different between plate vs ply

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /pla?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English pleit, plit, plite (“a fold, pleat, wrinkle; braid, strand in a braided cord, ply”), from Anglo-Norman pli, plei, pleit, and Middle French pli, ploy, ply (“a fold, pleat; joint in armour; situation, state”) (modern French pli (“a fold, pleat”)), from plier, ployer (“to bend, fold”), from Latin plic?re, present active infinitive of plic? (“to bend, fold, roll up”), from Proto-Indo-European *ple?- (“to fold, plait, weave”).

Noun

ply (countable and uncountable, plural ply or plies or plys)

1. A layer of material.
2. A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
3. (colloquial) Short for plywood.
4. (artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
5. (now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.

Translations

Derived terms

• plywood

Etymology 2

From Middle English pl?en, pli, plie (“to bend, fold, mould, shape; to be flexible; to be submissive, humble oneself; to compel someone to submit”), from Anglo-Norman plier, plaier, pleier, ploier, and Middle French plier, ployer (“to bend, fold; to be submissive; to compel someone to submit”) (modern French plier, ployer), from Old French ploiier, pleier (“to fold”), from Latin plic?re (“to fold”); see further at etymology 1. The word is cognate with Catalan plegar (“to bend, fold”), Italian piegare (“to bend, fold, fold up”), Old Occitan plegar, plejar, pleyar (“to fold”) (modern Occitan plegar), Spanish plegar (“to fold”).

Verb

ply (third-person singular simple present plies, present participle plying, simple past and past participle plied)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.
2. (intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).

Derived terms

• plier (agent noun)
• pliers

Translations

Etymology 3

From apply; compare Middle English pl?en, pli, plie, pleie (“to place (something) around, on, or over, to cover; to apply, use; to strive”), short for apl?en, appl?en (“to combine, join; to attach; to assemble; to use, be of use; to allot; to apply; to inflict; to go; to ply, steer; to comply, submit”), from Old French applier, aplier, aploier (“to bend; to apply”), from Latin applic?re, present active infinitive of applic? (“to apply; to attach, join; to add”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to, towards’”) + plic? (“to bend, fold, roll up”); see further at etymology 1.

Verb

ply (third-person singular simple present plies, present participle plying, simple past and past participle plied)

1. (transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
2. (transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
3. (transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
4. (transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
5. (transitive, intransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To work diligently.
7. (intransitive, nautical, obsolete) To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.

Translations

Noun

ply

1. A bent; a direction.

References

Further reading

• ply (layer) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ply (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia