plate
plate definition
plate (plāt)
noun
- a smooth, flat, relatively thin piece of metal or other material
- a sheet of metal made by beating, rolling, or casting
- any of the thin sheets of metal, plastic, etc. used in one kind of armor (plate armor)
- such armor
- a thin, flat piece of metal on which an engraving is, or is to be, cut
- an impression taken from the engraved metal
- a print of a woodcut, lithograph, etc., esp. when used in a book
- a full-page book illustration of any kind, printed on paper of a stock different from that of the text
- dishes, utensils, etc. of silver or gold, collectively
- metal dishes, utensils, etc., or any metallic ware, plated with gold or silver
- a shallow dish, usually circular, from which food is eaten
- plateful
- the food in a dish; a course a fruit plate
- food and service for an individual at a meal dinner at twenty dollars a plate
- a dish or other container passed in churches, etc. for donations of money
- a prize, orig. a gold or silver cup, given to the winner of a race or contest
- a contest, esp. a horse race, for such a prize, rather than for stakesalso called plate race
- petri dish
- a thin cut of beef from the forequarter, just below the short ribs
- Anat., Zool. a thin layer, plate, or scale, as of bone or horny tissue; lamina; scute
- Archit. a horizontal wooden girder that supports the trusses or rafters of a roof
- Baseball home plate
- Dentistry
- that part of an artificial denture which fits to the mouth and holds the teeth
- loosely a full set of false teeth
- Elec. anode (senses & )
- Philately the impression surface from which a sheet of postage stamps is printed
- Photog. a sheet of glass, metal, etc., coated with a film sensitive to light, upon which the image is formed
- Printing a cast, to be printed from, made from a mold of set type or from a negative prepared as by photocomposition
Etymology: OFr, flat object < fem. of plat, flat < VL *plattus < Gr platys, broad, flat: see platy-
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