plate
IPA: pɫˈeɪt
noun
- A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
- (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
- The contents of such a dish.
- A course at a meal.
- (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
- A flat object of uniform thickness.
- (especially Australia; metonymically, plural only) Vehicle license plates, registration plates.
- A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
- (historical) Plate armor.
- A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
- A material covered with such a layer.
- (dated) An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.
- (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
- (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
- (printing, photography) An image or copy.
- (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
- (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
- (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
- (baseball) Home plate.
- (geology) A tectonic plate.
- (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
- (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
- (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
- A prize given to the winner in a contest.
- (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
- (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
- (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
- (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
- One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
- A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
- (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
- (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
- (music) A record, usually vinyl.
- (military) trauma plate.
- Precious metal, especially silver.
- (obsolete) Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes.
- (heraldry) A roundel of silver or argent.
- The River Plate.
verb
- To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
- (cooking, photography) To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
- (baseball) To score a run.
- (transitive) To arm or defend with metal plates.
- (transitive) To beat into thin plates.
- (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
- (philately) to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
- (philately, particularly with early British stamps) To identify the printing plate used.
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Examples of "plate" in Sentences
- I tipped over the name plate on his desk: Dr. Richard Salmon.
- I said goodbye quickly to the metro editor, logged off my computer, placed my name plate in my bag and left.
- Noticing the suit and tie, he spoke to me first, looking down his nose, as he did so, to the name plate on my breast pocket.
- On display are sculptures in chocolate: a life size one of Ms. Brown's figure, of her diploma a masters in milk chocolate, a pair of her high heels and a name plate from her desk that identifies Ms. Brown as the "Chief Chocolate Officer" of M&M's.
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