English Explanatory Dictionary

plate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
  2. Such dishes collectively.
  3. The contents of such a dish.
  4. A course at a meal.
  5. An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
  6. A flat object of uniform thickness.
  7. Vehicle license plates, registration plates.
  8. A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
  9. Plate armor.
  10. A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
  11. A material covered with such a layer.
  12. An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.
verb
  1. To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
  2. To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
  3. To score a run.
  4. To arm or defend with metal plates.
  5. To beat into thin plates.
  6. To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
  7. to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
  8. To identify the printing plate used.
noun
  1. Precious metal, especially silver.
noun
  1. Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes.
  2. A roundel of silver or argent.
name
  1. The River Plate.

Pronunciation

/ˈpleɪ̯t/ [ˈpʰl̥eɪ̯t] en-us-plate.ogg En-uk-a plate.ogg /ˈplæ̝ɪ̯t/ en-au-plate.ogg

Word forms

plate plates plating plated the Plate

Etymology

From Middle English plate, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato. (foot): Cockney rhyming slang, from "plates of meat" for "feet".

Synonyms

rego plates

Derived words

armor plate armour plate armplate assay plate autoplate backplate base plate baseplate bedplate beef plate Bitter plate black plate blue plate blue-plate blue-plate special blue plate special bodyplate boiler plate boilerplate boiling plate bookplate bread-and-butter plate breastplate brest-plate bridging plate buckler plate butter plate buttplate cake plate catch plate CD plate cell plate chainplate Champy plate channel plate cheek plate chestplate china plate Chladni plate Chladni's plate chromium-plate chromium plate clean one's plate clean up one's plate clutch plate clutchplate collection plate collection-plate continental plate cooking plate copperplate cornplate cortical plate counterplate cribriform plate dam plate dead plate deckplate dessert-plate diamond plate

Translations

Bulgarian: пласти́на Catalan: làmina Czech: štítek Dutch: plaat Esperanto: plato Finnish: levy Finnish: laatta French: plaque Galician: placa German: Platte German: Scheibe German: Blech German: Tafel Greek: έλασμα Ancient Greek: ἔλασμα Hebrew: לוּחַ Hungarian: fémlap Hungarian: fémlemez Hungarian: lap Hungarian: lemez Hungarian: tárcsa Italian: placca Italian: lamella Latvian: plāksne Macedonian: плоча Norwegian Bokmål: plate Polish: płyta Portuguese: placa Romanian: placă Russian: пласти́на Russian: пласти́нка Russian: табли́чка Russian: ши́льдик Scottish Gaelic: lann Scottish Gaelic: clàr Sicilian: placa Sicilian: lanna Sicilian: lamera Spanish: placa Spanish: lámina Swedish: platta Ottoman Turkish: لوحه Ukrainian: пласти́на Ukrainian: метале́вий лист Ukrainian: табли́чка
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