| 单词 | plate |
| 释义 | Word Frequency plate(pleɪt) noun 1. a. a shallow usually circular dish made of porcelain, earthenware, glass, etc, on which food is served or from which food is eaten b. (as modifier) a plate rack 2. a. Also called: plateful the contents of a plate or the amount a plate will hold b. Australian and New Zealand a plate of cakes, sandwiches, etc, brought by a guest to a party everyone was asked to bring a plate 3. an entire course of a meal a cold plate 4. any shallow or flat receptacle, esp for receiving a collection in church 5. flat metal of uniform thickness obtained by rolling, usually having a thickness greater than about three millimetres 6. a thin coating of metal usually on another metal, as produced by electrodeposition, chemical action,etc 7. metal or metalware that has been coated in this way, esp with gold or silver Sheffield plate 8. dishes, cutlery, etc, made of gold or silver 9. a sheet of metal, plastic, rubber, etc, having a printing surface produced by a process such as stereotyping, moulding, or photographic deposition 10. a print taken from such a sheet or from a woodcut, esp when appearing in a book 11. a thin flat sheet of a substance, such as metal or glass 12. armour made of overlapping or articulated pieces of thin metal 13. photography a. a sheet of glass, or sometimes metal, coated with photographic emulsion on which an image can be formed by exposure to light b. (as modifier) a plate camera 14. an orthodontic device, esp one used for straightening children's teeth 15. an informal word for denture (sense 1) 16. anatomy any flat platelike structure or part 17. a. a cup or trophy awarded to the winner of a sporting contest, esp a horse race b. a race or contest for such a prize 18. any of the rigid layers of the earth's lithosphere of which there are believed to be at least 15 See also plate tectonics 19. electronics a. mainly US the anode in an electronic valve b. an electrode in an accumulator or capacitor 20. a horizontal timber joist that supports rafters or studs 21. a light horseshoe for flat racing 22. a thin cut of beef from the brisket 23. plate rail 24. Also called: Communion plate Roman Catholic Church a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host 25. archaic a coin, esp one made of silver 26. a full plate 27. on a plate 28. on one's plate verb (transitive) 29. to coat (a surface, usually metal) with a thin layer of other metal by electrolysis, chemical reaction, etc 30. to cover with metal plates, as for protection 31. printing to make a stereotype or electrotype from (type or another plate) 32. to form (metal) into plate, esp by rolling 33. to give a glossy finish to (paper) by calendering 34. to grow (microorganisms) in a culture medium Word origin C13: from Old French: thin metal sheet, something flat, from Vulgar Latin plattus (unattested); related to Greek platus flatWord Frequency Plate(pleɪt) noun River Plate |
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