What's the difference between album and disc?

Album


Definition:

  • (n.) A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.
  • (n.) A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.
  • (n.) A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
  • (2) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
  • (3) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
  • (4) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
  • (5) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
  • (6) Yes, the third album was a success but we've worked so hard on this one."
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Beyoncé’s last album was an iTunes exclusive, with videos for every track.
  • (8) Of course, the great British countryside was never as twee as that – a point made forcibly by the second album from mysterious electronic collective Hacker Farm .
  • (9) Visconti – who has now produced 13 Bowie albums – said he was surprised with the decision to make Where Are We Now?
  • (10) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (11) The appearance of a band with lean, spiky songs, high cheekbones and excellent trousers was therefore the cause of considerable excitement, to which they mischievously alluded in the title of their debut album, Is This It.
  • (12) And when the album from which those songs are taken, The Next Day , was released last week it went straight to No 1 on iTunes.
  • (13) Less than five months after the release of Closer to the Truth, the singer seems resigned to the album's current profile, tweeting, "It's OK".
  • (14) Love Streams, his new album of beat-free, long-form compositions, is complex, evocative, arrestingly beautiful and disquietingly intense.
  • (15) At this time, the BPI was running its famous Home Taping Is Killing Music campaign, following concerns that cassettes would aid the infringement of copyright and a decline in album sales.
  • (16) In the lead-up to her new album, Sheezus, Allen has repeatedly complained about pressure when picking radio singles.
  • (17) No, what swung it for us was their debut album, An Awesome Wave, which has been rapturously received.
  • (18) Lepocreadium album (Stossich, 1890) Stossich, 1904 is redescribed, figured and recorded for the first time in Blennius pavo.
  • (19) Having bought the album as a present for her 12-year-old daughter, Tipper Gore, wife of Al, was horrified by the lyrics to Darling Nikki.
  • (20) Gaga: "This award means even more to me because I worked so hard on this album for so long and I think about all the songs that I wrote and all the years that went by and all the rejection and how my fans were the first people to believe in me."

Disc


Definition:

  • (n.) A flat round plate
  • (n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
  • (2) Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented.
  • (3) It is suggested that the intercalated disc functioned as a barrier to the freezing process.
  • (4) The increased release of alkaline phosphatase from the particulate matrix by lysophosphatidylcholine was confirmed by disc electrophoresis.
  • (5) The correlation of posterior intervertebral (facet) joint tropism (asymmetry), degenerative facet disease, and intervertebral disc disease was reviewed in a retrospective study of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine from 100 patients with complaints of low back pain and sciatica.
  • (6) Patients should be evaluated by perimetry using an appropriate strategy and contrast sensitivity testing, along with careful examination of the optic discs.
  • (7) Albumin was highly purified from a commercially available rat albumin preparation (Fraction V) using disc electrophoresis.
  • (8) The intervertebral discs expand centrally and become increasingly convex.
  • (9) The average repetitive yields and initial coupling of proteins spotted or blotted into PVDF membranes ranged between 84-98% and 30-108% respectively, and were comparable with the yields measured for proteins spotted onto Polybrene-coated glass fiber discs.
  • (10) The most frequently occurring signs were: tilting of the disc (89%), oblique direction of the vessels (89%) and myopic astigmatism (96%).
  • (11) Clinical findings and operative results of 212 operated cases of disc protrusion are analyzed in this paper.
  • (12) The initial effects of chymopapain, a chemonucleolytic agent, on the intervertebral disc of dogs were studied by light and electron microscopic techniques.
  • (13) Astrocytes nearer the optic disc showed the stellate shape characteristic of mature cells.
  • (14) Chemonucleolysis is a procedure in which an enzyme is injected into the intervertebral disc for the purpose of alleviating sciatic pain.
  • (15) Existing visual field defects in three patients were slightly aggravated and in four patients, with a pathological optic disc, visual field loss developed.
  • (16) Immunohistochemical studies support earlier reports of a rich nerve supply to the posterior longitudinal ligament, a less developed innervation of the anterior ligament and the outermost annular ring, and a total lack of innervation in deeper parts of the intervertebral disc.
  • (17) We analyzed 80 consecutive cases of lumbar disc herniation who underwent an extraperitoneal anterolateral discectomy according to clinical and radiologic parameters.
  • (18) The disc-gel patterns of the 8 m urea-soluble proteins showed that C. perfringens caused extensive proteolysis in pig muscle and a lesser extent of proteolysis in rabbit muscle.
  • (19) The cervical discogenic (painful disc) syndrome consists of scapular pain radiating to the head, shoulder and upper arm, often associated with paraesthesiae but without neurological deficit.
  • (20) Manganous chloride and Congo red incorporated into blotting paper discs have been used to differentiate gonococci from meningococci.