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See also: Plate, platé, platě, pláte, płatę, and плате

English

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A china plate.
Plate = anode.

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (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.
    I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
  2. (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
  3. The contents of such a dish.
    I ate a plate of beans.
  4. A course at a meal.
    The meat plate was particularly tasty.
  5. (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
    With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.
  6. A flat object of uniform thickness.
    The most important and most expensive part of any solar cell is a silicon plate.
  7. (especially Australia; metonymically, plural only) Vehicle license plates, registration plates.
    Synonym: rego plates (Australia)
    He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
  8. A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
  9. (historical) Plate armor.
    He was confronted by two knights in full plate.
  10. A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
    The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull.
  11. A material covered with such a layer.
    If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.
  12. (dated) An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.
    The tea was served in the plate.
    • 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 French Plate I use instead of it makes just as good a shew—and pays no tax.
  13. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
  14. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
    We finished making the plates this morning.
  15. (printing, photography) An image or copy.
  16. (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.
  17. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
  18. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
  19. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
    Sit down and give your plates a rest.
  20. (baseball) Home plate.
    There was a close play at the plate.
  21. (geology) A tectonic 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 major plates and many minor plates.
  22. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
  23. (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
  24. (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
    Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.
  25. A prize given to the winner in a contest.
  26. (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
  27. (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
  28. (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
  29. (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
  30. One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
  31. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
  32. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
  33. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
  34. (music) A record, usually vinyl.
  35. (military) trauma plate.
    The SAPI plate in his vest protected him from the bullet's impact.
  36. (slang, seduction community) Any of the potential romantic or sexual partners with whom a person keeps in touch as part of plate spinning.
    More plates means more dates!
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Maori: pereti
  • → Hindi: प्लेट (pleṭ)
Translations
printing, publishing: full page illustration
Cockney rhyming slang: foot — see foot
baseball: home plate — see home plate
geology: tectonic plate — see tectonic plate
prize given to the winner in a contest — see prize
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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.
    This ring is plated with 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 will plate the dish.
    • 2011, “HYFR”, in Take Care, performed by Drake ft. Lil Wayne:
      I took her for sushi, she wanted to fuck / So we took it to go, told 'em don't even plate it
  3. (baseball) To score a run.
    The single plated the 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 normally plated on 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.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From 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.
    • 1864, Andrew Forrester, The Female Detective:
      At every meal—and I have heard the meals at Petleighcote were neither abundant nor succulent—enough plate stood 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 gold plate of the Groans, pranked across the shining black of the long table, smoulders as though it contains fire […]

Etymology 3

From Spanish plata (“silver”).

Noun

plate (plural plates)

  1. (obsolete) Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes.
  2. (heraldry) A roundel of silver or argent.
Translations

See also

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 (of gold)		 a drop of silver
d'eau (of water)		 a drop of red
de sang (of blood)		 a drop of blue
de larmes (of tears)		 a drop of black
de poix

(of pitch)		 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

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Adjective

plate

  1. feminine singular of plat

Noun

plate f (plural plates)

  1. very small flat boat

Etymology 2

Adjective

plate (plural plates)

  1. (Canada, informal) annoyingly boring
    • 1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, →ISBN, page 204:
      On va se mettre à ressembler aux gens qui racontent leur crisse de vie plate dans les émissions de télé débiles.
      We're going to sound like those people who tell their frickin' boring lives on those idiotic tv shows.
  2. (Canada, informal) Troublesome

Further reading

Etymology 3

Noun

plate f (plural plates)

  1. (heraldry) plate, roundel argent

See also

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

Anagrams

Latvian

Noun

plate f (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

Declension of plate (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

Synonyms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse plata, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”).

Pronunciation

Noun

plate f or m (definite singular plata or platen, indefinite plural plater, definite plural platene)

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

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

“plate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse plata, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”).

Pronunciation

Noun

plate f (definite singular plata, indefinite plural plater, definite plural platene)

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

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

“plate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus.

Noun

plate oblique singular, f (oblique plural plates, nominative singular plate, nominative plural plates)

  1. a flat metal disk
  2. a flat plate of armor

Descendants

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (plate)

Scots

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French plate.

Pronunciation

Noun

plate (plural plates)

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

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

plate (Cyrillic spelling плате)

  1. inflection of plata:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

plate (Cyrillic spelling плате)

  1. third-person plural present of platiti
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