Disk vs. Plate: Difference and Comparison
Edited by Muazma Batool — By Muneeza Rehman — Published on September 22, 2023
A "disk" typically refers to a flat, thin, circular object, often related to technology, while a "plate" is a flat dish from which food is eaten or served.
Difference Between Disk and Plate
A "disk" is a term often associated with flat, circular items. In a technological context, it refers to devices used to store information, such as hard drives or floppy disks. "Disk" can also denote any object or figure that's round and flat, not just tech-related items. In astronomy, for example, the visible surface of the sun or a planet might be referred to as a "solar disk."
Muazma Batool
Sep 22, 2023
On the other hand, a "plate" is most commonly recognized as a flat dish on which food is served or eaten. It's a staple in dining and comes in various sizes, shapes, and materials. While primarily associated with culinary settings, "plate" can also have other meanings, like tectonic plates in geology.
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Sep 22, 2023
Both "disk" and "plate" hint at something flat and usually round, but their contexts differ widely. "Disk" leans more towards technological or scientific applications, whereas "plate" is firmly rooted in daily life, especially dining. Still, it's essential to remember that English, being a versatile language, allows for these words to be used in various fields and meanings, depending on context.
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Sep 22, 2023
For instance, in anatomy, "disk" might refer to the fibrous areas between vertebrae, while "plate" might allude to a thin, flat piece of bone. Hence, while both words can sometimes intersect in meaning, their primary applications tend to diverge.
Nolan
Sep 22, 2023
Disk vs. Plate Comparison Chart
Disk vs. Plate Definitions
◉Disk
A flat, thin, circular object or device.
She saved her files on an external disk.
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Sep 15, 2023
◉Plate
A thin piece of metal or other material, flat and rectangular.
The nameplate on the door displayed her title.
Kaitlyn
Sep 15, 2023
◉Disk
The visible surface of a celestial body.
The solar disk appeared bright today.
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Sep 15, 2023
◉Plate
One of the Earth's upper layer sections.
The tectonic plates shifted, causing an earthquake.
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Sep 15, 2023
◉Plate
An illustration or photograph in a book.
The book had a colorful plate showing bird species.
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Sep 15, 2023
◉Disk
Something resembling such an object
The moon's disk was reflected in the pond.
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◉Disk
A round, flattened structure in a plant or animal, such as an intervertebral disk.
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◉Disk
(Botany) The central area bearing numerous disk flowers in the flower head of a composite plant such as a daisy.
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◉Plate
A sheet of metal, plastic, rubber, paperboard, or other material prepared for use as a printing surface, such as an electrotype or a stereotype.
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◉Plate
A print of a woodcut, lithograph, or other engraved material, especially when reproduced in a book.
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◉Plate
A full-page book illustration, often in color and printed on paper different from that used for text pages.
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◉Plate
(Photography) A light-sensitive sheet of glass or metal on which a photographic image can be recorded.
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◉Disk
A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
A coin is a disk of metal.
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◉Plate
(Dentistry) A thin metallic or plastic support fitted to the gums to anchor artificial teeth.
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◉Disk
(figuratively) Something resembling a disk.
Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
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◉Plate
(Architecture) In wood-frame construction, a horizontal member that bears a load, as of a roof or a wall.
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◉Disk
(dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
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May 03, 2023
◉Disk
(computer hardware) floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.
He still uses floppy disks from 1979.
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May 03, 2023
◉Disk
A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium.
She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.
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May 03, 2023
◉Plate
Service and food for one person at a meal
dinner at a set price per plate.
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◉Disk
(botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
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◉Plate
Household articles, such as hollowware, covered with a precious metal, such as silver or gold.
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◉Plate
A dish passed among the members of a group or congregation for the collection of offerings.
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◉Disk
To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximising the drag generated by the propeller.
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◉Plate
A thin cut of beef from underneath the ribs, including the diaphragm muscle.
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◉Disk
The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.
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◉Disk
A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.
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◉Plate
A platelike part, organ, or structure, such as that covering some reptiles.
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◉Disk
The anterior surface or oral area of cœlenterate animals, as of sea anemones.
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◉Plate
(Informal) A schedule of matters to be dealt with
had a lot on my plate at work after vacation.
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May 03, 2023
◉Disk
sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves
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◉Disk
(computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
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◉Disk
An anatomical structure resembling a plate or layer.
The herniated disk caused him a lot of pain.
