Mug and Plate

Mug

Mug noun - A round vessel equipped with a handle and designed for drinking.

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Plate and mug are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Plate" instead a noun "Mug".

Plate noun - A small thin piece of material that resembles an animal scale.

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Mug and plate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Mug" instead a noun "Plate".

Nearby Words: plat, plateful, plated, platter, plating

old	old mug	old plate
full	full mug	full plate
nice	nice mug	nice plate
regular	regular mug	regular plate
Other adjectives: certain, original, green, single, empty, entire, real, large, big, huge, famous, hot, broken, gigantic, giant, red, ceramic.

mug pair

plate pair

However, an animated vanity plate used in their PlayStation releases showed the Ocean logo underwater with a dolphin swimming across in front of it, turning in the middle to mug for the camera.

Source: Vanity Plate
The machine drops the pie, squashes it with a plate, pours coffee on it, and then crushes it with the coffee mug.

Source: Comic Book / Garfield: His 9 Lives
The innocent Virginia Otis, however, turns out to be the solution to his plight.It's currently in public domain, and can be read here.Tropes used: And I Must Scream: Sir Simon's corpse is found chained up in the basement, with a plate of (what used to be) food and a mug of water just out of reach.

Source: Literature / The Canterville Ghost

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