The difference between Armor and Plate
When used as nouns, armor means a protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces, whereas plate means a flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
When used as verbs, armor means to equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening, whereas plate means to cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
check bellow for the other definitions of Armor and Plate
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Armor as a noun (uncountable):
A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
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Armor as a noun (uncountable):
A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.
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Armor as a noun (uncountable):
Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.
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Armor as a noun (countable):
A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.
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Armor as a noun (military, uncountable):
A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.
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Armor as a noun (hydrology, uncountable):
The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion.
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Armor as a verb (transitive):
To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening.
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Armor as a verb (transitive):
To provide something with an analogous form of protection.
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Plate as a noun:
A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
Examples:
"I filled my plate from the bountiful table."
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Plate as a noun (uncountable):
Such dishes collectively.
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Plate as a noun:
The contents of such a dish.
Examples:
"I ate a plate of beans."
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Plate as a noun:
A course at a meal.
Examples:
"The meat plate was particularly tasty."
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Plate as a noun (figuratively):
An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
Examples:
"With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate."
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Plate as a noun:
A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
Examples:
"A clutch usually has two plates."
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Plate as a noun:
A vehicle license plate.
Examples:
"He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could."
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Plate as a noun:
A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
Examples:
"The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull''."
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Plate as a noun:
A material covered with such a layer.
Examples:
"If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate''."
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Plate as a noun (dated):
A decorative or food service item coated with silver.
Examples:
"The tea was served in the plate."
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Plate as a noun (weightlifting):
A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
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Plate as a noun (printing):
An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
Examples:
"We finished making the plates this morning."
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Plate as a noun (printing, photography):
An image or copy.
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Plate as a noun (printing, publishing):
An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
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Plate as a noun (dentistry):
A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
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Plate as a noun (construction):
A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
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Plate as a noun (Cockney rhyming slang):
A foot, from "plates of meat".
Examples:
"Sit down and give your plates a rest."
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Plate as a noun (baseball):
Home plate.
Examples:
"There was a close play at the plate."
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Plate as a noun (geology):
A tectonic plate.
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Plate as a noun (historical):
Plate armour.
Examples:
"He was confronted by two knights in full plate."
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Plate as a noun (herpetology):
Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
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Plate as a noun (engineering, electricity):
A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
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Plate as a noun (engineering, electricity):
The anode of a vacuum tube.
Examples:
"Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying."
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Plate as a noun (obsolete):
Silver, in the form of a coin, or less often silver utensils or dishes (from Spanish plata, silver).
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Plate as a noun (heraldic charge):
A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
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Plate as a noun:
A prize given to the winner in a contest.
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Plate as a noun (chemistry):
Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
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Plate as a noun (aviation, travel industry, dated):
A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
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Plate as a noun (aviation, travel industry, by extension):
The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
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Plate as a noun (Australia):
A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
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Plate as a noun:
One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
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Plate as a noun:
A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
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Plate as a noun (furriers' slang):
Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
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Plate as a noun (hat-making):
The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
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Plate as a noun (music):
A record, usually vinyl.
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Plate as a verb:
To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
Examples:
"This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold."
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Plate as a verb:
To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
Examples:
"After preparation, the chef will plate the dish."
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Plate as a verb (baseball):
To score a run.
Examples:
"The single plated the runner from second base."
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Plate as a verb (aviation, travel industry):
To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
Examples:
"Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline."
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Plate as a noun:
Precious metal, especially silver.