plate

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See also:Plate,platé,platě,pláte,płatę,andплате

English

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A china plate.
Plate = anode.

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishplate,fromOld Frenchplate,fromMedieval Latinplata,fromVulgar Latin*plat(t)us,fromAncient Greekπλατύς(platús,“broad, flat, wide”).CompareSpanishplato.

Noun

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plate(pluralplates)

  2. A slightlycurvedbut almostflatdishfrom whichfoodisservedoreaten.
    I filled myplatefrom the bountiful table.
  3. (uncountable)Such dishes collectively.
  4. Thecontentsof such a dish.
    I ate aplateof beans.
  5. Acourseat ameal.
    The meatplatewas particularly tasty.
  6. (figuratively)Anagendaof tasks, problems, or responsibilities
    With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a fullplate.
  7. Aflatobject ofuniformthickness.
    The most important and most expensive part of any solar cell is a siliconplate.
  8. (especiallyAustralia;metonymically,plural only)Vehiclelicense plates,registration plates.
    Synonym:rego plates(Australia)
    He stole a car and changed theplatesas soon as he could.
  9. A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
  10. (historical)Plate armor.
    He was confronted by two knights in fullplate.
    • 1590,Edmund Spenser,“Book II, Canto V”, inThe Faerie Queene.[…],London:[…][John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC,page248:
      He hewd, and lasht, and foynd, and thondred blowes,
      And euery way did seeke into his life,
      Neplate,ne male could ward so mighty throwes,
      But yeilded passage to his cruell knife.
    • 1667,John Milton,“Book VI”, inParadise Lost.[…],London:[…][Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC;republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…],London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC,lines366-368:
      Two potent Thrones, that to be less then Gods
      Disdain’d, but meaner thoughts learnd in thir flight,
      Mangl’d with gastly wounds throughPlateand Maile.
  11. Alayerof a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material;plating
    The bullets just bounced off the steelplateon its hull.
  12. Amaterialcovered with such a layer.
    If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silverplate.
  13. (dated)An ornamental or food service item coated withsilverorgoldor otherwise decorated.
    The tea was served in theplate.
    • 1777,Richard Brinsley Sheridan,The School for Scandal,V.i:
      The silver ore of pure Charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good Qualities—whereas the sentimental FrenchPlateI use instead of it makes just as good a shew—and pays no tax.
  14. (weightlifting)Aweighteddisk,usually ofmetal,with a hole in the center for use with abarbell,dumbbell,orexercisemachine.
  15. (printing)Anengravedsurface used totransferan image to paper.
    We finished making theplatesthis morning.
  16. (printing,photography)Animageorcopy.
  17. (printing,publishing)Anillustrationin a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
  18. (dentistry)Ashapedandfittedsurface, usuallyceramicormetalthat fits into themouthand in whichteethareimplanted;adental plate.
  19. (construction)Ahorizontalframingmember at the top or bottom of a group ofverticalstuds.
  20. (Cockney rhyming slang)Afoot,from "platesof meat ".
    Sit down and give yourplatesa rest.
  21. (baseball)Home plate.
    There was a close play at theplate.
  22. (geology)Atectonic plate.
    • 2012,Chinle Miller,In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks,Kindle edition:
      Our planet's crust is split into eight majorplatesand many minorplates.
  23. (herpetology)Any of various largerscalesfound in somereptiles.
  24. (engineering,electricity)Aflatelectrodesuch as can be found in anaccumulatorbattery, or in anelectrolysistank.
  25. (engineering,electricity)Theanodeof avacuum tube.
    Regulating the oscillatorplatevoltage greatly improves the keying.
  26. Aprizegiven to thewinnerin acontest.
  27. (chemistry)Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
  28. (aviation,travel industry,dated)A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
  29. (aviation,travel industry,by extension)The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
  30. (Australia)A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
  31. One of the thin parts of thebrisketof ananimal.
  32. A very lightsteelhorseshoeforracehorses.
  33. (furriers' slang)Skinsforfurliningsofgarments,sewntogether and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
  34. (hat-making)The finenap(as ofbeaver,musquash,etc.) on ahatwhose body is made frominferiormaterial.
  35. (music)Arecord,usuallyvinyl.
  36. (military)trauma plate.
    The SAPIplatein his vest protected him from the bullet's impact.
  37. (slang,seduction community)Any of thepotentialromanticorsexualpartnerswith whom a person keeps in touch as part ofplate spinning.
    Moreplatesmeans more dates!
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • →Maori:pereti
  • →Hindi:प्लेट(pleṭ)
Translations
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printing, publishing: full page illustration
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishplaten,fromOld EnglishplatianandOld Frenchplater,both ultimately fromLatinplata(see above).

Verb

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plate(third-person singular simple presentplates,present participleplating,simple past and past participleplated)

  1. To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
    This ring isplatedwith a thin layer of gold.
  2. (cooking,photography)To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
    After preparation, the chef willplatethe dish.
    • 2011,“HYFR”, inTake Care,performed byDrakeft.Lil Wayne:
      I took her for sushi, she wanted to fuck / So we took it to go, told 'em don't evenplateit
  3. (baseball)To score arun.
    The singleplatedthe runner from second base.
  4. (transitive)To arm or defend with metal plates.
  5. (transitive)To beat into thin plates.
  6. (aviation,travel industry)To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
    Tickets are normallyplatedon an itinerary's first international airline.
  7. (philately)to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
  8. (philately,particularly with early British stamps)To identify the printing plate used.
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Etymology 3

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FromMiddle English,partly fromAnglo-Normanplate(“plate, bullion”)and partly fromLatinplata(“silver”),fromVulgar Latin*platta(“metal plate”),from feminine ofLatin*plattus(“flat”).

