different between plate vs stage

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 stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate with Old English stæþþan (“to make staid, stay”), Old Norse steðja (“to place, provide, confirm, allow”), Old English stæde, stede (“state, status, standing, place, station, site”). More at stead.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ste?d??/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Noun

stage (plural stages)

1. A phase.
   • 1986, Daniel Woodrell, Under the Bright Lights p.66

     "They're bikini briefs", Nicole said. "That just means sexy underwear."
     "I though naked was sexy."
     "Well, it is. But sexy comes in stages".
2. (by extension) One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.

3. (theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
   • 1829, Charles Sprague, Curiosity

     Lo! Where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, / Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.

   • 1891, Oscar Wilde:, Intentions

     The theater is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life.

4. A floor or storey of a house.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)

5. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
6. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
7. A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
   • 1711 April 14, Jonathan Swift, letter to Stella

     I went in the sixpenny stage.

   • a parcel sent you by the stage

8. (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
9. (dated) 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.
   • 1807, Francis Jeffrey, "Clarkson on Quakerism", in The Edinburgh Review April 1807

     A stage […] signifies a certain distance on a road.

   • 1858, Samuel Smiles, Robert Stephenson, 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.
10. (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

11. The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.

12. (video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.

    Synonym: level

13. A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
14. (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.

Synonyms

• (phase): tier, level
• (video games): level, map, area, world, track, board, zone, phase

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (sut?ji)

Translations

Verb

stage (third-person singular simple present stages, present participle staging, simple past and past participle staged)

1. (transitive) To produce on a stage, to perform a play.

2. To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.

3. (transitive) To orchestrate; to carry out.

4. (transitive) To place in position to prepare for use.

5. (transitive, medicine) To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
   • 2010, Howard M. Fillit, Kenneth Rockwood, Kenneth Woodhouse, Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (page 940)

     One method of documenting a wound is as follows: (1) stage the ulcer, time present, setting where occurred; (2) describe the location anatomically; (3) measure ulcer in centimeters (length × width × base); […]

6. (rocketry) To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.

Derived terms

• hot-stage

Synonyms

• (demonstrate in a deceptive manner): fake

Translations

Anagrams

• Gates, Geats, agest, e-tags, gates, geats, getas

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French stage

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sta?ge

Noun

stage m (plural stages, diminutive stagetje n)

1. probation, induction
2. apprenticeship
3. internship

Related terms

• stagiair

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin stagium, itself from Old French estage: ester +? -age (whence modern French étage). Cognates and borrowings are common in other European languages, including Italian stage, Czech stáž, Dutch stage, Portuguese estágio and Serbo-Croatian staž.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta?/

Noun

stage m (plural stages)

1. internship, job that a trainee is doing in a workplace until a fixed date
2. probation, induction

Related terms

• stagiaire (trainee)

Descendants

References

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

Anagrams

• gâtes, gâtés

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French stage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta?/

Noun

stage m (invariable)

1. internship

   Synonym: tirocinio

Usage notes

• The noun is often, but incorrectly, pronounced IPA^(key): /?stejd??/ or IPA^(key): /?st?jd??/ via an erroneous connection to English stage. Sometimes the word is also given the meaning of English "stage" (as in a platform where a performance happens).

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French estage, from ester (“to be standing, be located”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta?d?(?)/

Noun

stage (plural stages or stage)

1. A tier of a structure; a floor or storey:
   1. The topmost story of a building; a rooftop.
   2. A deck (surface of a ship)
   3. A floor of a vehicle or on a mount.
2. A raised floor; a platform or podium.
   1. A ledge or shelf (projecting storage platform)
   2. A stage; a platform facing the audience.
   3. A box seat; a premium seat for an audience member.
3. A duration or period; an amount of time.
4. A stage or phase; a sequential part.
5. A tier or grade; a place in a hierarchy.
6. A locale or place; a specified point in space.
7. Heaven (home of (the Christian) God)
8. (rare) The cross-beam of a window.
9. (rare) A seat or chair.
10. (rare) A state of being.

Derived terms

• forstage

Descendants

• English: stage

References

• “st??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2020-01-12.