Dish vs. Plate
Dishnoun
A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
Dishnoun
The contents of such a vessel.
Dishnoun
(metonym) A specific type of prepared food.
Dishnoun
(in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
Dishnoun
(telecommunication) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
Dishnoun
(slang) A sexually attractive person.
Dishnoun
The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
Dishnoun
A hollow place, as in a field.
Dishnoun
(mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
Dishnoun
(mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
Dishnoun
(slang) Gossip
Dishverb
(transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
Dishverb
To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
Dishverb
(transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
Dishverb
To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
Dishnoun
A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.
Dishnoun
The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food, especially prepared food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods."
Dishnoun
The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
Dishnoun
A hollow place, as in a field.
Dishnoun
A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.
Dishnoun
anything with a discoid and concave shape, like that of a dish.
Dishnoun
an electronic device with a concave reflecting surface which focuses reflected radio waves to or from a point, used as a receiving or transmitting antenna; also called dish antenna. The dish is often shaped as a paraboloid so as to achieve a high sensitivity and enable reception of weak signals when used as a receiving antenna, or to focus transmitted signals into a narrow beam when used as a transmitting antenna.
Dishnoun
a very attractive woman or young lady, especaially one sexually attractive; - sometimes considered offensive and sexist; as, the departmental secretary is quite a dish.
Dishnoun
a favorite activity, or an activity at which one excels.
Dishnoun
the quantity that a dish will hold, or a dish filled with some material.
Dishverb
To put in a dish, ready for the table.
Dishverb
To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
Dishverb
To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
Dishverb
to talk about (a person) in a disparaging manner; to gossip about (a person); as, the secretaries spent their break time dishing the newest employee.
Dishnoun
a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food;
Dishnoun
a particular item of prepared food;
Dishnoun
the quantity that a dish will hold;
Dishnoun
a very attractive or seductive looking woman
Dishnoun
directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
Dishnoun
an activity that you like or at which you are superior;
Dishverb
provide (usually but not necessarily food);
Dishverb
make concave; shape like a dish
Dishnoun
a shallow, flat-bottomed container for cooking or serving food
Dishnoun
the food contained or served in a dish
Dishnoun
a particular variety or preparation of food served as part of a meal
Dishnoun
all the items that have been used in the preparation, serving, and eating of a meal
Dishnoun
a shallow, concave receptacle, especially one intended to hold a particular substance
Dishnoun
a bowl-shaped radio aerial
Dishnoun
a sexually attractive person
Dishnoun
a thing that one enjoys or does well
Dishnoun
information which is not generally known or available
Dishnoun
concavity of a spoked wheel resulting from a difference in spoke tension on each side and consequent sideways displacement of the rim in relation to the hub.
Dishverb
put food on to a plate or plates before a meal
Dishverb
dispense something in a casual or indiscriminate way
Dishverb
offer or present something, especially something regarded as substandard
Dishverb
subject others to criticism or punishment
Dishverb
gossip or share intimate information
Dishverb
utterly destroy or defeat
Dishverb
give concavity to (a wheel) by tensioning the spokes
Platenoun
A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
Platenoun
(uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
Platenoun
The contents of such a dish.
Platenoun
A course at a meal.
Platenoun
(figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
Platenoun
A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
Platenoun
A vehicle license plate.
Platenoun
A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
Platenoun
A material covered with such a layer.
Platenoun
(dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver.
Platenoun
(weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
Platenoun
(printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
Platenoun
An image or copy.
Platenoun
An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
Platenoun
(dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
Platenoun
(construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
Platenoun
(Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
Platenoun
(baseball) Home plate.
Platenoun
(geology) A tectonic plate.
Platenoun
(historical) Plate armour.
Platenoun
(herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
Platenoun
A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
Platenoun
The anode of a vacuum tube.
Platenoun
(obsolete) A coin, usually a silver coin.
Platenoun
(heraldic charge) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
Platenoun
A prize given to the winner in a contest.
Platenoun
(chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
Platenoun
A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
Platenoun
The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
Platenoun
(Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
Platenoun
One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
Platenoun
A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
Platenoun
(furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
Platenoun
(hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
Platenoun
(music) A record, usually vinyl.
Platenoun
Precious metal, especially silver.
Plateverb
To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
Plateverb
To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
Plateverb
(baseball) To score a run.
Plateverb
To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
Platenoun
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.
Platenoun
Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.
Platenoun
Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.
Platenoun
Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is silver or gold throughout.
Platenoun
A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.
Platenoun
A piece of money, usually silver money.
Platenoun
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.
Platenoun
A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.
Platenoun
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.
Platenoun
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.
Platenoun
A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
Platenoun
A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.
Platenoun
A prize giving to the winner in a contest.
Platenoun
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.
Platenoun
One of the thin parts of the bricket of an animal.
Platenoun
A very light steel racing horsehoe.
Platenoun
Loosely, a sporting contest for a prize; specif., in horse racing, a race for a prize, the contestants not making a stake.
Platenoun
Skins for fur linings of garments, sewed together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
Platenoun
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.
Platenoun
a quantity sufficient to fill a plate; a plateful; a dish containing that quantity; a plate of spaghetti.
Platenoun
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.
Platenoun
a flat dish of glass or plastic with a fitted cover, used for culturing microorganisms in a laboratory.
Platenoun
the identification tag required to be displayed on the outside of a vehicle; same as license plate; - often used in the plural.
Platenoun
an agenda or schedule of tasks to be performed; I have a lot on my plate today.
Plateverb
To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.
Plateverb
To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.
Plateverb
To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.
Plateverb
To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminæ.
Plateverb
To calender; as, to plate paper.
Platenoun
a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
Platenoun
(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score;
Platenoun
a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
Platenoun
dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
Platenoun
the quantity contained in a plate
Platenoun
a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
Platenoun
the thin under portion of the forequarter
Platenoun
a main course served on a plate;
Platenoun
any flat platelike body structure or part
Platenoun
the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
Platenoun
a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
Platenoun
structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
Platenoun
a shallow receptacle for collection in church
Platenoun
a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
Platenoun
a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
Platenoun
the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws;
Plateverb
coat with a layer of metal;
