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noun, verb, plat⋅ed, plat⋅ing.| 1. | a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten. |
| 2. | the contents of such a dish; plateful. |
| 3. | an entire course of a meal served on such a dish: I had the vegetable plate for lunch. |
| 4. | the food and service for one person, as at a banquet, fund-raising dinner, or the like: The wedding breakfast cost $20 a plate. |
| 5. | household dishes, utensils, etc., of metal plated with gold or silver. |
| 6. | household dishes, utensils, etc., made of gold or silver. |
| 7. | a dish, as of metal or wood, used for collecting offerings, as in a church. |
| 8. | a thin, flat sheet or piece of metal or other material, esp. of uniform thickness. |
| 9. | metal in such sheets. |
| 10. | a flat, polished piece of metal on which something may be or is engraved. |
| 11. | license plate. |
| 12. | a flat or curved sheet of metal, plastic, glass, or similar hard material, on which a picture or text has been engraved, etched, molded, photographically developed, or drawn, that is inked, as in a press, for printing impressions on other surfaces. |
| 13. | a printed impression from such a piece or from some similar piece, as a woodcut. |
| 14. | a full-page illustration in a book, esp. an insert on paper different from the text pages. |
| 15. | a piece of armor made from a thin, flat piece or several such pieces of tough material, esp. wrought iron or steel. |
| 16. | armor composed of thin, flat pieces; plate armor. |
| 17. | Dentistry.
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| 18. | Baseball.
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| 19. | plate glass. |
| 20. | Photography. a sheet of glass, metal, etc., coated with a sensitized emulsion, used for taking a photograph. |
| 21. | Anatomy, Zoology. a platelike part, structure, or organ. |
| 22. | a thin piece or cut of beef from the lower end of the ribs. |
| 23. | Geology. crustal plate. |
| 24. | Electronics. one of the interior elements of a vacuum tube, toward which electrons are attracted by virtue of its positive charge; anode. Abbreviation: P |
| 25. | Carpentry. any of various horizontal timbers or boards laid flat across the heads of studding, upon floors, etc., to support joists, rafters, or studs at or near their ends. |
| 26. | a gold or silver cup or the like awarded as the prize in a horse race or some other contest. |
| 27. | a horse race or some other contest for such a prize. |
| 28. | Heraldry. a rounded argent. |
| 29. | to coat (metal) with a thin film of gold, silver, nickel, etc., by mechanical or chemical means. |
| 30. | to cover or overlay with metal plates for protection. |
| 31. | Metalworking.
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| 32. | Printing. to make a stereotype or electrotype plate from (type). |
| 33. | Papermaking. to give a high gloss to (paper), as on supercalendered paper. |
| 34. | have on one's plate, Informal. to have as an immediate task, obligation, or prospect: I had too much on my plate already to take on another task. |
plate (plāt)
n.
A smooth, flat, relatively thin, rigid body of uniform thickness.
A thin flat layer, part, or structure.
A thin metallic or plastic support fitted to the gums to anchor artificial teeth.
A metal bar applied to a fractured bone in order to maintain the ends in apposition.
The agar layer within a Petri dish or similar vessel.
A sheet of glass or metal that is light-sensitive and on which a photographic image can be recorded.
| plate (plāt) Pronunciation Key
Noun
Verb To coat or cover with a thin layer of metal. |