Plate vs. Pad
Platenoun
A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
‘I filled my plate from the bountiful table.’;
Padnoun
A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
Platenoun
(uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
Padnoun
A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
Platenoun
The contents of such a dish.
‘I ate a plate of beans.’;
Padnoun
A soft, or small, cushion.
Platenoun
A course at a meal.
‘The meat plate was particularly tasty.’;
Padnoun
A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
Platenoun
(figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
‘With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.’;
Padnoun
The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
Platenoun
A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
‘A clutch usually has two plates.’;
Padnoun
Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
Platenoun
A vehicle license plate.
‘He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.’;
Padnoun
A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
Platenoun
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.’;
Padnoun
A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
Platenoun
A material covered with such a layer.
‘If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.’;
Padnoun
A sanitary napkin.
Platenoun
(dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver.
‘The tea was served in the plate.’;
Padnoun
(US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
Platenoun
(weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
Padnoun
(cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
Platenoun
(printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
‘We finished making the plates this morning.’;
Padnoun
A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
Platenoun
An image or copy.
Padnoun
A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
Platenoun
An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
Padnoun
A keypad.
Platenoun
(dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
Padnoun
A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
Platenoun
(construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
Padnoun
An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord"
Platenoun
(Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
‘Sit down and give your plates a rest.’;
Padnoun
The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
Platenoun
(baseball) Home plate.
‘There was a close play at the plate.’;
Padnoun
A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
Platenoun
(geology) A tectonic plate.
Padnoun
A bed.
Platenoun
(historical) Plate armour.
‘He was confronted by two knights in full plate.’;
Padnoun
(colloquial) A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
Platenoun
(herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
Padnoun
A prison cell.
Platenoun
A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
Padnoun
(cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
Platenoun
The anode of a vacuum tube.
‘Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.’;
Padnoun
A mousepad.
Platenoun
(obsolete) A coin, usually a silver coin.
Padnoun
(electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
Platenoun
(heraldic charge) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
Padnoun
(nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
Platenoun
A prize given to the winner in a contest.
Padnoun
A toad.
Platenoun
(chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
Padnoun
A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track. See footpad.
Platenoun
A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
Padnoun
An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
Platenoun
The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
Padnoun
A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
Platenoun
(Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
Padnoun
A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
Platenoun
One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
Padnoun
The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
Platenoun
A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
Padverb
(transitive) To stuff.
Platenoun
(furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
Padverb
(transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
Platenoun
(hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
Padverb
(transitive) To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
‘The author began to pad her succinct stories with trite descriptions to keep up with current market trends.’; ‘"Obama pads delegate lead ... with win in key western state." Austin American-Statesman newspaper, May 21, 2008.’; ‘pad one's expenses.’;
Platenoun
(music) A record, usually vinyl.
Padverb
(transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
‘to pad cloth''’;
Platenoun
Precious metal, especially silver.
Padverb
To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
Plateverb
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.’;
Padverb
(transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
Plateverb
To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
‘After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.’;
Padverb
(intransitive) To travel on foot.
Plateverb
(baseball) To score a run.
‘The single plated the runner from second base.’;
Padverb
(intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
Plateverb
To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
‘Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.’;
Padverb
(intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
Platenoun
A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.
Padverb
To practise highway robbery.
Platenoun
Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.
‘Mangled . . . through plate and mail.’;
Padinterjection
Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
‘I heard her soft footsteps, pad, pad along the corridor.’;
Platenoun
Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.
Padnoun
A footpath; a road.
Platenoun
Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is silver or gold throughout.
Padnoun
An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
‘An abbot on an ambling pad.’;
Platenoun
A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.
Padnoun
A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; - usually called a footpad.
Platenoun
A piece of money, usually silver money.
Padnoun
The act of robbing on the highway.
Platenoun
A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate.
Padnoun
A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.
Platenoun
A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.
Padnoun
A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper.
Platenoun
That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc.
Padnoun
A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
Platenoun
A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters.
Padnoun
A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
Platenoun
A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
Padnoun
A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.
Platenoun
A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.
Padnoun
A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
Platenoun
A prize giving to the winner in a contest.
Padnoun
A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
Platenoun
A small five-sided area (enveloping a diamond-shaped area one foot square) beside which the batter stands and which must be touched by some part of a player on completing a run; - called also home base, or home plate.
Padnoun
A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
Platenoun
One of the thin parts of the bricket of an animal.
Padnoun
A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles.
Platenoun
A very light steel racing horsehoe.
Padnoun
A dwelling place, usually an apartment; one's living quarters; as, come over to my pad to watch the game.
Platenoun
Loosely, a sporting contest for a prize; specif., in horse racing, a race for a prize, the contestants not making a stake.
Padnoun
A sum of money paid as a bribe to police officers, shared among them;
Platenoun
Skins for fur linings of garments, sewed together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
Padverb
To travel upon foot; to tread.
‘Padding the streets for half a crown.’;
Platenoun
The fine nap (as of beaver, hare's wool, musquash, nutria, or English black wool) on a hat the body of which is of an inferior substance.
Padverb
To travel heavily or slowly.
Platenoun
a quantity sufficient to fill a plate; a plateful; a dish containing that quantity; a plate of spaghetti.
Padverb
To rob on foot.
Platenoun
the food and service supplied to a customer at a restaurant; as, the turkey dinner is $9 a plate; I'll have a plate of spaghetti.
Padverb
To wear a path by walking.
Platenoun
a flat dish of glass or plastic with a fitted cover, used for culturing microorganisms in a laboratory.
Padverb
To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.
Platenoun
the identification tag required to be displayed on the outside of a vehicle; same as license plate; - often used in the plural.
Padverb
To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth.
Platenoun
an agenda or schedule of tasks to be performed; I have a lot on my plate today.
Padnoun
a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge
Plateverb
To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.
Padnoun
the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily)
Plateverb
To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.
‘Thus plated in habiliments of war.’;
Padnoun
a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp
Plateverb
To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.
Padnoun
a usually thin flat mass of padding
Plateverb
To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminæ.
Padnoun
a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched
Plateverb
To calender; as, to plate paper.
Padnoun
temporary living quarters
Platenoun
a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
Padnoun
the foot or fleshy cushion-like underside of the toes of an animal
Platenoun
(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score;
‘he ruled that the runner failed to touch home’;
Padverb
add details to
Platenoun
a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
Padverb
walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud;
‘Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone’;
Platenoun
dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
Padverb
line or stuff with soft material;
‘pad a bra’;
Platenoun
the quantity contained in a plate
Padverb
add padding to;
‘pad the seat of the chair’;
Platenoun
a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
Platenoun
the thin under portion of the forequarter
Platenoun
a main course served on a plate;
‘a vegetable plate’; ‘the blue plate special’;
Platenoun
any flat platelike body structure or part
Platenoun
the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
Platenoun
a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
Platenoun
structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
Platenoun
a shallow receptacle for collection in church
Platenoun
a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
Platenoun
a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
Platenoun
the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws;
‘a catcher needs a lot of protective equipment’; ‘he plays behind the plate’;
Plateverb
coat with a layer of metal;
‘plate spoons with silver’;
