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ˈdial-plate
[f. dial n.1 + plate.]
The face-plate of a dial; spec. (in Clock-making) the sheet of metal, glass, etc. on the face of which the hours, etc. are marked; = dial n.1 4.
1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2603/4 A little Gold Watch with a white Enamell Dial-Plate, made in France. 1781Cowper Conversation 380 The circle formed..Like figures drawn upon a dial-plate. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 63 Niches..in which different.. names might be slid..in the same way as the ever-changing days of the month are slid into the dial-plates of our clocks. 1840Carlyle Heroes iii. (1858) 263 His characters are like watches with dial-plates of transparent crystal.
fig.1829Lytton Disowned 59 Every stroke upon the dial-plate of wit was true to the genius of the hour. 1836Emerson Nature, Lang. Wks. (Bohn) II. 153 The visible world..is the dial plate of the invisible.
b. A graduated plate used with a lapidary's dial.
1875Ure Dict. Arts III. 42 A needle..marks by its points the divisions on the dial-plate. |