plate

[[t]pleɪt[/t]]

n. v. plat•ed, plat•ing

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

2) the contents of such a dish; plateful

3) an entire course of a meal served on such a dish:

a vegetable plate[/ex]

4) the food and service for one person, as at a catered meal:

a dinner at $100 a plate[/ex]

5) cvb

a) dishes, utensils, etc., of metal plated with gold or silver

b) dishes, utensils, etc., made of gold or silver

6) a dish for collecting offerings, as in a church

7) mel a thin, flat sheet or piece of metal or other material, esp. of uniform thickness

8) mel metal in such sheets

9) a flat, polished piece of metal on which something may be or is engraved

10) cvb

license plate

11) pri 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) a printed impression from such a piece or from some similar piece, as a woodcut

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

14) her any of the flat metal pieces used in armor

15) her

plate armor

16) den

a) the part of a denture that conforms to the mouth and contains the teeth

b) the entire denture

17) spo baseball

a) the plate

home plate

b) rubber I, 10)

18) pht a sheet, usu. of glass or metal, coated with a sensitized emulsion, used for taking a photograph

19) anat. zool. a platelike body part, structure, or organ

20) coo a cut of beef from the lower end of the ribs

21) gel any of a number of rigid sections of the earth's crust, movement of which gives rise to continental drift

22) elo elm one of the interior elements of a vacuum tube, toward which electrons are attracted by virtue of its positive charge; anode

23) bui a horizontal timber or board laid flat to support joists, rafters, or studs at or near their ends

24) spo a gold or silver cup or the like awarded as the prize in a horse race or other contest

25) spo a horse race or other contest for such a prize

26) mel to coat (metal) with a thin film of gold, silver, nickel, etc., by mechanical or chemical means

27) mel to cover or overlay with metal plates for protection

28) pri to make a stereotype or electrotype plate from (type)

29) pri to give a high gloss to (paper), as on supercalendered paper

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- have on one's plate

Etymology: 1250–1300; ME < OF: lit., something flat, n. use of fem. of plat flat I < VL *plattus, akin to Gk platýs broad, flat