Pronunciations (3)
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/ˈpleɪ̯t/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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[ˈpʰl̥eɪ̯t]
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈplæ̝ɪ̯t/
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
Noun
A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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Put the bread on a plate.
I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
Such dishes collectively.
Usage- Uncountable
- Examples
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A valuable collection of silver plate was donated to the museum.
The contents of such a dish.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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He ate a plate of pasta.
I ate a plate of beans.
A course at a meal.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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The meat plate was particularly tasty.
An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
Usage- Countable
- Figurative
- Uncountable
- Examples
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With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.
A flat object of uniform thickness.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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The most important and most expensive part of any solar cell is a silicon plate.
Vehicle license plates, registration plates.
Usage- Australia
- Countable
- especially
- metonymically
- plural
- Plural only
- Uncountable
- Synonyms
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He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
Plate armor.
Usage- Countable
- Historical
- Uncountable
- Examples
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He was confronted by two knights in full plate.
More examples (1)
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.
A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull.
A material covered with such a layer.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.
An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.
Usage- Countable
- Dated
- Uncountable
- Examples
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The tea was served in the plate.
More examples (1)
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.
A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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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?"
An image or copy.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
A person's foot.
Usage- Cockney
- Countable
- Slang
- Uncountable
- Examples
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Sit down and give your plates a rest.
Home plate.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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There was a close play at the plate.
A tectonic plate.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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Our planet's crust is split into eight major plates and many minor plates.
Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
The anode of a vacuum tube.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.
A prize given to the winner in a contest.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
Usage- Countable
- Dated
- Uncountable
The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
Usage- broadly
- Countable
- Uncountable
A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
Usage- Australia
- Countable
- Uncountable
One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
A record, usually vinyl.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
trauma plate.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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The SAPI plate in his vest protected him from the bullet's impact.
Any of the potential romantic or sexual partners with whom a person keeps in touch as part of plate spinning.
Usage- Countable
- Slang
- Uncountable
- Examples
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More plates means more dates!
A Lego piece that is thin, 1/3 the height of a brick, and has studs on top.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
Verb
To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
Usage- Transitive
- Examples
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This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.
To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
Usage- Transitive
- Examples
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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
To score a run.
Usage- Transitive
- Examples
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The single plated the runner from second base.
To arm or defend with metal plates.
Usage- Transitive
To beat into thin plates.
Usage- Transitive
To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
- Examples
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Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.
To categorize stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
Usage- Transitive
To identify the printing plate used, particularly with early British stamps.
Usage- Transitive
Noun
Precious metal, especially silver.
Usage- Uncountable
- usually
- Examples
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More examples (2)
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
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[…]
Noun
Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes.
Usage- Obsolete
- Examples
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[…] realms and islands were As plates dropp’d from his pocket.
A roundel of silver or argent.
Noun
(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- Synonyms
- Examples
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he ruled that the runner failed to touch home
a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
- Broader terms
a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
- Broader terms
dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
- Broader terms
the quantity contained in a plate
- Synonyms
- Broader terms
a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
- Synonyms
- Broader terms
the thin under portion of the forequarter
- Broader terms
a main course served on a plate
- Broader terms
- Examples
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a vegetable plate
the blue plate special
any flat platelike body structure or part
the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
- Broader terms
a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
- Synonyms
- Broader terms
structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
- Broader terms
a shallow receptacle for collection in church
- Synonyms
- Broader terms
a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- Broader terms
a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
- Synonyms
- Broader terms
Verb
coat with a layer of metal
- Examples
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plate spoons with silver