Plate vs Plute - What's the difference?
plate | plute |
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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(colloquial, Australia, US) A plutocrat, especially a rich industrialist.
* 1909 , Western Federation of Miners, Miner?s Magazine ,
* 1915 , , Michael O?Halloran , 2006, Echo Library,
* 1917 , New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates ,
* 1917 October 4, People'', quoted in 1989, John Gunn, ''Along Parallel Lines: A History of the Railways of New South Wales ,
* 1938 , , 2010,
* 1993 , Frank Cain, The Wobblies at War: A History of the IWW and the Great War in Australia ,
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 104:
As nouns the difference between plate and plute
is that plate is a flat dish from which food is served or eaten while plute is a plutocrat, especially a rich industrialist.As a verb plate
is to cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.As a proper noun Plate
is the River Plate.As an adjective platé
is semé (strewn) with plates.plate
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
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----plute
English
Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)page 95,
- As a result, the plutes are in a panic.
page 224,
- “Exactly what the plutes' are doing,” said Mickey. “Gee, Junior, if your Pa does all the things he said he was going to, you'll be a ' plute yourself!”
- “Never heard him say anything in my life he didn?t do,” said Junior, “and didn?t you notice that he put you in too? You?ll be just as much of a plute as I will.”
page 153,
- Then one of the papers — the Wellington Truth — had a paragraph in it that on account of the strike being settled I was deprived of that trip to represent the “plutes ” in Australia — so easily can one?s action be misconstrued and misunderstood.
page 287,
- Against the workers were arrayed the whole forces of Australian Capitalism — plutes (sic ), press, politicians, pulpits and all the powers and forces of the State and Federal Government, with the Courts and all the forces of repression behind the State Capitalist Government.
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- And they can?t export it, because, Australia bein? a workin? man?s paradise, which is better than it bein? a paradise for Plutes , their cost of production is too high for competition with countries where labour is sweated.
page 180,
- but then the prostitutes of the plute press are always cunning flunkeys of the Most High.
- Straight talk. No double-talking you like the plutes do, ’cause with them what you always have to be listening for is the opposite of what they say.