What's the difference between album and disk?

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."

Disk


Definition:

  • (n.) A discus; a quoit.
  • (n.) A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.
  • (n.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.
  • (n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.
  • (n.) The whole surface of a leaf.
  • (n.) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower.
  • (n.) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil.
  • (n.) The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones.
  • (n.) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk.
  • (n.) In owls, the space around the eyes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
  • (2) These observations suggest that the liver secretes disk-shaped lipid bilayer particles which represent both the nascent form of high density lipoproteins and preferred substrate for lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase.
  • (3) Opsin becomes incorporated into the disk membrane by a process of membrane expansion and fusion to form the flattened disks of the outer segment.
  • (4) Somatic and functional antigens of Dictyocaulus filaria were comparatively studied by means of disk electrophoresis.
  • (5) We performed a prospective study on 68 eyes of 68 patients to compare the vertical cup-disk ratio obtained with the video-ophthalmograph to that obtained with manual analysis of black-and-white stereoscopic photographs.
  • (6) Visible light activates a large guanosine cyclic 3',5'-phosphate (cGMP)- and phosphodiesterase (PDE)-dependent infrared light-scattering change in suspensions of photoreceptor disk membranes.
  • (7) Three disks of different sizes (10, 25, and 45 mm in diameter) were attached to the edge of the baresthesiometer, and pressures of 1, 3 and 5 kg were applied to the 10 mm disk, and 1, 3, 5, and 7 kg to the other disks.
  • (8) The hemolytic characteristics of 14 different polydimethyl-siloxane materials were studied, using a rotating disk device to shear whole human blood for 6000 sec.
  • (9) These optic disk anomalies occurred bilaterally with some inter- and intra-individual variable expressivity.
  • (10) This is the first reported case, to the best of my knowledge, of disk neovascularization occurring after intravenously injected, crushed, unfiltered, methylphenidate HCl tablets.
  • (11) We have investigated the relationship between rhodopsin photochemical function and the retinal rod outer segment (ROS) disk membrane lipid composition using flash photolysis techniques.
  • (12) We found that the Na-Ca exchanger is distributed throughout all membranes in contact with the extracellular space, including the sarcolemma, the transverse tubules (T-tubules), and the intercalated disks.
  • (13) The minimal inhibitory concentration of netilmicin determined by the agar dilution method was correlated with the disk diffusion zone of inhibition against 322 clinical isolates.
  • (14) The initiation step consisting of the binding of RNA with the 36S disk of protein was easily accomplished.
  • (15) The state of the intervertebral disks, intervertebral joints and cerebrospinal canal in degenerative vertebral diseases was assessed.
  • (16) It is concluded that although a rapid automated system for antibiotic sensitivity testing is desirable, the conventional disk agar diffusion method is easier to perform, more reliable, and a less expensive procedure for antibiotic sensitivity determination.
  • (17) The diagnostic accuracy of CT in cases of lumbar disk prolapse was investigated on the basis of a group of 158 of our own patients who were divided into three separate groups.
  • (18) Disk position was assessed inaccurately in either plane in patients with severe degenerative joint disease.
  • (19) Based on the morphology and magnetic anisotropy of the rod outer segment, the major phospholipid peak is attributed to the flat part of the disk membranes while the phospholipids of the plasma membrane are thought to contribute only to the minor peak.
  • (20) QC range for H. Influenzae ATCC 49247 were established using multiple HTM agar and broth base lots, three disk lots for each drug, and a number of test replicates consistent with the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards M23-T guideline.