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Definition of 'plate'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) plate
a shallow, usu. circular dish from which food is eaten.

2.  plate
the contents of such a dish; plateful.

3.  plate
an entire course of a meal served on such a dish:
a vegetable plate.

4.  plate
the food and service for one person, as at a catered meal:
a dinner at $100 a plate.

5.  plate
dishes, utensils, etc., of metal plated with gold or silver.

6.  plate
dishes, utensils, etc., made of gold or silver.

7.  plate
a dish for collecting offerings, as in a church.

8.  plate
a thin, flat sheet or piece of metal or other material, esp. of uniform thickness.

9.  plate
metal in such sheets.

10.  plate
a flat, polished piece of metal on which something may be or is engraved.

11.  plate
a flat or curved sheet, usu. of metal, plastic, or glass, on which a picture or text has been engraved, etched, molded, photographically developed, or drawn, to be inked, as in a press, for printing impressions on other surfaces.

12.  plate
a printed impression from such a piece or from some similar piece, as a woodcut.

13.  plate
a full-page illustration in a book, esp. on paper different from the text pages.

14.  plate
any of the flat metal pieces used in armor.

15.  plate
the part of a denture that conforms to the mouth and contains the teeth.

16.  plate
the entire denture.

17.  plate
Baseball.

18.  plate
the plate,

19.  plate
a sheet, usu. of glass or metal, coated with a sensitized emulsion, used for taking a photograph.

20.  plate
a platelike body part, structure, or organ.

21.  plate
a cut of beef from the lower end of the ribs.

22.  plate
any of a number of rigid sections of the earth's crust, movement of which gives rise to continental drift.

23.  plate
one of the interior elements of a vacuum tube, toward which electrons are attracted by virtue of its positive charge; anode.

24.  plate
a horizontal timber or board laid flat to support joists, rafters, or studs at or near their ends.

25.  plate
a gold or silver cup or the like awarded as the prize in a horse race or other contest.

26.  plate
a horse race or other contest for such a prize.

27. (v.t.) plate
to coat (metal) with a thin film of gold, silver, nickel, etc., by mechanical or chemical means.

28.  plate
to cover or overlay with metal plates for protection.

29.  plate
to make a stereotype or electrotype plate from (type).

30.  plate
to give a high gloss to (paper), as on supercalendered paper.

31. (n.) Plate
River,

Definition of 'plate'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) home plate, home base, home, plate
(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
"he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"

2. (noun) plate
a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic

3. (noun) plate
a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)

4. (noun) plate
dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten

5. (noun) plate, plateful
the quantity contained in a plate

6. (noun) plate, crustal plate
a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly

7. (noun) plate
the thin under portion of the forequarter

8. (noun) plate
a main course served on a plate
"a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special"

9. (noun) plate
any flat platelike body structure or part

10. (noun) plate
the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube

11. (noun) plate, photographic plate
a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded

12. (noun) plate
structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage

13. (noun) plate, collection plate
a shallow receptacle for collection in church

14. (noun) plate, scale, shell
a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

15. (verb) denture, dental plate, plate
a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth

16. (verb) plate
coat with a layer of metal
"plate spoons with silver"

Definition of 'plate'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) plate
a flat dish you eat food from
food piled high on my plate

2. plate
the amount of food a plate will hold
a plate of pancakes

3. plate
a flat piece of metal added for strength
a door reinforced with steel plates

Definition of 'plate'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) plate
a flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate

2. (noun) plate
metallic armor composed of broad pieces

3. (noun) plate
domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver

4. (noun) plate
metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold

5. (noun) plate
a small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table

6. (noun) plate
a piece of money, usually silver money

7. (noun) plate
a piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate

8. (noun) plate
a page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates

9. (noun) plate
that part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc

10. (noun) plate
a horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters

11. (noun) plate
a roundel of silver or tinctured argent

12. (noun) plate
a sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light

13. (noun) plate
a prize giving to the winner in a contest

14. (verb) plate
to cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping

15. (verb) plate
to cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense

16. (verb) plate
to adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness

17. (verb) plate
to beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae

18. (verb) plate
to calender; as, to plate paper

Definition of 'plate'

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

1. plate
1. In cartography: a. a printing plate of zinc, aluminum, or engraved copper; b. collective term for all

Translation of 'plate'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a shallow dish for holding food etc china plates.
Afrikaans: bord	Arabic: صَحْن مُسَطَّح من خَزَف ا	Bulgarian: блюдо
Brazilian: prato	Czech: talíř	German: die Platte
Danish: tallerken; -tallerken	Greek: πιάτο	Spanish: plato
Estonian: taldrik	Farsi: بشقاب	Finnish: lautanen
French: assiette	Hebrew: צַלָחָת	Hindi: प्लेट
Croatian: tanjur	Hungarian: tányér	Indonesian: piring
Icelandic: diskur	Italian: piatto	Japanese: 皿
Korean: 접시	Lithuanian: lėkštė	Latvian: šķīvis
Malay: pinggan	Dutch: bord	Norwegian: tallerken; fat
Polish: talerz	Persian: بشقاب	Pashto: نالبكى
Portuguese: prato	Romanian: farfurie	Russian: тарелка
Slovak: tanier, misa, podnos	Slovenian: krožnik	Serbian: tanjir
Swedish: fat, tallrik	Thai: จาน	Turkish: tabak
Taiwanese: 盤子	Ukrainian: тарілка	Urdu: پليٹ، برتن
Vietnamese: cái đĩa	Chinese: 盘子
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