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Definition plate

Etymology 1

From Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato.

Noun

plate (plural plates)

1. A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
2. (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
3. The contents of such a dish.
4. A course at a meal.
5. (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
6. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
7. A vehicle license plate.
8. A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
9. A material covered with such a layer.
10. (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver or gold.
11. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
12. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
13. (printing, photography) An image or copy.
14. (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.
15. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
16. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
17. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
18. (baseball) Home plate.
19. (geology) A tectonic plate.
20. (historical) Plate armour.
21. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
22. (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
23. (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
24. (obsolete) Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes (from Spanish plata, silver).
25. (heraldry) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
26. A prize given to the winner in a contest.
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 the brisket of an animal.
32. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
33. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
34. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
35. (music) A record, usually vinyl.

Verb

plate (third-person singular simple present plates, present participle plating, simple past and past participle plated)

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. (baseball) To score a run.
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.

Etymology 2

Middle English, partly from Anglo-Norman plate (“plate, bullion”) and partly from Latin plata (“silver”), from Vulgar Latin *platta (“metal plate”), from feminine of Latin plattus (“flat”).

Noun

plate (usually uncountable, plural plates)

1. Precious metal, especially silver.

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