# plate
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: plāt, IPA: /pleɪt/, [pʰl̥eɪt]
* Audio (US):(file)
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* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Homophone: plait
* Rhymes: -eɪt

### Etymology 1

From Middle English plate, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato.
(foot): Cockney rhyming slang, from "plates of meat" for "feet".

#### Noun

plate (plural plates)
* A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
    I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
* (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
* The contents of such a dish.
    I ate a plate of beans.
* A course at a meal.
    The meat plate was particularly tasty.
* (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
    With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.
* A flat object of uniform thickness.
    The most important and most expensive part of any solar cell is a silicon plate.
* (especially Australia; metonymically, plural only) Vehicle license plates, registration plates.
    Synonym: rego plates (Australia)
    He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
* A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
* (historical) Plate armor.
    He was confronted by two knights in full plate.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 248:He hewd, and lasht, and foynd, and thondred blowes, And euery way did seeke into his life, Ne plate, ne male could ward so mighty throwes, But yeilded passage to his cruell knife.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 366-368:Two potent Thrones, that to be less then Gods Disdain’d, but meaner thoughts learnd in thir flight, Mangl’d with gastly wounds through Plate and Maile.
* A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
    The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull.
* A material covered with such a layer.
    If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.
* (dated) An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.
    The tea was served in the plate.
** 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.i:The silver ore of pure Charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good Qualities—whereas the sentimental French Plate I use instead of it makes just as good a shew—and pays no tax.
* (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.
    We finished making the plates this morning.
* (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 person's foot.
    Sit down and give your plates a rest.
* (baseball) Home plate.
    There was a close play at the plate.
* (geology) A tectonic plate.
** 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:Our planet's crust is split into eight major plates and many minor plates.
* (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.
    Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.
* 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.
    The SAPI plate in his vest protected him from the bullet's impact.
* (slang, seduction community) Any of the potential romantic or sexual partners with whom a person keeps in touch as part of plate spinning.
    More plates means more dates!
* (Lego building) A Lego piece that is thin, 1/3 the height of a brick, and has studs on top.

