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plate
  1. A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
  2. (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
  3. The contents of such a dish.
  4. A course at a meal.
  5. (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
  6. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
  7. A vehicle license plate.
  8. A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
  9. A material covered with such a layer.
  10. (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver.
  11. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
  12. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
  13. (printing, photography) An image or copy.
  14. (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.
  15. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
  16. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
  17. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
  18. (baseball) Home plate.
  19. (geology) A tectonic plate.
  20. (historical) Plate armour.
  21. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
  22. (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
  23. (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
  24. (obsolete) A coin, usually a silver coin.
  25. (heraldic charge) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
  26. A prize given to the winner in a contest.
  27. (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
  28. (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
  29. (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
  30. (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
  31. One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
  32. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
  33. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
  34. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
  35. (music) A record, usually vinyl.
  36. Synonyms:
  37. Examples:
    1. “When dinner had ended, I scraped the food from my plate back into the dish, and I handed Nathaniel my dish.”
      “I later heard that he needed an operation and had a metal plate inserted.”
      “Thus, the first large speculum made in a single piece was a round plate of metal three feet in diameter.”
plater
  1. Someone who plates metal.
  2. Someone who installs sheet metal and armour plating, particularly on trains, ships, tanks, and similar items.
  3. A machine for calendering paper.
  4. (biology) A device for depositing cells on a plate.
  5. (horse-racing) A horse that runs chiefly in selling plates; hence, an inferior racehorse.
  6. Examples:
    1. “Cook and Welton were both born in London, and served apprenticeships as boilermaker and plater respectively in London shipyards.”
      “Both sides were plated using my metal circle, with the help of my beloved assistant plater.”
      “This plater began to shovel overboard, working with furious energy, as though combating a hated enemy.”
plating
  1. (philately) An act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet.
  2. A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
  3. A coating or defensive armour of metal plates.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The plating on the spaceship protected it from the harsh conditions of outer space.”
      “The knight's plating reflected the sunlight as he rode into battle, his armor shining brilliantly.”
plateman
  1. (dated) A person in charge of the tableware (originally silver plate) in a restaurant.
  2. Someone who cleans plates.
  3. (baseball, rare) A baseman.
platescape
  1. The visual arrangement of food on a plate and the accompanying utensils, etc., regarded as a factor in the choices people make about their food intake.
platemark
  1. A mark or emblem stamped upon gold or silver plate, to indicate the place of manufacture, the degree of purity, etc.
platemaking
  1. The production of plates (printing surfaces).
  2. Examples:
    1. “As this plateless process also reduces platemaking supplies and equipment, Indigo is a more environmentally friendly method.”
plateware
  1. Plates used for serving food and dining.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Manbo of the middle Agsan, unlike his Mandya neighbor, is particularly poor in plateware.”
platemaker
  1. One who produces plates (printing surfaces).
plateful
  1. The quantity contained on a plate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “And with this, the devil put a plateful of gold coins into the prince's bag.”
      “Ever since Salome strutted her stuff for a plateful of chops, women have recognised their power.”
      “Here she slept at night, but during the day she amused herself on a table, where the woman had placed a plateful of water.”
plate
  1. Precious metal, especially silver.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “When dinner had ended, I scraped the food from my plate back into the dish, and I handed Nathaniel my dish.”
      “I later heard that he needed an operation and had a metal plate inserted.”
      “Thus, the first large speculum made in a single piece was a round plate of metal three feet in diameter.”
platemakers
  1. plural of platemaker
platescapes
  1. plural of platescape
platemarks
  1. plural of platemark
platemen
  1. plural of plateman
platesful
platefuls
  1. plural of plateful
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But nobody thinks of the glorious platefuls of fresh vegetables and steaming dishes of frumenty.”
      “Food is just about my only remaining pleasure up here, and so I dive greedily into vast platefuls of the stuff.”
      “Tourists and locals alike queue for a table, then jostle for elbow room while devouring platefuls of galuska and prokolt.”
platings
platers
  1. plural of plater
  2. Examples:
    1. “Half of the platers in Canada don't use PFOS, so it's hard for us to see why the others cannot switch over.”
      “Practical for direct tightening on the tables, these jaws platers adapt to all the types of prismatic parts.”
      “We thus don't have to fully damp the item in a bath, like ordinary platers do.”
plates
  1. plural of plate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They sat down at a long table with plates of waffles, syrup, butter, whipped cream, and strawberries piled on top of it.”
      “In this version the bottom of both the high and low joists bear directly on the wall plates.”
      “A short wade out to sea, the bottom plates, remnants of the ship's engines and boiler lie collapsed upon themselves.”
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