plate

Definitions

• A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
• (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
• The contents of such a dish.
• A course at a meal.
• (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
• A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
• A vehicle license plate.
• A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
• A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
• A material covered with such a layer.
• (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver or gold.
• (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
• (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
• (printing) An image or copy.
• (printing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
• (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
• (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
• (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
• (baseball) home Home plate.
• (geology) A tectonic plate.
• (historical) plate Plate armour.
• (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
• (engineering) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
• (engineering) The anode of a vacuum tube.
• (obsolete) Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes (from ).
• (heraldic charge) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
• A prize given to the winner in a contest.
• (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
• (aviation) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
• (aviation) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
• (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
• One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
• A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
• (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
• (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
• (music) A record, usually vinyl.