##### Derived terms

* armplate
* assay plate
* autoplate
* backplate
* base plate
* baseplate
* bedplate
* beef plate
* Bitter plate
* black plate
* blue-plate special
* blue plate special
* bodyplate
* boilerplate
* boiler plate
* boiling plate
* bookplate
* bread-and-butter plate
* breastplate
* brest-plate
* bridging plate
* buckler plate
* butter plate
* buttplate
* cake plate
* catch plate
* CD plate
* cell plate
* chainplate
* Champy plate
* channel plate
* cheek plate
* chestplate
* china plate
* Chladni plate
* chromium-plate
* chromium plate
* clean one's plate
* clean up one's plate
* clutchplate
* clutch plate
* collection plate
* collection-plate
* cooking plate
* copperplate
* cornplate
* cortical plate
* counterplate
* cribriform plate
* dam plate
* dead plate
* dessert-plate
* diamond plate
* die plate
* dinner plate
* dinnerplate
* doorplate
* drawplate
* dry plate
* dub-plate
* dubplate
* dub plate
* earth plate
* echo plate
* endplate
* epiphyseal plate
* Europlate
* eye plate
* face plate
* face-plate
* fall plate
* fashion plate
* filterplate
* fingerplate
* fishplate
* flexplate
* floorplate
* footplate
* forceplate
* Fresnel zone plate
* futtock plate
* garbage plate
* give someone his head on a plate
* gold-plate
* gold plate
* growth plate
* hair plate
* half-plate
* hand someone his head on a plate
* heelplate
* heteroplate
* hotplate
* hot-plate
* hot plate
* hourplate
* immunoplate
* implate
* interplate
* intraplate
* Ishihara plate
* jack of plate
* jaw plate
* keyplate
* kick plate
* kickplate
* lateral pterygoid plate
* legplate
* licence plate
* license plate
* lip plate
* lockplate
* L-plate
* lysoplate
* medial pterygoid plate
* microplate
* microtiter plate
* midplate
* miniplate
* misplate
* mixed plate
* nail plate
* nameplate, name plate
* nanoplate
* neck plate
* neckplate
* neural plate
* nickel-plate
* Nickel Plate Road
* nonplate
* notoplate
* number plate
* offering plate
* office floor plate
* on a plate
* on one's plate
* overplate
* paper plate
* perch plate
* perforation plate
* photographic plate
* piano plate
* picky plate
* picotiter plate
* pie plate
* pitcher's plate
* plateable
* plate appearance
* plate armor
* plate armour
* plate block
* plate bone
* platebound
* plate carrée
* plate-carrier
* plate count
* plateful
* plate girder
* plate glass
* plate-glass
* plate glass university
* plate-glass university
* plateholder
* platelayer
* platelaying
* platelegs
* plateless
* platelet
* platelike
* plate lunch
* platemail
* plate mail
* platemaker
* platemaking
* plateman
* plate mark
* platemark
* plate meal
* plate money
* plate number coil
* plate out
* plate-out
* plate paper
* plate powder
* plate press
* plate reader
* plate reverb
* plateroon
* plate sale
* platescape
* plate ship
* plate tectonics
* plate up
* plateware
* plateway
* plate wheel
* platewise
* pole plate
* P-plate
* preplate
* process plate
* pronto plate
* pterygoid plate
* quadrant plate
* quarter-plate
* quarter-wave plate
* raising plate
* reed plate
* register plate
* replate
* reverb plate
* ridgeplate
* roof-plate
* roving plate
* saddle plate
* salad plate
* sauceplate
* Schmidt corrector plate
* scratchplate
* screwplate
* selling plate
* shinplate
* short plate
* side plate
* sieve plate
* silver-plate
* silver plate
* skidplate
* small plate
* smokeplate
* soleplate
* star plate
* step up to the plate
* stereoplate
* stir plate
* streak plate
* strike plate
* striking plate
* string plate
* stripper plate
* subplate
* swashplate
* swash plate
* switchplate
* theoretical plate
* throatplate
* tie plate
* tieplate
* tin plate
* tin-plate
* tinplate
* toeplate
* toothplate
* tramplate
* treadplate
* trench plate
* troll plate
* trunnion plate
* tubeplate
* turnplate
* underplate
* vanity license plate
* vanity plate
* veiled plate
* visiplate
* wall plate
* water plate
* wave plate
* waveplate
* weight plate
* weirplate
* wet plate
* whole plate
* wrist plate
* zone plate
* λ/4 plate

##### Descendants

* → Maori: pereti
* → Hindi: प्लेट (pleṭ)

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From Middle English platen, from Old English platian and Old French plater, both ultimately from Latin plata (see above).

#### Verb

plate (third-person singular simple present plates, present participle plating, simple past and past participle plated)
* To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
    This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.
* (cooking, photography) To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
    After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.
** 2011, “HYFR”, in Take Care, performed by Drake ft. Lil Wayne:I took her for sushi, she wanted to fuck / So we took it to go, told 'em don't even plate it
* (baseball) To score a run.
    The single plated the runner from second base.
* (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.
    Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.
* (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.

##### Derived terms

* chrome-plated
* chromium-plated
* electroplate
* nickel-plated
* plate away
* plate out
* plating

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

From Middle English, partly from Anglo-Norman plate (“plate, bullion”) and partly from Latin plata (“silver”), from Vulgar Latin *platta (“metal plate”), from feminine of Latin *plattus (“flat”).

#### Noun

plate (usually uncountable, plural plates)
* Precious metal, especially silver.
** 1864, Andrew Forrester, The Female Detective:At every meal—and I have heard the meals at Petleighcote were neither abundant nor succulent—enough plate stood upon the table to pay for the feeding of the poor of the whole county for a month
** 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:At the northern extremity of this chill province the gold plate of the Groans, pranked across the shining black of the long table, smoulders as though it contains fire […]

### Etymology 4

From Spanish plata (“silver”).

#### Noun

plate (plural plates)
* (obsolete) Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes.
** c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:[…] realms and islands were As plates dropp’d from his pocket.
* (heraldry) A roundel of silver or argent.

