plate vs engraving

engraving vs plate

plate and engraving both are nouns.

plate is a verb but engraving is not a verb.

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

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

plate: a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
engraving: a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved

Other hyponyms of plate include baffle, baffle board, cylinder head, damper, disc, disk, 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)	engraving (noun)
dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten	making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them
a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)	a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved
a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic	a print made from an engraving
a shallow receptacle for collection in church
(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)	engraving (verb)
coat with a layer of metal

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