different between plate vs leaf

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: pl?t, IPA^(key): /ple?t/, [p?l?e?t]
• Homophone: plait
• Rhymes: -e?t

Etymology 1

Middle English, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato.

Noun

plate (plural plates)

1. A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.

   I filled my plate from the bountiful table.

2. (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
3. The contents of such a dish.

   I ate a plate of beans.

4. A course at a meal.

   The meat plate was particularly tasty.

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

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

6. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.

   A clutch usually has two plates.

7. A vehicle license plate.

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

8. A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
9. 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.

10. A material covered with such a layer.

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

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

    The tea was served in the plate.

12. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
13. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.

    We finished making the plates this morning.

14. (printing, photography) An image or copy.
15. (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.
16. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
17. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
18. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".

    Sit down and give your plates a rest.

19. (baseball) Home plate.

    There was a close play at the plate.

20. (geology) A tectonic plate.
21. (historical) Plate armour.

    He was confronted by two knights in full plate.

    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 5, p. 248,^[1]

      He hewd, and lasht, and foynd, and thondred blowes,

      And euery way did seeke into his life,

      Ne plate, ne male could ward so mighty throwes,

      But yeilded passage to his cruell knife.

    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 6, lines 366-368,^[2]

      Two potent Thrones, that to be less then Gods

      Disdain’d, but meaner thoughts learnd in thir flight,

      Mangl’d with gastly wounds through Plate and Maile.

22. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
23. (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
24. (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.

    Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.

25. (obsolete) Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes (from Spanish plata (“silver”)).
    • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2,^[3]

      […] realms and islands were

      As plates dropp’d from his pocket.

26. (heraldry) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
27. A prize given to the winner in a contest.
28. (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
29. (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
30. (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
31. (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
32. One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
33. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
34. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
35. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
36. (music) A record, usually vinyl.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Maori: pereti
• ? Hindi: ????? (ple?)

Translations

Verb

plate (third-person singular simple present plates, present participle plating, simple past and past participle plated)

1. 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.

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

   After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.

3. (baseball) To score a run.

   The single plated the runner from second base.

4. (transitive) To arm or defend with metal plates.
5. (transitive) To beat into thin plates.
6. (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.

7. (philately) to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
8. (philately) (particularly with early British stamps) to identify the printing plate used.

Derived terms

• chrome-plated
• chromium-plated
• electroplate
• nickel-plated

Translations

Etymology 2

Middle English, partly from Anglo-Norman plate (“plate, bullion”) and partly from Latin plata (“silver”), from Vulgar Latin *platta (“metal plate”), from feminine of Latin *plattus (“flat”).

Noun

plate (usually uncountable, plural plates)

1. Precious metal, especially silver.
   • 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

• -petal, Patel, leapt, lepta, palet, pelta, petal, pleat, tepal

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plat/

Etymology 1

Adjective

plate

1. feminine singular of plat

Noun

plate f (plural plates)

1. Very small flat boat.

Etymology 2

Adjective

plate (plural plates)

1. (Canada, informal) Annoyingly boring.
2. (Canada, informal) Troublesome.

Anagrams

• palet, pelât, petal, leapt, pleat

Further reading

• “plate” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latvian

Noun

plate f (5th declension)

1. plate
2. table-leaf
3. (music) record
4. (music) disc
5. (computing) board
6. (computing) card
7. (computing) printed circuit board
8. (computing) circuit board

Declension

Synonyms

• d?lis
• pl?ksne
• pl?tne
• (computing) druk?t?s sh?mas plate
• (computing) sh?mas plate

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse plata, from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “broad, flat, wide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla?.te/, [?pla?.t?]

Noun

plate f or m (definite singular plata or platen, indefinite plural plater, definite plural platene)

1. plate (thin, flat object)
2. record (vinyl disc)

Synonyms

• (flat object): skive

Derived terms

• kokeplate
• plateselskap

References

“plate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse plata, from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “broad, flat, wide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²pl??t?/

Noun

plate f (definite singular plata, indefinite plural plater, definite plural platene)

1. plate (thin, flat object)
2. record (vinyl disc)

Synonyms

• (flat object): skive

Derived terms

• kokeplate
• plateselskap

References

“plate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• platte

Etymology

From Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus.

Noun

plate f (oblique plural plates, nominative singular plate, nominative plural plates)

1. a flat metal disk
2. a flat plate of armor

Descendants

• ? Middle English: [Term?]
  • English: plate
    • ? Maori: pereti
    • ? Hindi: ????? (ple?)
  • Scots: plate
• ? Irish: pláta

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (plate)

Scots

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French plate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plet/, or sometimes IPA^(key): /pl?t/ in the Borders

Noun

plate (plural plates)

1. bowl

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

plate (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. inflection of plata:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

plate (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. third-person plural present of platiti

English

Etymology

From Middle English leef, from Old English l?af, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laub? (“leaf”) (compare West Frisian leaf, Low German Loov, Dutch loof, German Laub, Danish løv, Swedish löv, Norwegian Nynorsk lauv), from Proto-Indo-European *lowb?-o-m, from *lewb?- (“leaf, rind”) (compare Irish luibh (“herb”), Latin liber (“bast; book”), Lithuanian lúoba (“bark”), Albanian labë (“rind”), Latvian luba (“plank, board”), Russian ??? (lub, “bast”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?f, IPA^(key): /li?f/
• Rhymes: -i?f
• Homophones: Leith (with th-fronting), lief

Noun

leaf (countable and uncountable, plural leaves)

1. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
2. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
3. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.

4. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).

   Synonyms: folio, folium

5. (advertising, dated) Two pages.
   • 1900, Profitable Advertising (volume 10, issue 2, page 893)

     Heretofore advertisers have had to buy and pay for a leaf — two pages.

6. (in the plural) Tea leaves.
7. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
9. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.

   Hyponym: doorleaf

   Meronym: stile

10. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
11. (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
    • 2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed

      The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

12. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
13. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
14. (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
15. (Internet slang, derogatory) A Canadian person.

Synonyms

• phyllon

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

leaf (third-person singular simple present leafs, present participle leafing, simple past and past participle leafed)

1. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
2. (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.

   The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.

Synonyms

• leave (verb)

Derived terms

• leafing
• leaf through

Translations

See also

• foliage
• frond
• needle

Further reading

• leaf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• leaf (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• leaf in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• leaf at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

Anagrams

• Lafe, alef, feal, flea

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læ???f/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *laub?. Cognate with West Frisian leaf, Old Saxon l?f, Old High German loup, Old Norse lauf, Gothic ???????????????????? (laufs).

Noun

l?af n

1. leaf
2. page

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: leef, lefe, leve, lewe
  • English: leaf
  • Scots: leaf, lefe, leif
  • Yola: laafe

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *laub?. Cognate with Old High German *louba (German Laube).

Noun

l?af f

1. permission

Declension

Descendants

• English: leave

Scots

Etymology

From Old English l?af.

Noun

leaf (plural leafs)

1. leaf

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???f/

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian l?f

Noun

leaf n (plural leaven, diminutive leafke)

1. leaf, especially a long leaf, like a blade of grass

Further reading

• “leaf (IV)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian li?f

Adjective

leaf

1. friendly, kind, cordial

Inflection

Derived terms

• leafde
• leavehearsbistke

Further reading

• “leaf (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011