Disk vs. Plate

Disk and Plate Definitions
Disk
A thin, flat, circular object or plate.
Plate
A smooth, flat, relatively thin, rigid body of uniform thickness.
Disk
Something resembling such an object
The moon's disk was reflected in the pond.
Plate
A sheet of hammered, rolled, or cast metal.
Disk
The disk used in a disc brake.
Plate
A very thin applied or deposited coat of metal.
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Disk
A disk used on a disk harrow.
Plate
A flat piece of metal forming part of a machine
A boiler plate.
Disk
A round, flattened structure in a plant or animal, such as an intervertebral disk.
Plate
A flat piece of metal on which something is engraved.
Disk
(Botany) The central area bearing numerous disk flowers in the flower head of a composite plant such as a daisy.
Plate
A license plate
A car with Utah plates.
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Disk
An optical disc, especially a compact disc.
Plate
A thin piece of metal used for armor.
Disk
A magnetic disk, such as a floppy disk or hard disk.
Plate
Armor made of such pieces.
Disk
The data stored on such objects.
Plate
A sheet of metal, plastic, rubber, paperboard, or other material prepared for use as a printing surface, such as an electrotype or a stereotype.
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Disk
A phonograph record.
Plate
A print of a woodcut, lithograph, or other engraved material, especially when reproduced in a book.
Disk
A circular grid in a phototypesetting machine.
Plate
A full-page book illustration, often in color and printed on paper different from that used for text pages.
Disk
To work (soil) with a disk harrow.
Plate
(Photography) A light-sensitive sheet of glass or metal on which a photographic image can be recorded.
Disk
To make (a recording) on a phonograph record.
Plate
(Dentistry) A thin metallic or plastic support fitted to the gums to anchor artificial teeth.
Disk
A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
A coin is a disk of metal.
Plate
(Architecture) In wood-frame construction, a horizontal member that bears a load, as of a roof or a wall.
Disk
(figuratively) Something resembling a disk.
Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
Plate
(Baseball) Home plate.
Disk
(anatomy) An intervertebral disc
Plate
A shallow dish in which food is served or from which it is eaten.
Disk
(dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
Plate
The contents of such a dish
Ate a plate of spaghetti.
Disk
(computer hardware) floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.
He still uses floppy disks from 1979.
Plate
A whole course served on such a dish.
Disk
A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium.
She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.
Plate
Service and food for one person at a meal
Dinner at a set price per plate.
Disk
(agriculture) A type of harrow.
Plate
Household articles, such as hollowware, covered with a precious metal, such as silver or gold.
Disk
(botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
Plate
A dish passed among the members of a group or congregation for the collection of offerings.
Disk
(agriculture) To harrow.
Plate
A dish, cup, or other article of silver or gold offered as a prize.
Disk
To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximising the drag generated by the propeller.
Plate
A contest, especially a horserace, offering such a prize.
Disk
A discus; a quoit.
Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart.
Plate
A thin cut of beef from underneath the ribs, including the diaphragm muscle.
Disk
A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.
Plate
A thin flat layer or scale, as that of a fish.
Disk
The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.
Plate
A platelike part, organ, or structure, such as that covering some reptiles.
Disk
A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.
Plate
An electrode, as in a storage battery or capacitor.
Disk
The whole surface of a leaf.
Plate
The anode in an electron tube.
Disk
The anterior surface or oral area of clenterate animals, as of sea anemones.
Plate
(Geology) See tectonic plate.
Disk
Something with a round shape like a flat circular plate
Plate
(Informal) A schedule of matters to be dealt with
Had a lot on my plate at work after vacation.
Disk
A flat circular plate
Plate
To coat or cover with a thin layer of metal.
Disk
Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves
Plate
To cover with armor plate
Plate a warship.
Disk
(computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
Plate
(Printing) To make a stereotype or electrotype from.
Disk
Draw a harrow over (land)
Plate
To give a glossy finish to (paper) by pressing between metal sheets or rollers.
Plate
To arrange (food) on a plate, as for serving
"a choice of starters, entrées, and desserts plated just as they will appear when ordered" (John Edward Young).
