Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective resembling a disk in shape; circular and having a height considerably smaller than the diameter.

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  • adjective Resembling a disk or some aspect of one.

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  • adjective having a flat circular shape

Etymologies

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disk +‎ -like

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Examples

  • There is a large component of people who disklike Obama simply because he's black.

    Politics: Criticism or racism 2009

  • The disklike rotation of galaxies indicates the material we see is immersed in a mass distribution.

    Dark Energy Model Explains 'Hubble Sequence' of Galaxies | Universe Today 2010

  • They then saw a silverish disklike object near it.

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • I think some people intensely disklike it when authors anthropomorphize animals period.

    Being Catty 2007

  • Many of the people who post here think I'm on the left, and I confess I rarely have dinner at McDonalds, and my kids really disklike McDonalds.

    The L.A. ban on new fast food restaurants in poor neighborhoods. Ann Althouse 2008

  • I think sceptics tend to be driven by a disklike of what they see as dishonesty.

    To Browsing Undergraduates « Climate Audit 2006

  • I think that the believers tend to be driven by a disklike of corruption, and that their animosity is more driven by moral outrage.

    To Browsing Undergraduates « Climate Audit 2006

  • UFOs sometimes assume the shape of structured disklike craft, but behave unlike familiar physical things; they divide and unite, appear and disappear, make right angle turns at incredible velocities, and behave in a manner more thoughtlike than physical.

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • UFOs sometimes assume the shape of structured disklike craft, but behave unlike familiar physical things; they divide and unite, appear and disappear, make right angle turns at incredible velocities, and behave in a manner more thoughtlike than physical.

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • UFOs sometimes assume the shape of structured disklike craft, but behave unlike familiar physical things; they divide and unite, appear and disappear, make right angle turns at incredible velocities, and behave in a manner more thoughtlike than physical.

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

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