Plate vs Rod - What's the difference?

plate | rod |

As an adjective plate

is (heraldry) (strewn) with plates.

As a noun rod is

road, roadstead.

plate

English

(wikipedia plate)

Etymology 1

(etyl) plate < .

Noun

(en noun)

A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.

I filled my plate from the bountiful table.

(uncountable) Such dishes collectively.

The contents of such a dish.

I ate a plate of beans.

A course at a meal.

The meat plate was particularly tasty.

(figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities

With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate .

A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.

A clutch usually has two plates .

A vehicle license plate.

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

A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating

The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull .

A material covered with such a layer.

If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate .

(dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver.

The tea was served in the plate .

(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.

We finished making the plates this morning.

(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".

Sit down and give your plates a rest.

(baseball) Home plate.

There was a close play at the plate .

(geology) A tectonic plate.

(historical) Plate armour.

He was confronted by two knights in full plate .

* Milton

mangled through plate and mail

(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.

Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.

(obsolete) A coin, usually a silver coin.

* Shakespeare

Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket.

(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.

Derived terms

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Verb

(plat)

To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.

This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.

To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.

After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.

To perform cunnilingus.

He fingered her as he plated her with his tongue.

(baseball) To score a run.

The single plated the runner from second base.

(aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.

Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.

Derived terms

* electroplate

Etymology 2

(etyl), partly from (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)

Precious metal, especially silver.

* 1864 , Andrew Forrester, The Female Detective :

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

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rod

English

Noun

(en noun)

A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.

:The circus strong man proved his strength by bending an iron rod , and then straightening it.

(fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.

:When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.

A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.

*, II.8:

*:So was I brought up: they tell mee, that in all my youth, I never felt rod but twice, and that very lightly.

An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod , regardless of its actual shape and composition.

:The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod .

A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.

:I notched a rod and used it to measure the length of rope to cut.

(senseid)(archaic) A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, ¼ chain, 5½ yards, 16½ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).

*1842 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’:

*:‘And this thicket, so full of a natural art, was in the immediate vicinity, within a few rods , of the dwelling of Madame Deluc, whose boys were in the habit of closely examining the shrubberies about them in search of the bark of the sassafras.’

*1865 , , '' Cape Cod

*:In one of the villages I saw the next summer a cow tethered by a rope six rods long.

*1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Ch.I:

*:A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, embowered in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."

An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5½ yards.

(archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.

:The house had a small yard of about six rods in size.

A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a drive-shaft.

:The engine threw a rod , and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.

(anatomy) Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.

:The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color.

(biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.

:He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of ''Listeria''.

(chemistry) A stirring rod : a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 1/8 to 1/4 inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.

(slang) A pistol; a gun.

(slang) A penis.

(slang) A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.

(ufology) rod-shaped objects which appear in photographs and videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.

*2000 , Jack Barranger, Paul Tice, Mysteries Explored: The Search for Human Origins, Ufos, and Religious Beginnings , Book Three, p.37:

*:These cylindrical rods fly through the air at incredible speeds and can only be picked up by high-speed cameras.

*2009 , Barry Conrad, An Unknown Encounter: A True Account of the San Pedro Haunting , Dorrance Publishing, pp.129–130:

*:During one such broadcast in 1997, the esteemed radio host bellowed, “I got a fax earlier today from MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) in Arizona and they said what you think are rods are actually insects!”

*2010 , Deena West Budd, The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology: Werewolves, Dragons, Skyfish, Lizard Men, and Other Fascinating Creatures Real and Mysterious , Weiser Books, p.15:

*:He tells of a home video showing a rod flying into the open mouth of a girl singing at a wedding.

(mathematics) A (w).

Synonyms

* See also * See also * (objects in photographs and videos) skyfish

Derived terms

* divining rod * rodbuster * rod for one's back * rodman * rod-shaped * Lightning rod Lightning conductor or rod in OSM *

References

Anagrams

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Verb

To penetrate sexually.

* 1968 , David Lynn, Bull nuts

On impulse he moved around to the opposite side of the couple, in the direction which Grace's broad buttocks were pointed, for a full view of the big boned woman's back side. Now Grace wouldn't mind one iota if he rodded her from the rear.

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