plate vs disk

plate and disk both are nouns.

plate and disk both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plate	Yes	No	Yes	No
disk	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, disk is a hyponym of plate; that is, disk is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than plate:

plate: a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
disk: a flat circular plate

Other hyponyms of plate include baffle, baffle board, cylinder head, damper, disc, engraving, escutcheon, fin keel, fishplate, grid, storage-battery grid, gusset, gusset plate, lamella, license plate, numberplate, L-plate, nameplate, plate iron, platen, plessimeter, pleximeter, tap.

plate (noun)	disk (noun)
dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten	a flat circular plate
a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)	sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic	(computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
a shallow receptacle for collection in church	something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
any flat platelike body structure or part
a main course served on a plate
the thin under portion of the forequarter
a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
the quantity contained in a plate

plate (verb)	disk (verb)
coat with a layer of metal	draw a harrow over (land)

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