ALL meanings of plate
plate
P p - noun plate shallow food dish 1
- noun plate food selection, dish 1
- noun plate printed image 1
- noun plate metal plate 1
- noun plate metal coating 1
- noun plate serving, person being served 1
- noun plate baseball: player's location when hitting ball 1
- noun plate plated metallic dish 1
- noun plate photography: coated glass 1
- transitive verb plate coat with metal 1
- transitive verb plate armour: forge 1
- transitive verb plate make a printing plate 1
- transitive verb plate food: dish up, serve 1
- noun plate the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond. 1
- verb with object plate to coat (metal) with a thin film of gold, silver, nickel, etc., by mechanical or chemical means. 1
- verb with object plate to cover or overlay with metal plates for protection. 1
- verb with object plate Metalworking. to forge (a bloom or the like) into a broad piece. to hammer (cutlery) gently to produce an even surface. 1
- verb with object plate Printing. to make a stereotype or electrotype plate from (type). 1
- verb with object plate Papermaking. to give a high gloss to (paper), as on supercalendered paper. 1
- idioms plate have on one's plate, Informal. to have as an immediate task, obligation, or prospect: I had too much on my plate already to take on another task. 1
- countable noun plate A plate is a round or oval flat dish that is used to hold food. 0
- countable noun plate A plate of food is the amount of food on the plate. 0
- countable noun plate A plate is a flat piece of metal, especially on machinery or a building. 0
- countable noun plate A plate is a small, flat piece of metal with someone's name written on it, which you usually find beside the front door of an office or house. 0
- noun plural plate On a road vehicle, the plates are the panels at the front and back which display the license number in the United States, and the registration number in Britain. 0
- uncountable noun plate Plate is dishes, bowls, and cups that are made of precious metal, especially silver or gold. 0
- countable noun plate In printing, a plate is a sheet of metal which is carved or specially treated with chemicals so that it can be used to print text or pictures. 0
- countable noun plate In photography, a plate is a thin sheet of glass that is covered with a layer of chemicals which react to the light and on which an image can be formed. 0
- countable noun plate A plate in a book is a picture or photograph which takes up a whole page and is usually printed on better quality paper than the rest of the book. 0
- countable noun plate In a microscope, the plate is a small rectangular piece of glass onto which you put a small amount of the substance that you want to look at. You then slide the plate under the microscope to look at the substance. 0
- countable noun plate A dental plate is a piece of plastic which is shaped to fit inside a person's mouth and which a set of false teeth is attached to. 0
- countable noun plate In geology, a plate is a large piece of the Earth's surface, perhaps as large as a continent, which moves very slowly. 0
- countable noun plate In baseball, the plate is the same as the home plate. 0
- noun plate a shallow usually circular dish made of porcelain, earthenware, glass, etc, on which food is served or from which food is eaten 0
- noun plate (as modifier) 0
- noun plate the contents of a plate or the amount a plate will hold 0
- noun plate a plate of cakes, sandwiches, etc, brought by a guest to a party 0
- noun plate an entire course of a meal 0
- noun plate any shallow or flat receptacle, esp for receiving a collection in church 0
- noun plate flat metal of uniform thickness obtained by rolling, usually having a thickness greater than about three millimetres 0
- noun plate a thin coating of metal usually on another metal, as produced by electrodeposition, chemical action, etc 0
- noun plate metal or metalware that has been coated in this way, esp with gold or silver 0
- noun plate dishes, cutlery, etc, made of gold or silver 0
- noun plate a sheet of metal, plastic, rubber, etc, having a printing surface produced by a process such as stereotyping, moulding, or photographic deposition 0
- noun plate a print taken from such a sheet or from a woodcut, esp when appearing in a book 0
- noun plate a thin flat sheet of a substance, such as metal or glass 0
- noun plate armour made of overlapping or articulated pieces of thin metal 0
- noun plate a sheet of glass, or sometimes metal, coated with photographic emulsion on which an image can be formed by exposure to light 0
- noun plate an orthodontic device, esp one used for straightening children's teeth 0
- noun plate any flat platelike structure or part 0