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Medal vs Plaque - What's the difference?

medal | plaque |

As nouns the difference between medal and plaque

is that medal is a stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object while plaque is any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.

As a verb medal

is to win a medal.

medal

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.
  • *, II.i.3:
    • Whether their images, shrines, relics, consecrated things, holy water, medals , benedictions, those divine amulets, holy exorcisms, and the sign of the cross, be available in this disease?
  • A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward.

    • Derived terms

    * gold medal: a medal designed for first-place winners * silver medal: a medal designed for second-place winners * bronze medal: a medal designed for third-place winners * tea and medals

    Related terms

    * medallic * medallion * medallist * medallurgy * medalet

    Verb

  • (sports, very, colloquial) To win a medal.
    • "He medalled twice at the Olympics"
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    plaque

    English

    Noun

  • Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.
  • A piece of flat metal with a writing on it, attached to a building to remind people of a person or an event
  • (uncountable) An accumulation of biofilm, or bacteria on teeth.
  • (uncountable, medicine) Atheroma, an accumulation in artery walls made up of macrophage cells and debris containing lipids, (cholesterol and fatty acids), calcium, and connective tissue.
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  • (biology) A clearing in a bacterial lawn caused by a virus.

    • See also

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