Definition of Plate

Noun: plate  pleyt

  1. Dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
     
  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 plate";
    - home plate, home base, home
     
  3. A sheet of metal, wood, glass or plastic
     
  4. A full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
     
  5. The quantity contained in a plate
    - plateful
     
  6. A rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
    - 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
    - photographic plate
     
  12. Structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
     
  13. A shallow receptacle for collection in church
    - collection plate
     
  14. A metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
    - scale, shell
     
  15. A dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
    - denture, dental plate
Verb: plate  pleyt
  1. Coat with a layer of metal
    "plate spoons with silver"

See also:
Platanus
plateau

Anagrams containing the word plate

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