plate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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".
Inflected forms:
form: plates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
gloss: Such dishes collectively.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A valuable collection of silver plate was donated to the museum.
gloss: The contents of such a dish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I ate a plate of beans.
gloss: A course at a meal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The meat plate was particularly tasty.
gloss: An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.
gloss: A flat object of uniform thickness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The most important and most expensive part of any solar cell is a silicon plate.
gloss: Vehicle license plates, registration plates.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
especially
metonymically
plural
plural-only
uncountable
examples: He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
gloss: A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Plate armor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: He was confronted by two knights in full plate.
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.
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.
gloss: A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull.
gloss: A material covered with such a layer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.
gloss: An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: The tea was served in the plate.
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.
gloss: A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We finished making the plates this morning.
"Do you really mean me to go on with plates for all the high values up to the thousand pound printing?"
gloss: An image or copy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A person's foot.
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Sit down and give your plates a rest.
gloss: Home plate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was a close play at the plate.
gloss: A tectonic plate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Our planet's crust is split into eight major plates and many minor plates.
gloss: Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The anode of a vacuum tube.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.
gloss: A prize given to the winner in a contest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
uncountable
gloss: One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A record, usually vinyl.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: trauma plate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The SAPI plate in his vest protected him from the bullet's impact.
gloss: Any of the potential romantic or sexual partners with whom a person keeps in touch as part of plate spinning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: More plates means more dates!
gloss: A Lego piece that is thin, 1/3 the height of a brick, and has studs on top.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
pos: verb
examples: This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.
gloss: To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
pos: verb
examples: After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.
I took her for sushi, she wanted to fuck / So we took it to go, told 'em don't even plate it
gloss: To score a run.
pos: verb
examples: The single plated the runner from second base.
gloss: To arm or defend with metal plates.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To beat into thin plates.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
pos: verb
examples: Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.
gloss: to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
pos: verb
gloss: To identify the printing plate used.
pos: verb
Derived words: 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
continental plate
cooking plate
copperplate
cornplate
cortical plate
counterplate
cribriform plate
dam plate
dead plate
deckplate
dessert-plate
diamond plate
die plate
dinner plate
dinnerplate
dockplate
doorplate
dorsal plate
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
golden plates
gold plate
gold-plate
growth plate
hair plate
half-plate
hand someone his head on a plate
hand someone their head on a plate
heart attack on a plate
heelplate
heteroplate
hotplate
hot plate
hot-plate
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
platemark
plate mark
plate meal
plate money
plate number coil
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
tectonic plate
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
plate out
chrome-plated
chromium-plated
electroplate
nickel-plated
plate away
plating
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: пласти́на
roman: plastína
lang: Catalan
word: làmina
lang: Czech
word: štítek
lang: Dutch
word: plaat
lang: Esperanto
word: plato
lang: Finnish
word: levy
lang: Finnish
word: laatta
lang: French
word: plaque
lang: Galician
word: placa
lang: German
word: Platte
lang: German
word: Scheibe
lang: German
word: Blech
lang: German
word: Tafel
lang: Greek
word: έλασμα
roman: élasma
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἔλασμα
roman: élasma
lang: Hebrew
word: לוּחַ
roman: lúaẖ
lang: Hungarian
word: fémlap
lang: Hungarian
word: fémlemez
lang: Hungarian
word: lap
lang: Hungarian
word: lemez
lang: Hungarian
word: tárcsa
lang: Italian
word: placca
lang: Italian
word: lamella
lang: Latvian
word: plāksne
lang: Macedonian
word: плоча
roman: ploča
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: plate
lang: Polish
word: płyta
lang: Portuguese
word: placa
lang: Romanian
word: placă
lang: Russian
word: пласти́на
roman: plastína
lang: Russian
word: пласти́нка
roman: plastínka
lang: Russian
word: табли́чка
roman: tablíčka
lang: Russian
word: ши́льдик
roman: šílʹdik
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: lann
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: clàr
lang: Sicilian
word: placa
lang: Sicilian
word: lanna
lang: Sicilian
word: lamera
lang: Spanish
word: placa
lang: Spanish
word: lámina
lang: Swedish
word: platta
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: لوحه
roman: levha
lang: Ukrainian
word: пласти́на
roman: plastýna
lang: Ukrainian
word: метале́вий лист
roman: metalévyj lyst
lang: Ukrainian
word: табли́чка
roman: tablýčka