But initially there was no consensus among English speakers

on whether to use the Latin-derived spelling (with the c)

or the Greek-derived spelling (with the k).

 

The word found use as a descriptive word

for round heavenly bodies as viewed from the earth, 

as well as for objects of similar shape occurring in nature (as in the body)

 

The modern phonograph, 

an invention credited to Thomas Edison in 1877, 

originally used waxed cylinders,

but the flat “gramophone” discs we use today 

were introduced by Emile Berliner 

and were in regular use by the turn of the century. 

Disc record briefly served as terminology in advertising

that distinguished the flat records from cylinders.

 

Preferences between 'Disc' and 'Disk'

The recording industry showed preference 

for the spelling disc throughout the 20th century, 

though disk showed some use, 

and by the 1940s, 

disc jockey and disk jockey followed analogously. 

 

French adopted disc for phonograph records

to create its word for a music club, discotheque 

(originally a “disc library,” 

following the French word for “library,” bibliotheque). 

We shortened discotheque to disco,

and the 70s music craze known as disco came about from that.

 

The discrepancy between disc and disk 

turned up in other areas of popular culture. 

When the crash of a U.S. military weather balloon

fed speculation about flying saucers near Roswell, New Mexico, 

the local media did not settle on one spelling 

to describe the object that landed in one rancher’s yard. 

“No Details of Flying Disk Are Revealed” read a sub-headline 

on the front page of the July 8, 1947 edition of the Roswell Daily Record, 

while the Carlsbad Daily Current-Argus (July 9, 1947) 

went with “’Flying Disc’ Turns Out to Be Weather Balloon.”

 

In the 1950s, Wham-O marketed the Frisbee,

whose shape alluded to the flying saucers of Roswell 

and science-fiction films; 

flying disc became one preferred generic term for the toy 

(as in the name of the World Flying Disc Federation), 

which is today used in games such as disc golf.

 

The introduction of the home personal computer 

might have helped to introduce a separation between disc and disk 

in the public consciousness. 

 

The recording industry continued to show 

preference for the spelling disc 

when compact discs were introduced as a new digital recording format. 

Like LP records, compact discs were still round, 

which might have encouraged the spelling.

 

Compact discs sound better because they are produced digitally. 

In a computerlike process, 

musical sounds are assigned binary digital codes of 0s and 1s 

that are etched on a 4.7-inch-diameter plastic-and-aluminum disc. 

When the disc is played, a laser beam picks up the coded "pits" of information, and the circuitry turns them back into analog signals.
— David Pauly , Newsweek, 16 Dec. 1985

 

Magnetic computer disks, however, tended toward the spelling disk,

as in floppy disk. 

The floppy disk is placed in a disk drive 

and eventually gave way to what were called diskettes

—contained in a hard plastic case, not as floppy, 

and usually about 3 and a half inches in width. 

Both were square—and even though 

both are pretty much a thing of the past, 

notice that the save icon in many programs 

still resembles a square disk. 

(The CD-ROM, modeled on the audio compact disc, 

is an exception to the spelling pattern.)

 

There is still a great deal of variation across the board, 

but it interesting that disc

—the spelling variant that ends in the round letter

—seems to be preferred for the round objects that play music while disk seems to be the choice for the square computer device.

 

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:

disk or disc (dĭsk)

Usage 

Have you ever noticed that 

when you buy a music CD, it is a compact disc, 

but when you buy a CD in a computer store it is usually a compact disk? 

Sometimes spelling varies according to how a word is used. 

 

Back in the late 19th century, 

when people were developing the technology 

for recording sound on a flat plate 

(what later became the vinyl phonograph record), 

the inventors referred to the plates as discs, 

using an alternate spelling of disk. 

The c spelling eventually became prevalent in the music industry, 

known for its disc jockeys. 

 

When American computer scientists 

developed flat storage devices back in the 1940s, 

they chose the common American spelling disk, 

and this is why we have hard disks installed on our computers. 

When the storage device known as the compact disk was invented, 

people in the music industry saw them as shiny substitutes 

for phonograph records, and they referred to them as compact discs, 

despite the fact that these same discs were compact disks 

when they stored nonmusical data. 

One of the advantages of abbreviations like CD is that 

they make spelling much simpler!

 

Collins COBUILD English Usage:

Disc – disk

1. 'disc' or 'disk': a flat circular object

In British English, a disc is a flat circular object.

A traffic warden pointed out that I had no tax disc on the windscreen.

In American English, this word is spelled disk.

 

2. 'compact disc'

In both British and American English, 

a flat shiny object that stores music is called a compact disc. 

The abbreviation CD is often used.

The soundtrack will be released on compact disc this summer.

 

3. 'disk': computer storage

In both British and American English, 

a disk is a flat circular plate that is used to store large amounts 

of information for use by a computer.

The disk is then slotted into a desktop PC.

The image data may be stored on your hard disk.