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Noun: plate pleyt- Dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
- (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- home plate, home base, home - A sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
- A full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
- The quantity contained in a plate
- plateful - A rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
- crustal plate - The thin under portion of the forequarter
- A main course served on a plate
"a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special" - Any flat platelike body structure or part
- The positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
- A flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
- photographic plate - Structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
- A shallow receptacle for collection in church
- collection plate - A metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- scale, shell - A dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
- denture, dental plate
Verb: plate pleyt- Coat with a layer of metal
"plate spoons with silver"
Sounds like: plait Derived forms: plated, plating, plates See also: plater, plating Type of: anatomical structure, anode, bag, base, bodily structure, body structure, coat, complex body part, containerful, crust, cut of beef, dental appliance, Earth's crust, entrée, flat solid, flatware [N. Amer], illustration, main course, receptacle, sheet, shield, structural member, structure, surface Part of: construction, electron tube, structure, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, tube, vacuum tube Encyclopedia: Plate Plate, Germany |