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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dish or meal served |
| Synonyms: | bowl, casserole, course, helping, platter, portion, service, serving, trencher |
| Notes: | dish is a more general term and plate is more specialized |
| Main Entry: | armor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protective covering, often made of metal |
| Synonyms: | bulletproof vest, defense, guard, mail, plate, protection, security, sheath, shield |
| Main Entry: | banality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common saying |
| Synonyms: | adage, boiler, buzzword, chestnut, cliché, corn, dullsville, familiar tune, high camp, hokum, old chestnut, old saw, plate, platitude, prosaicism, prosaism, saw, trite phrase, trivia, triviality, truism |
| Antonyms: | coinage, nuance, original saying |
| Main Entry: | dish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eating receptacle |
| Synonyms: | bowl, casserole, ceramic, china, container, cup, mug, pitcher, plate, platter, porringer, pot, pottery, salver, saucer, tray, vessel |
| Notes: | dish is a more general term and plate is more specialized |
| Main Entry: | disk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | round object |
| Synonyms: | circle, disc, discoid, discoidal, discus, dish, flan, plate, platter, quoit, sabot, saucer, shell |
| Notes: | some make a distinction between disks - magnetic media like floppy disks and hard disks - and discs, optical media like CD-ROMs and DVDs |
| Main Entry: | flake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scale, peel |
| Synonyms: | cell, disk, drop, foil, lamella, lamina, layer, leaf, membrane, pellicle, plate, scab, section, shaving, sheet, skin, slice, sliver, wafer |
| Main Entry: | illustration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drawing, artwork that assists explanation |
| Synonyms: | adornment, cartoon, decoration, depiction, design, engraving, etching, figure, frontispiece, halftone, image, line drawing, painting, photo, photograph, picture, plate, sketch, snapshot, tailpiece, vignette |
| Main Entry: | metal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lustrous chemical element |
| Synonyms: | alloy, casting, deposit, foil, hardware, ingot, leaf, load, mail, mineral, native rock, ore, plate, solder, vein |
| Main Entry: | scale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thin covering, skin |
| Synonyms: | film, flake, incrustation, lamina, layer, plate, scurf |
| Notes: | octave is the distance covered by any eight notes of a scale; a scale is a series of eight notes played in alphabetical order |
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