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Definition of Plate

1. Noun. (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"

2. Verb. Coat with a layer of metal. "Plate spoons with silver"

3. Noun. A sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic.

4. Noun. A full-page illustration (usually on slick paper).

5. Noun. Dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten.

6. Noun. The quantity contained in a plate.

7. Noun. A rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly.

8. Noun. The thin under portion of the forequarter.

9. Noun. A main course served on a plate. "The blue plate special"

10. Noun. Any flat platelike body structure or part.

11. Noun. The positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube.

12. Noun. A flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded.

13. Noun. Structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage.

14. Noun. A shallow receptacle for collection in church.

15. Noun. A metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners).

16. Noun. A dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth.

Definition of Plate

1. n. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.

2. v. t. To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.

3. n. A small five-sided area (enveloping a diamond- shaped area one foot square) beside which the batter stands and which must be touched by some part of a player on completing a run; -- called also home base, or home plate.

Definition of Plate

1. Noun. A dish from which food is served or eaten. ¹

2. Noun. The contents of such a dish. ¹

3. Noun. A course at a meal. ¹

4. Noun. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness. ¹

5. Noun. A vehicle license plate. ¹

6. Noun. (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver. ¹

7. Noun. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine. ¹

8. Noun. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper. ¹

9. Noun. (printing photography) An image or copy. ¹

10. Noun. (printing publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages. ¹

11. Noun. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate. ¹

12. Noun. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs. ¹

13. Noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "''plates'' of meat". ¹

14. Noun. (baseball) Home plate. ¹

15. Noun. (geology) A tectonic plate. ¹

16. Noun. (historical) Plate armour. ¹

17. Noun. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles. ¹

18. Noun. (engineering electricity) An electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank. ¹

19. Verb. To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal. ¹

20. Verb. To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving. ¹

21. Verb. To perform cunnilingus. ¹

22. Verb. (baseball) To score a run. ¹

23. Verb. (context: aviation travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plate

1. to coat with a thin layer of metal [v PLATED, PLATING, PLATES]

Medical Definition of Plate

1. 1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate. 2. Metallic armor composed of broad pieces. "Mangled . . . Through plate and mail." (Milton) 3. Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc, wrought in gold or silver. 4. Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold. 5. A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table. 6. [Cf. Sp. Plata silver] A piece of money, usually silver money. "Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket." 7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate. 8. A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates. 9. That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc. 10. A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters. 11. A roundel of silver or tinctured argent. 12. A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc, with a coating that is sensitive to light. 13. A prize giving to the winner in a contest. Plate is sometimes used in an adjectival sense or in combination, the phrase or compound being in most cases of obvious signification; as, plate basket or plate-basket, plate rack or plate-rack. Home plate. A wheel, the rim and hub of which are connected by a continuous plate of metal, instead of by arms or spokes. Origin: OF. Plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. Plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. Plat flat, Gr. See Place. 1. To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping. 2. To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense. "Thus plated in habiliments of war." (Shak) 3. To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness. 4. To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae. 5. To calender; as, to plate paper. Origin: Plated; Plating. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plate

plasty plat plat du jour platable platan platane platanes platanist platanna platannas

platans platanus platarsite platband platbands plate-gilled plate appearance plate appearances plate armor plate armour

plate boundaries plate girder plate iron plate of modiolus plate powder plate rack plate rail plate reader

Literary usage of Plate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"This armature plate revolved in front of a field plate carrying two pieces of tin-foil ... The studs on the armature plate were charged inductively by being ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1875)
"Luge plate $o 25 и Small Cards Per set, 40 та " in holders " 45 American Elk. ... Large plate 25 iz Small C»rds Per set, 4° 12 " in holders " 45 Set i, ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"My apparatus consisted primarily of a charged zinc plate and an electrometer. The plate was placed inside a box of the same metal from which it was ..."

4. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1889)
"plate I.—Lower surface of tea-leaf 200 plate П.—Internal structure of leaf 200 plate Ш.—Stone cells of tea-leaf 200 plate TV. ..."

5. The Sun by Charles Greeley Abbot (1911)
"Spectroheliograms of solar prominences (Slo- cum) 166 " plate XV. ... Photographs of a portion of the sun (Jansen) 202 i- plate XVII. ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The plate moves at a rate of about 11 feet a minute. In other types of machines the plate is fixed in a pit below and the cutting tools are traversed over ..."

7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"This armature plate revolved in front of a field plate carrying two pieces of tin-foil ... The studs on the armature plate were charged inductively by being ..."

8. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1875)
"Luge plate $o 25 и Small Cards Per set, 40 та " in holders " 45 American Elk. ... Large plate 25 iz Small C»rds Per set, 4° 12 " in holders " 45 Set i, ..."

9. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"My apparatus consisted primarily of a charged zinc plate and an electrometer. The plate was placed inside a box of the same metal from which it was ..."

10. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1889)
"plate I.—Lower surface of tea-leaf 200 plate П.—Internal structure of leaf 200 plate Ш.—Stone cells of tea-leaf 200 plate TV. ..."

11. The Sun by Charles Greeley Abbot (1911)
"Spectroheliograms of solar prominences (Slo- cum) 166 " plate XV. ... Photographs of a portion of the sun (Jansen) 202 i- plate XVII. ..."

12. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The plate moves at a rate of about 11 feet a minute. In other types of machines the plate is fixed in a pit below and the cutting tools are traversed over ..."

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