Plate
(Baseball) To cause (a run) to be scored or (a runner) to cross home plate, as by a hit.
Plate
A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
Plate
(uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
Plate
The contents of such a dish.
I ate a plate of beans.
Plate
A course at a meal.
The meat plate was particularly tasty.
Plate
(figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.
Plate
A flat object of uniform thickness.
The most important and most expensive part of any solar cell is a silicon plate.
Plate
A vehicle license plate.
He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
Plate
A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
Plate
(historical) Plate armor.
He was confronted by two knights in full plate.
Plate
A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull.
Plate
A material covered with such a layer.
If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.
Plate
(dated) An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.
The tea was served in the plate.
Plate
(weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
Plate
(printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
We finished making the plates this morning.
Plate
An image or copy.
Plate
An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
Plate
(dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
Plate
(construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
Plate
(Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
Sit down and give your plates a rest.
Plate
(baseball) Home plate.
There was a close play at the plate.
Plate
(geology) A tectonic plate.
Plate
(herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
Plate
A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
Plate
The anode of a vacuum tube.
Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.
Plate
A prize given to the winner in a contest.
Plate
(chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
Plate
A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
Plate
The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
Plate
(Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
Plate
One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
Plate
A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
Plate
(furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
Plate
(hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
Plate
(music) A record, usually vinyl.
Plate
(military) trauma plate.
The SAPI plate in his vest protected him from the bullet's impact.
Plate
Precious metal, especially silver.
Plate
(obsolete) Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes.
Plate
(heraldic charge) A roundel of silver or argent.
Plate
To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.
Plate
To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.
Plate
(baseball) To score a run.
The single plated the runner from second base.
Plate
(transitive) To arm or defend with metal plates.
Plate
(transitive) To beat into thin plates.
Plate
To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.
Plate
(philately) to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
Plate
(philately) (particularly with early British stamps) to identify the printing plate used.
Plate
A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.
Plate
Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.
Mangled . . . through plate and mail.
Plate
Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.
Plate
Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is silver or gold throughout.
Plate
A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.
Plate
A piece of money, usually silver money.
Plate
A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate.
Plate
A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.
Plate
That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc.
Plate
A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters.
Plate
A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
Plate
A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.
Plate
A prize giving to the winner in a contest.
Plate
A small five-sided area (enveloping a diamond-shaped area one foot square) beside which the batter stands and which must be touched by some part of a player on completing a run; - called also home base, or home plate.
Plate
One of the thin parts of the bricket of an animal.
Plate
A very light steel racing horsehoe.
Plate
Loosely, a sporting contest for a prize; specif., in horse racing, a race for a prize, the contestants not making a stake.
Plate
Skins for fur linings of garments, sewed together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
Plate
The fine nap (as of beaver, hare's wool, musquash, nutria, or English black wool) on a hat the body of which is of an inferior substance.
Plate
A quantity sufficient to fill a plate; a plateful; a dish containing that quantity; a plate of spaghetti.
Plate
The food and service supplied to a customer at a restaurant; as, the turkey dinner is $9 a plate; I'll have a plate of spaghetti.
Plate
A flat dish of glass or plastic with a fitted cover, used for culturing microorganisms in a laboratory.
Plate
The identification tag required to be displayed on the outside of a vehicle; same as license plate; - often used in the plural.
Plate
An agenda or schedule of tasks to be performed; I have a lot on my plate today.
Plate
To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.
Plate
To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.
Thus plated in habiliments of war.
Plate
To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.
Plate
To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminæ.
Plate
To calender; as, to plate paper.
Plate
A sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
Plate
(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score;
He ruled that the runner failed to touch home
Plate
A full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
Plate
Dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
Plate
The quantity contained in a plate
Plate
A rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
Plate
The thin under portion of the forequarter
Plate
A main course served on a plate;
A vegetable plate
The blue plate special
Plate
Any flat platelike body structure or part
Plate
The positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
Plate
A flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
Plate
Structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
Plate
A shallow receptacle for collection in church
Plate
A metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
Plate
A dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
Plate
The position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws;
A catcher needs a lot of protective equipment
He plays behind the plate
Plate
Coat with a layer of metal;
Plate spoons with silver