Preposition: of

• food: Ideally, ask someone else to select a small plateful of low-fat food for you.

• meze: It is a great place to while away a relaxing lunchtime with a plateful of meze and a cold bottle of beer.

• rice: Meanwhile I started on my gumbo which in this restaurant was a murky brown fish soup poured over a plateful of rice.

• potato: The first plateful of early potatoes must be one of the treats of the season.

Converse of object

• have: He had a plateful of something brought up to him.

Adjective modifier

• huge: It was approaching Christmas when they next came back and I made a huge plateful.

• large: It is considered disrespectful not to try a large plateful of everything, so I left school that day feeling rather full!

• small: Ideally, ask someone else to select a small plateful of low-fat food for you.

• whole: Prices range from £ 5.15 to £ 7.60, which seems pretty reasonable for a whole plateful of delicious pizza.

• first: The first plateful of early potatoes must be one of the treats of the season.