plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: plāt
ipa: /pleɪt/
ipa: [pʰl̥eɪt]
homophone: plait
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: plates
Etymology: 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".
Senses: examples: text: I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
glosses: A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
examples: text: A valuable collection of silver plate was donated to the museum.
glosses: Such dishes collectively.
examples: text: I ate a plate of beans.
glosses: The contents of such a dish.
examples: text: The meat plate was particularly tasty.
glosses: A course at a meal.
examples: text: With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.
glosses: An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
examples: text: The most important and most expensive part of any solar cell is a silicon plate.
glosses: A flat object of uniform thickness.
examples: text: He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
synonyms: rego plates
glosses: Vehicle license plates, registration plates.
glosses: A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
examples: text: He was confronted by two knights in full plate.
text: 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.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 248:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: Plate armor.
examples: text: The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull.
glosses: A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
examples: text: If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.
glosses: A material covered with such a layer.
examples: text: The tea was served in the plate.
text: 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.
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.i:
glosses: An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
examples: text: We finished making the plates this morning.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
printing
publishing
glosses: An image or copy.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
examples: text: Sit down and give your plates a rest.
glosses: A person's foot.
examples: text: There was a close play at the plate.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Home plate.
examples: text: Our planet's crust is split into eight major plates and many minor plates.
ref: 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A tectonic plate.
topics: biology
herpetology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
examples: text: Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The anode of a vacuum tube.
glosses: A prize given to the winner in a contest.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel-industry
glosses: A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel-industry
glosses: The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
glosses: A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
glosses: One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
glosses: A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
qualifier: furriers' slang
glosses: Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
qualifier: hat-making
glosses: The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A record, usually vinyl.
examples: text: The SAPI plate in his vest protected him from the bullet's impact.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: trauma plate.
examples: text: More plates means more dates!
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: Any of the potential romantic or sexual partners with whom a person keeps in touch as part of plate spinning.
qualifier: Lego building
glosses: A Lego piece that is thin, 1/3 the height of a brick, and has studs on top.
Derived terms: armor plate
armour plate
armplate
assay plate
autoplate
backplate
base plate
baseplate
bedplate
beef plate
Bitter plate
black plate
blue plate
blue-plate
blue-plate special
blue plate special
bodyplate
boiler plate
boilerplate
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
Chladni's plate
chromium-plate
chromium plate
clean one's plate
clean up one's plate
clutch plate
clutchplate
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
dockplate
doorplate
drawplate
dry plate
dub-plate
dub plate
dubplate
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
golden plates
gold-plate
gold plate
growth plate
hair plate
half-plate
hand someone his head on a plate
heelplate
heteroplate
hot-plate
hot plate
hotplate
hourplate
immunoplate
implate
interplate
intraplate
Ishihara plate
jack of plate
jaw plate
keyplate
kickplate
kick plate
lateral pterygoid plate
legplate
licence plate
license plate
lip plate
lockplate
L-plate
luncheon plate
lysoplate
medial pterygoid plate
microplate
microtiter plate
midplate
miniplate
misplate
mixed plate
nail plate
nameplate
name plate
nanoplate
neckplate
neck plate
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
photoplate
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
plateroom
plateroon
plate sale
platescape
plate ship
plateskirt
plates of meat
plate tectonics
plate up
plateware
plateway
plate wheel
platewise
platework
pole plate
P-plate
preplate
process plate
pronto plate
pterygoid plate
quadrant plate
quarter-plate
quarter-wave plate
raising plate
reed plate
register plate
rego 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
slide plate
small plate
smokeplate
soleplate
spin plates
star plate
step up to the plate
stereoplate
stir plate
streak plate
strike plate
striking plate
string plate
stripper plate
subplate
swash plate
swashplate
switchplate
theoretical plate
throatplate
tieplate
tie plate
tinplate
tin plate
tin-plate
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
waveplate
wave plate
weight plate
weirplate
wet plate
whole plate
wrist plate
zone plate
λ/4 plate