plate

1 a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic

2 (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home" [syn: home plate, home base, home]

3 a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)

4 dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten

5 the quantity contained in a plate [syn: plateful]

6 a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly [syn: crustal plate]

7 the thin under portion of the forequarter

8 a main course served on a plate; "a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special"

9 any flat platelike body structure or part

10 the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube

11 a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded [syn: photographic plate]

12 structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage

13 a shallow receptacle for collection in church [syn: collection plate]

14 a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) [syn: scale, shell]

15 a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth [syn: denture, dental plate]

16 the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws; "a catcher needs a lot of protective equipment"; "he plays behind the plate" [syn: catcher] v : coat with a layer of metal; "plate spoons with silver"

English

Etymology

Old French plate ← Medieval Latin plata ← Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us ← Medieval Greek πλατύς (broad, flat, wide).

Pronunciation

• /pleɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

1. A serving dish or food course.

   We filled our plate from the bountiful table.

2. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.

   A clutch usually has two plates.

3. A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
4. An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.

   We finished making the plates this morning.

5. In the context of "printing|photography}} An image or copy.

Plate may refer to:

• Plate (dishware)
• Plate (structures), in mechanics
• A flat piece of metal used in orthopedics to connect the two parts of a broken bone, such as a dynamic compression plate
• Plate armor, body armor made of metal plates
• Plate electrode, part of a vacuum tube
• Home plate, a piece of equipment in baseball
• Photographic plate, a type of film
• Printing plate, in lithography
  • A lithograph bound into a book, especially when the book is otherwise letterpress printed
• River Plate, a river in Uruguay and Argentina
• Steel plate, sheet metal in a thicker form
• Tectonic plate, in geology
• Vehicle registration plate
• A sub-class of Culture GSV
• Theoretical plate in separation processes
• Appendages of dinosaurs of the infraorders Stegosauria and Ankylosauria

• Roundel argent, in British heraldry
• Sterling silver cutlery and dishware
• Plating
• Wall plate - horizontal structural elements at the top and bottom of a wall in platform framing building construction methodology.
  • Wall plates are variously described as prefaced by the words: Sill, top, bottom, ceiling, floor, or base.

• Tourelle de la Plate, a lighthouse in France,
• Club Atlético River Plate, an Argentine football club based in Buenos Aires
• Christina Plate (1965-), German actress
• Plate, Germany, a municipality in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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