Noun

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plate(usuallyuncountable,pluralplates)

  1. Precious metal, especially silver.
    • 1864,Andrew Forrester,The Female Detective:
      At every meal—and I have heard the meals at Petleighcote were neither abundant nor succulent—enoughplatestood upon the table to pay for the feeding of the poor of the whole county for a month
    • 1950,Mervyn Peake,Gormenghast,London:Eyre & Spottiswoode,→OCLC:
      At the northern extremity of this chill province the goldplateof the Groans, pranked across the shining black of the long table, smoulders as though it contains fire[…]

Etymology 4

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FromSpanishplata(“silver”).

Noun

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plate(pluralplates)

  1. (obsolete)Silver or gold, in the form of acoin,or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes.
  2. (heraldry)Aroundelofsilverorargent.
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metals main colours less common colours
tincture or argent gules azure sable vert purpure tenné orange sanguine
depiction a shield of gold a shield of silver a shield of red a shield of blue a shield of black a shield of green a shield of purple a shield of brownish orange a shield of bright orange a shield of blood red
roundel(in parentheses:semé): a circle of gold
bezant(bezanty)		 a circle of silver
plate(platy)		 a circle of red
torteau(tortelly)		 a circle of blue
hurt(hurty)		 a circle of black
pellet(pellety),ogress		 a circle of green
pomme

 a circle of purple
golpe(golpy)		 a circle of orange
orange(semé of oranges)		 a circle of blood red
guze(semé of guzes)
goutte(noun)/gutty(adj)thereof: a drop of gold
(goutte/gutty)d'or(ofgold)		 a drop of silver
d'eau(ofwater)		 a drop of red
de sang(ofblood)		 a drop of blue
de larmes(oftears)		 a drop of black
de poix

(ofpitch)		 a drop of green
d'huile/d'olive(olive oil)		 a drop of purple
special roundel furs additional, uncommon tinctures:
tincture fountain,syke:barry wavy argent and azure ermine ermines,counter-ermine erminois pean vair counter-vair potent counter-potent bleu celeste,brunâtre,carnation,cendrée(iron,steel,acier),copper,murrey
depiction a circle of wavy blue and silver bars a shield of ermine a shield of ermines a shield of erminois a shield of pean a shield of vair a shield of countervair a shield of potent a shield of counterpotent

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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plate

  1. femininesingularofplat

Noun

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platef(pluralplates)

  1. very small flat boat

Etymology 2

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Adjective

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plate(pluralplates) (Canada,informal)

  1. boring
    • 1999,Chrystine Brouillet,Les Fiancées de l'Enfer,→ISBN,page204:
      On va se mettre à ressembler aux gens qui racontent leur crisse de vieplatedans les émissions de télé débiles.
      We're going to sound like those people who tell their frickin'boringlives on those idiotic tv shows.
  2. Annoying or disappointing
    C’estplatede ne pas pouvoir y aller.
    It'stoo badthat we can't go.

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Etymology 3

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Noun

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platef(pluralplates)

  1. (heraldry)plate,roundelargent

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disque de métal (besant) disque d'émail (tourteau) autre
couleur or argent gueules azur sable sinople pourpre orangé d'argent entouré d'un anneau de sable
nom besant plate guse,buse heurte ogoesse pomme,somme,volet gulpe orange œil de faucon
a circle of gold a circle of silver a circle of red a circle of blue a circle of black a circle of green a circle of purple a circle of orange a thick black ring around a circle of white

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Latvian

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Noun

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platef(5th declension)

  1. plate
  2. table-leaf
  3. (music)record
  4. (music)disc
  5. (computing)board
  6. (computing)card
  7. (computing)printed circuit board
  8. (computing)circuit board

Declension

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Declension ofplate(5th declension)
singular(vienskaitlis) plural(daudzskaitlis)
nominative(nominatīvs) plate plates
accusative(akuzatīvs) plati plates
genitive(ģenitīvs) plates plašu
dative(datīvs) platei platēm
instrumental(instrumentālis) plati platēm
locative(lokatīvs) platē platēs
vocative(vokatīvs) plate plates

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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FromOld Norseplata,fromAncient Greekπλατύς(platús,“broad, flat, wide”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key):/plaː.te/,[ˈplaː.tə]

Noun

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plateform(definite singularplataorplaten,indefinite pluralplater,definite pluralplatene)

  1. plate(thin, flat object)
  2. record(vinyl disc)

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References

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“plate”inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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FromOld Norseplata,fromAncient Greekπλατύς(platús,“broad, flat, wide”).

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platef(definite singularplata,indefinite pluralplater,definite pluralplatene)

  1. plate(thin, flat object)
  2. record(vinyl disc)

Synonyms

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References

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“plate”inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromVulgar Latin*platta,*plattus.

Noun

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plateoblique singular,f(oblique pluralplates,nominative singularplate,nominative pluralplates)

  1. a flat metaldisk
  2. a flatplateof armor

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Scots

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Etymology

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Middle English,fromOld Frenchplate.

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plate(pluralplates)

  1. bowl
    Can A hev a plate o soup?―Can I have a bowl of soup?

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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plate(Cyrillic spellingплате)

  1. inflection ofplata:
    1. genitivesingular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocativeplural

Verb

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plate(Cyrillic spellingплате)

  1. third-personpluralpresentofplatiti
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