Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a disc or some aspect of one.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a flat circular shape

Etymologies

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disc +‎ -like

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Examples

  • He imagined that very few people in history had actually seen this carving up close, since it was designed to sit so high above the populace—but up close, the carved image of the disclike Sun looked odd, as if it were not a carved image but rather…well…aplug in the stone.

    Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

  • He imagined that very few people in history had actually seen this carving up close, since it was designed to sit so high above the populace—but up close, the carved image of the disclike Sun looked odd, as if it were not a carved image but rather…well…aplug in the stone.

    Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

  • He imagined that very few people in history had actually seen this carving up close, since it was designed to sit so high above the populace—but up close, the carved image of the disclike Sun looked odd, as if it were not a carved image but rather…well…aplug in the stone.

    Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

  • CAPTAIN KIRK leaned forward in his seat, adrenaline pumping, as he watched a disclike vessel weave between green foothills and towering spires in a desperate attempt to elude them.

    Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992

  • CAPTAIN KIRK leaned forward in his seat, adrenaline pumping, as he watched a disclike vessel weave between green foothills and towering spires in a desperate attempt to elude them.

    Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992

  • CAPTAIN KIRK leaned forward in his seat, adrenaline pumping, as he watched a disclike vessel weave between green foothills and towering spires in a desperate attempt to elude them.

    Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992

  • Under these disclike roofs, the building is a chain of interconnected pavilions and outdoor terraces surrounding a large open-air courtyard, a layout that evokes caravanserais, shelters that were built along the old trade routes.

    NYT > Home Page By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF 2010

  • Inspired by sand roses, the tiny formations that crystallize just below the desert's surface, the building's dozens of disclike forms, intersecting at odd angles and piling up unevenly atop one another, celebrate a delicate beauty in the desert landscape that is invisible to those who have not spent time there.

    NYT > Home Page By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF 2010

  • The building's disclike forms are inspired by sand roses.

    NYT > Home Page By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF 2010

  • He cheap hotels milford unorganized febricity, is a pestilent noisemaker in haemogenesis, an telemetered ahuehuete rimbaud and a disclike origen.

    Rational Review 2009

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