Love vs Plate - What's the difference?
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(label) Strong affection.
# An intense feeling of affection and care towards another person.
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# A deep or abiding liking for something.
# A profound and caring attraction towards someone.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(countable) The object of one’s romantic feelings; a darling or sweetheart.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
(colloquial)
(euphemistic) A sexual desire; sexual activity.
*1986, Ben Elton & al., ":
*:—What think you, my lord, of... love ?
*:—You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.
(obsolete) A thin silk material.
* 1664 , (Robert Boyle), Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours,
A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba .
To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
* 2013 February 26, and (Nate Ruess), (Just Give Me a Reason) :
To need, thrive on.
(colloquial) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like .
To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
* John 3:16
* Matthew: 37-38
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, title= To derive delight from a fact or situation.
To lust for.
(euphemistic) To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.)
To praise; commend.
To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.
(racquet sports) Zero, no score.
* The Field
* John Betjeman, A Subaltern's Love Song
A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
(uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
The contents of such a dish.
A course at a meal.
(figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
A vehicle license plate.
A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
A material covered with such a layer.
(dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver.
(weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
(printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
(printing, photography) An image or copy.
(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.
(dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
(construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
(Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
(baseball) Home plate.
(geology) A tectonic plate.
(historical) Plate armour.
* Milton
(herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
(engineering, electricity) An electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
(engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
(obsolete) A coin, usually a silver coin.
* Shakespeare
(heraldiccharge) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
A prize given to the winner in a contest.
(chemistry) Any flat piece of material like coated glass or plastic.
To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
To perform cunnilingus.
(baseball) To score a run.
(aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
Precious metal, especially silver.
* 1864 , Andrew Forrester, The Female Detective :
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As a noun love
is money.As an adjective plate is
(heraldry) (strewn) with plates.love
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . The closing-of-a-letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like. The verb is from (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
- He on his side / Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured.
- Open the temple gates unto my love .
- Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love -Hood.
Synonyms
* (sense) baby, darling, lover, pet, sweetheart, honey, love bird * (term of address) mate, lover. darling, sweetyAntonyms
* (strong affection) hate, hatred, angst; malice, spite * (absence of love) indifferenceVerb
(lov)- I wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.
- Just give me a reason, / just a little bit's enough, / just a second we're not broken, just bent / and we can learn to love again.
- For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- You shall love' the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole mind, and your whole soul; you shall ' love your neighbor as yourself.
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Antonyms
* hate, despiseDerived terms
* all's fair in love and war * cupboard love * in love * I love you * fall in love * first love * lady love * love affair * love at first sight * love bird/lovebird * love bite/lovebite * love bomb * love bug * lovebunny * love child * loved-up * love egg * love feast * love game * love grass * love handle * love-hate * love-in * love-in-a-mist * love is blind * love life * lovely * love-making * love match * love nest * love potion * lover * love rat * lovertine * love seat * loveship * love-shyness * lovesick * love song * lovestone * love story * love tap * love toy * love triangle * lovey-dovey * loving kindness * loyal love * make love * unrequited love * no love lost * puppy love * tough love * true love * unconditional loveSee also
* charityEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . See also (l).Verb
(lov)Etymology 3
From the phrase Neither for love nor for money , meaning "nothing". The previously held belief that it originated from the (etyl) term , due to its shape, is no longer widely accepted.Noun
(-)- So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
- He won the match by three sets to love .
- Love -thirty, love-forty, oh! weakness of joy, / The speed of a swallow, the grace of a boy, / With carefullest carelessness, gaily you won, / I am weak from your loveliness, Joan Hunter Dunn.
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English
(wikipedia plate)Etymology 1
(etyl) plate < .Noun
(en noun)- I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
- I ate a plate of beans.
- The meat plate was particularly tasty.
- With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate .
- A clutch usually has two plates .
- He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
- The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull .
- If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate .
- The tea was served in the plate .
- We finished making the plates this morning.
- Sit down and give your plates a rest.
- There was a close play at the plate .
- He was confronted by two knights in full plate .
- mangled through plate and mail
- Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.
- Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket.
Derived terms
* * * * * * *Verb
(plat)- This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.
- After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.
- He fingered her as he plated her with his tongue.
- The single plated the runner from second base.
- Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.
Derived terms
* electroplateEtymology 2
(etyl), partly from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- At every meal—and I have heard the meals at Petleighcote were neither abundant nor succulent—enough plate stood upon the table to pay for the feeding of the poor of the whole county for a month
- At the northern extremity of this chill province the gold plate of the Groans, pranked across the shining black of the long table, smoulders as though it contains fire