plate

• enPR: plāt, IPA^(key): /pleɪt/

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• Homophone: plait
• Rhymes: -eɪt

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.

plate (plural plates)

1. A 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 metallic object of uniform thickness.

   A clutch usually has two plates.

7. A vehicle license plate.

   He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.

8. 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.

9. A material covered with such a layer.

   If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.

10. (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver.

    The tea was served in the plate.

11. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
12. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.

    We finished making the plates this morning.

13. (printing, photography) An image or copy.
14. (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.
15. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
16. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
17. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".

    Sit down and give your plates a rest.

18. (baseball) Home plate.

    There was a close play at the plate.

19. (geology) A tectonic plate.
20. (historical) Plate armour.

    He was confronted by two knights in full plate.

    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 5, p. 248,

      He hewd, and lasht, and foynd, and thondred blowes,

      And euery way did seeke into his life,

      Ne plate, ne male could ward so mighty throwes,

      But yeilded passage to his cruell knife.

    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 6, lines 366-368,

      Two potent Thrones, that to be less then Gods

      Disdain’d, but meaner thoughts learnd in thir flight,

      Mangl’d with gastly wounds through Plate and Maile.

21. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
22. (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
23. (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.

    Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.

24. (obsolete) Silver, in the form of a coin, or less often silver utensils or dishes (from Spanish plata, silver).
    • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2,

      […] realms and islands were

      As plates dropp’d from his pocket.

25. (heraldry) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
26. A prize given to the winner in a contest.
27. (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
28. (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
29. (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
30. (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
31. One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
32. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
33. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
34. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
35. (music) A record, usually vinyl.

• → Maori: pereti
• → Hindi: प्लेट (pleṭ)

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. To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.

   After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.

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.

• chrome-plated
• chromium-plated
• electroplate
• nickel-plated

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”).

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

     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 […]

• -petal, Patel, leapt, lepta, palet, pelta, petal, pleat, tepal

• IPA^(key): /plat/

plate

1. feminine singular of plat

plate f (plural plates)

1. Very small flat boat.

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 they frickin' boring lives on those idiotic tv shows.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. (Canada, informal) Troublesome.

• palet, pelât, petal, leapt, pleat

• “plate” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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

• dēlis
• plāksne
• plātne
• (computing) drukātās shēmas plate
• (computing) shēmas plate

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

• IPA^(key): /plaː.te/, [ˈplaː.tə]

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

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

• (flat object): skive

• kokeplate
• plateselskap

“plate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /²plɑːtə/

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

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

• (flat object): skive

• kokeplate
• plateselskap

“plate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• platte

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

1. a flat metal disk
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, 'Érec et Énide':

     De mars d'or et d'arjant an plates

     Gold coins and disks of silver

2. a flat plate of armor

• → Middle English: [Term?]
  • English: plate
    • → Maori: pereti
    • → Hindi: प्लेट (pleṭ)
  • Scots: plate
• → Irish: pláta

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (plate)

• IPA^(key): /plet/, or sometimes IPA^(key): /plɪt/ in the Borders

plate (plural plates)

1. bowl

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