plate
- Noun. A dish from which food is served or eaten.
- Noun. The contents of such a dish.
- Noun. A course at a meal.
- Noun. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
- Noun. A vehicle license plate.
- Noun. (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver.
- Noun. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
- Noun. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
- Noun. (printing, photography) An image or copy.
- Noun. (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.
- Noun. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
- Noun. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
- Noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "''plates'' of meat".
- Noun. (baseball) Home plate.
- Noun. (geology) A tectonic plate.
- Noun. (historical) Plate armour.
- Noun. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
- Noun. (engineering, electricity) An electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
- Verb. To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
- Verb. To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
- Verb. To perform cunnilingus.
- Verb. (baseball) To score a run.
- Verb. (context, aviation) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.