plate vs trading card

plate

noun
  • An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper. 

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

  • A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank. 

  • One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal. 

  • A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs. 

  • Plate armor. 

  • 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 very light steel horseshoe for racehorses. 

  • Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic. 

  • A vehicle license plate. 

  • The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline. 

  • A record, usually vinyl. 

  • A course at a meal. 

  • A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine. 

  • A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate. 

  • Home plate. 

  • The contents of such a dish. 

  • Precious metal, especially silver. 

  • A foot, from "plates of meat". 

  • A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc. 

  • A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating 

  • A tectonic plate. 

  • An image or copy. 

  • Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles. 

  • A flat object of uniform thickness. 

  • A prize given to the winner in a contest. 

  • The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material. 

  • trauma plate. 

  • An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities 

  • A material covered with such a layer. 

  • The anode of a vacuum tube. 

  • A roundel of silver or argent. 

  • Such dishes collectively. 

  • A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture. 

  • Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted. 

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

  • To arm or defend with metal plates. 

  • To beat into thin plates. 

  • To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of. 

  • to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet. 

  • (particularly with early British stamps) to identify the printing plate used. 

  • To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal. 

  • To score a run. 

trading card

noun
  • A collectible card, sometimes sticker, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or thing (fictional or real) and a short description of the picture, along with other text (attacks, statistics, or trivia). There is a wide variation of different types of cards, like sports, cars, natural history, film characters or other information of interest to purchasers. Sometimes is included with tobacco, food or confectionery products. 

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