##### Translations
#### See also

| | metals | metals | main colours | main colours | main colours | main colours | less common colours | less common colours | less common colours | less common colours |
| tincture | or | argent | gules | azure | sable | vert | purpure | tenné | orange | sanguine |
| depiction | | | | | | | | | | |
| roundel (in parentheses: semé): | bezant (bezanty) | plate (platy) | torteau (tortelly) | hurt (hurty) | pellet (pellety), ogress | pomme | golpe (golpy) | orange (semé of oranges) | orange (semé of oranges) | guze (semé of guzes) |
| goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof: | (goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold) | d'eau (of water) | de sang (of blood) | de larmes (of tears) | de poix (of pitch) | d'huile / d'olive (olive oil) | | | | |
| | special roundel | furs | furs | furs | furs | furs | furs | furs | furs | additional, uncommon tinctures: |
| tincture | fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azure | ermine | ermines, counter-ermine | erminois | pean | vair | counter-vair | potent | counter-potent | bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey |
| depiction | | | | | | | | | | bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey |

### Anagrams

* -petal, Patel, leapt, lepta, palet, pelta, petal, pleat, tepal

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plat/

### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

plate
* feminine singular of plat

#### Noun

plate f (plural plates)
* very small flat boat

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

plate (plural plates) (Canada, informal)
* boring
** 1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, →ISBN, page 204:On va se mettre à ressembler aux gens qui racontent leur crisse de vie plate dans les émissions de télé débiles.We're going to sound like those people who tell their frickin' boring lives on those idiotic tv shows.
* Annoying or disappointing
    C’est plate de ne pas pouvoir y aller.It's too bad that we can't go.

#### Further reading

* “plate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

plate f (plural plates)
* (heraldry) plate, roundel argent

#### See also

| | disque de métal (besant) | disque de métal (besant) | disque d'émail (tourteau) | disque d'émail (tourteau) | disque d'émail (tourteau) | disque d'émail (tourteau) | disque d'émail (tourteau) | disque d'émail (tourteau) | autre |
| couleur | or | argent | gueules | azur | sable | sinople | pourpre | orangé | d'argent entouré d'un anneau de sable |
| nom | besant | plate | guse, buse | heurte | ogoesse | pomme, somme, volet | gulpe | orange | œil de faucon |

### Anagrams

* palet, pelât, petal, leapt, pleat

## Latvian
### Noun

plate f (5th declension)
* plate
* table-leaf
* (music) record
* (music) disc
* (computing) board
* (computing) card
* (computing) printed circuit board
* (computing) circuit board

#### Synonyms

* dēlis
* plāksne
* plātne
* (computing) drukātās shēmas plate
* (computing) shēmas plate

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse plata, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plaː.te/, [ˈplaː.tə]

### Noun

plate f or m (definite singular plata or platen, indefinite plural plater, definite plural platene)
* plate (thin, flat object)
* record (vinyl disc)

#### Synonyms

* (flat object): skive

#### Derived terms

* kokeplate
* plateselskap

### References

“plate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse plata, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²plɑːtə/

### Noun

plate f (definite singular plata, indefinite plural plater, definite plural platene)
* plate (thin, flat object)
* record (vinyl disc)

#### Synonyms

* (flat object): skive

#### Derived terms

* kokeplate
* plateselskap

### References

“plate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* platte

### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus.

### Noun

plate oblique singular, f (oblique plural plates, nominative singular plate, nominative plural plates)
* a flat metal disk
** c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:De mars d'or et d'arjant an platesGold coins and disks of silver
* a flat plate of armor

#### Descendants

* → Middle English:
** English: plate
*** → Maori: pereti
*** → Hindi: प्लेट (pleṭ)
** Scots: plate
* → Irish: pláta

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (plate)

## Scots
### Etymology

Middle English, from Old French plate.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plet/, or sometimes IPA: /plɪt/ in the Borders

### Noun

plate (plural plates)
* bowl
    Can A hev a plate o soup? ― Can I have a bowl of soup?

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

plate (Cyrillic spelling плате)
* inflection of plata:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

### Verb

plate (Cyrillic spelling плате)
* third-person plural present of platiti