Difference between Dish and Plate

What is the difference between Dish and Plate?

Dish as a noun is a vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. while Plate as a noun is a dish from which food is served or eaten.

Dish

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. The contents of such a vessel. A specific type of prepared food. Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal. a type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl, as in satellite dish, radar dish A sexually attractive woman. A sexually attractive person of either sex.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.

Plate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: 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.To score a run.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A dish from which food is served or eaten.The contents of such a dish.A course at a meal.A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.A vehicle license plateA weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.An image or copy.An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.A decorative or food service item coated with silver.A foot, from "plates of meat".Home plate.A tectonic plate.Plate armour.The type of scales covering some kinds of reptile.An electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank

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