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plate vs platen

platen vs plate

plate and platen both are nouns.

plate is a verb but platen is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
plate Yes No Yes No
platen Yes No No No
As nouns, platen is a hyponym of plate; that is, platen is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than plate:
  • plate: a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
  • platen: the flat plate of a printing press that presses the paper against the type
Other hyponyms of plate include baffle, baffle board, cylinder head, damper, disc, disk, engraving, escutcheon, fin keel, fishplate, grid, storage-battery grid, gusset, gusset plate, lamella, license plate, numberplate, L-plate, nameplate, plate iron, plessimeter, pleximeter, tap.
plate (noun) platen (noun)
dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten the roller on a typewriter against which the keys strike
a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) the flat plate of a printing press that presses the paper against the type
a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic work table of a machine tool
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) platen (verb)
coat with a layer of metal
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