The difference between Dish and Plate

When used as nouns, dish means a vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle, whereas plate means a flat dish from which food is served or eaten.

When used as verbs, dish means to put in a dish or dishes, 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 Dish and Plate

  1. Dish as a noun:

    A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.

  2. Dish as a noun:

    The contents of such a vessel.

    Examples:

    "a dish of stew"

  3. Dish as a noun (metonym):

    A specific type of prepared food.

    Examples:

    "a vegetable dish'"

    "this dish is filling and easily made"

  4. Dish as a noun (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.

    Examples:

    "It's your turn to wash the dishes."

  5. Dish as a noun (telecommunication):

    A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.

    Examples:

    "satellite dish'"

    "radar dish'"

  6. Dish as a noun (slang):

    A sexually attractive person.

  7. Dish as a noun:

    The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.

    Examples:

    "the dish of a wheel"

  8. Dish as a noun:

    A hollow place, as in a field.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Ogilvie"

  9. Dish as a noun (mining):

    A trough in which ore is measured.

  10. Dish as a noun (mining):

    That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

  11. Dish as a noun (slang):

    Gossip

  1. Dish as a verb (transitive):

    To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.

    Examples:

    "The restaurant dished up a delicious Italian brunch''."

  2. Dish as a verb (informal, slang):

    To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.

  3. Dish as a verb (transitive):

    To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.

    Examples:

    "to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes"

  4. Dish as a verb (slang, archaic, transitive):

    To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

  1. Plate as a noun:

    A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.

    Examples:

    "I filled my plate from the bountiful table."

  2. Plate as a noun (uncountable):

    Such dishes collectively.

  3. Plate as a noun:

    The contents of such a dish.

    Examples:

    "I ate a plate of beans."

  4. Plate as a noun:

    A course at a meal.

    Examples:

    "The meat plate was particularly tasty."

  5. 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."

  6. Plate as a noun:

    A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.

    Examples:

    "A clutch usually has two plates."

  7. Plate as a noun:

    A vehicle license plate.

    Examples:

    "He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could."

  8. 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''."

  9. 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''."

  10. Plate as a noun (dated):

    A decorative or food service item coated with silver.

    Examples:

    "The tea was served in the plate."

  11. 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.

  12. Plate as a noun (printing):

    An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.

    Examples:

    "We finished making the plates this morning."

  13. Plate as a noun (printing, photography):

    An image or copy.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. Plate as a noun (construction):

    A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.

  17. Plate as a noun (Cockney rhyming slang):

    A foot, from "plates of meat".

    Examples:

    "Sit down and give your plates a rest."

  18. Plate as a noun (baseball):

    Home plate.

    Examples:

    "There was a close play at the plate."

  19. Plate as a noun (geology):

    A tectonic plate.

  20. Plate as a noun (historical):

    Plate armour.

    Examples:

    "He was confronted by two knights in full plate."

  21. Plate as a noun (herpetology):

    Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.

  22. Plate as a noun (engineering, electricity):

    A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.

  23. Plate as a noun (engineering, electricity):

    The anode of a vacuum tube.

    Examples:

    "Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying."

  24. Plate as a noun (obsolete):

    Silver, in the form of a coin, or less often silver utensils or dishes (from Spanish plata, silver).

  25. Plate as a noun (heraldic charge):

    A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.

  26. Plate as a noun:

    A prize given to the winner in a contest.

  27. Plate as a noun (chemistry):

    Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.

  28. Plate as a noun (aviation, travel industry, dated):

    A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.

  29. Plate as a noun (aviation, travel industry, by extension):

    The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.

  30. Plate as a noun (Australia):

    A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.

  31. Plate as a noun:

    One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.

  32. Plate as a noun:

    A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.

  33. Plate as a noun (furriers' slang):

    Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.

  34. Plate as a noun (hat-making):

    The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.

  35. Plate as a noun (music):

    A record, usually vinyl.

  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  3. Plate as a verb (baseball):

    To score a run.

    Examples:

    "The single plated the runner from second base."

  4. 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."

  1. Plate as a noun:

    Precious metal, especially silver.

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