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Sep 15, 2023
◉Plate
To give a glossy finish to (paper) by pressing between metal sheets or rollers.
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◉Disk
A device for recording or reproducing sound.
The old gramophone played the disk beautifully.
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◉Plate
To arrange (food) on a plate, as for serving
"a choice of starters, entrées, and desserts plated just as they will appear when ordered" (John Edward Young).
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◉Plate
(Baseball) To cause (a run) to be scored or (a runner) to cross home plate, as by a hit.
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◉Plate
A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
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May 03, 2023
◉Plate
(figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.
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May 03, 2023
◉Plate
A flat object of uniform thickness.
The most important and most expensive part of any solar cell is a silicon plate.
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◉Plate
A vehicle license plate.
He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
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◉Plate
(historical) Plate armor.
He was confronted by two knights in full plate.
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◉Plate
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.
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May 03, 2023
◉Plate
A material covered with such a layer.
If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.
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May 03, 2023
◉Plate
(dated) An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.
The tea was served in the plate.
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◉Plate
(weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
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◉Plate
(printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
We finished making the plates this morning.
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May 03, 2023
◉Plate
An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
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◉Plate
(dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
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◉Plate
(construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
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◉Plate
(Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
Sit down and give your plates a rest.
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◉Plate
A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
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◉Plate
The anode of a vacuum tube.
Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.
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◉Plate
(chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
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◉Plate
A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
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◉Plate
The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
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◉Plate
(Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
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◉Plate
(furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
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◉Plate
(hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
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◉Plate
(military) trauma plate.
The SAPI plate in his vest protected him from the bullet's impact.
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◉Plate
(obsolete) Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes.
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◉Plate
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.
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◉Plate
To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.
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◉Plate
(baseball) To score a run.
The single plated the runner from second base.
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◉Plate
To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.
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◉Plate
(philately) to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
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◉Plate
(philately) (particularly with early British stamps) to identify the printing plate used.
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◉Plate
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.
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◉Plate
Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.
Mangled . . . through plate and mail.
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◉Plate
Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.
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◉Plate
Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is silver or gold throughout.
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◉Plate
A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.
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◉Plate
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.
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◉Plate
A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.
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◉Plate
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.
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◉Plate
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.
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◉Plate
A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.
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◉Plate
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.
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◉Plate
Loosely, a sporting contest for a prize; specif., in horse racing, a race for a prize, the contestants not making a stake.
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◉Plate
Skins for fur linings of garments, sewed together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
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◉Plate
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.
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◉Plate
a quantity sufficient to fill a plate; a plateful; a dish containing that quantity; a plate of spaghetti.
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◉Plate
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.
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◉Plate
a flat dish of glass or plastic with a fitted cover, used for culturing microorganisms in a laboratory.
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◉Plate
the identification tag required to be displayed on the outside of a vehicle; same as license plate; - often used in the plural.
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◉Plate
an agenda or schedule of tasks to be performed; I have a lot on my plate today.
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◉Plate
To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.
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◉Plate
To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.
Thus plated in habiliments of war.
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◉Plate
(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
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◉Plate
a main course served on a plate;
a vegetable plate
the blue plate special
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◉Plate
a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
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◉Plate
structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
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◉Plate
a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
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◉Plate
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
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May 03, 2023
◉Plate
A flat dish from which food is eaten or served.
She set the table with her best china plates.
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◉Plate
A flat piece of metal used in orthopedics.
The surgeon inserted a plate to stabilize the bone.
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Disk vs. Plate Frequently Asked Questions
Can "disk" refer to something in the human body?
Yes, like the disks in our spine between vertebrae.
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Sep 22, 2023
In which context might "disk" and "plate" mean similar things?
In anatomy, where both can refer to flat, layered structures.
Nolan
Sep 22, 2023
What's a computer disk used for?
A computer disk is used to store and retrieve data.
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Sep 22, 2023
Is a plate always used for eating?
Primarily yes, but a plate can also refer to tectonic plates or metal pieces.
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Sep 22, 2023
Is a "floppy disk" still in use?
Rarely, as modern technology has largely replaced them.
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Sep 22, 2023
How is a "disk" related to music?
Older music recordings were stored on phonograph disks or records.
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Sep 22, 2023
Are plates always made of porcelain or ceramics?
No, plates can also be made of glass, metal, plastic, and more.
Levi
Sep 22, 2023
Can you find a "plate" in a library book?
Yes, if referring to a printed illustration or photograph.
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Sep 22, 2023
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