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Strip vs Plate - What's the difference?

strip | plate |

As nouns the difference between strip and plate

is that strip is material in long, thin pieces while plate is a flat dish from which food is served or eaten.

As verbs the difference between strip and plate

is that strip is to remove or take away while 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.

strip

English

Etymology 1

From alteration of

Noun

  • (countable, uncountable) Material in long, thin pieces.
  • * , chapter=19
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
  • A comic strip.
  • A landing strip.
  • A strip steak.
  • A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
  • (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
  • (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
  • Striptease.
  • (mining) A trough for washing ore.
  • The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
    • (Farrow)
    Derived terms
    * bimetal strip * clip strip * comic strip * electronic strip * landing strip * * nature strip * rubbing strip * strip cartoon * strip mall

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Verb

  • To remove or take away.
    • Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
  • (usually) To take off clothing.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date = 21 August 2012 , first = Ed , last = Pilkington , title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true , page = , passage = The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip , threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."}}
  • To perform a striptease.
  • To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
  • * Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 23
    • They stripped Joseph out of his coat.
  • * Macaulay
    • opinions which no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown
  • * The robbers stripped Norm of everything he owned.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped ; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip' it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".}}
    • '2013 , Paul Harris, ''Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession'' (in
    The Guardian     , 19 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/19/lance-armstrong-legal-challenges-confession]
    After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the man stripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.
  • To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
    • The thread is stripped .
  • To remove the thread or teeth from (a screw, nut, or gear).
    • The screw is stripped .
  • To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
  • To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
  • (bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
  • To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
  • To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
  • (television) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
  • (agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
  • (obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
  • * Chapman
    • when first they stripped the Malean promontory
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stripped him.
  • To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
  • To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
  • To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
    • Synonyms
    * deprive * peel * uncover
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "strip")
    Derived terms
    * strip away * strip down * strip off * striptease * stripped down * stripper
    References
    * OED 2nd edition 1989 * Funk&Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary

    External links

    * (wikipedia "strip") *

    Anagrams

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    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
    * * * * * * *

    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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