Plate vs Stage - What's the difference?
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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.
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(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.
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(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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A phase.
* (1800-1859)
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, title= The area, in any theatre, generally raised, upon which an audience watches plays or other public ceremonies.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
* (1791–1875)
A floor or storey of a house.
A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
* (William Cowper) (1731-1800)
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
(label) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
(label) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road.
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, title= (label) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
(label) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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, title= To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
(Of a protest or strike etc.) To carry out.
To cause to pause or wait at a designated location.
Plate is a related term of stage.
As an adjective plate
is (heraldry) (strewn) with plates.As a noun stage is
a phase.As a verb stage is
to produce on a stage, to perform a play.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 ----stage
English
Noun
(en noun)- Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage in the progress of society.
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
- Knights, squires, and steeds must enter on the stage .
- Lo! Where the stage , the poor, degraded stage, / Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.
- (Wyclif)
- a parcel sent you by the stage
- I went in the sixpenny stage .
- A stage signifies a certain distance on a road.
The Life of George Stephenson: Railway Engineer, p.356
- He travelled by gig, with his wife, his favourite horse performing the journey by easy stages .
The Purchase Price, chapter=3 , passage=The Mount Vernon , favoured by a good stage of water, soon cleared the narrow Monongahela channel, passed the confluence, and headed down under full steam, […].}}
- When we are born, we cry that we are come / To this stage of fools.
- Music and ethereal mirth / Wherewith the stage of air and earth did ring.
Bulgaria 0-3 England, passage=Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the international stage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence.}}
Synonyms
* (phase) tier, levelDerived terms
* sage on the stage * stagecoach * stage-door Johnny * stage whisper * staging areaVerb
(en-verb)- The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice".
- The salesman’s demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective.
- We staged the cars to be ready for the start, then waited for the starter to drop the flag.
- to stage data to be written at a later time