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Meaning of plate in English

plate
noun
uk/pleɪt/ us/pleɪt/

plate noun (DISH)

A1 [ C ]
a flat, usually round dish with a slightly raised edge that you eat from or serve food from:
a dinner/salad plate
clean/dirty plates
on a plate There's still lots of food on your plate.
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[ C ] (also plateful)
an amount of food on a plate:
Stephen ate three plates of spaghetti.

plate noun (FLAT PIECE)

[ C ]
a flat piece of something that is hard and does not bend:
bony plate Thick bony plates protected the dinosaur against attack.
steel plate The ship's deck is composed of steel plates.
[ C ] publishing specialized
a flat piece of metal with words and/or pictures on it that can be printed
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sports specialized
a flat heavy object that is lifted in order to make the muscles stronger:
Lift the plate above your head eight times.
Try holding the weights for 30 seconds and add plates as you gain strength.

plate noun (PICTURE)

[ C ] publishing specialized
The three birds differ in small features (see Plate 4).

plate noun (IN BASEBALL)

the plate [ S ] US
informal for home plate
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plate noun (THIN LAYER)

[ U ]
ordinary metal with a layer of another metal on top:
silver plate The knives and forks are silver plate.
[ U ]
objects, especially plates, dishes, and cups, completely made of a valuable metal such as gold or silver:
The thieves got away with a large quantity of church plate.
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plate
verb [ T ]
uk/pleɪt/ us/pleɪt/
to cover a metal object with a thin layer of another metal, especially gold or silver:
plate something with something We normally plate the car handles with nickel and then chrome.

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(Definition of plate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

plate | American Dictionary

plate
noun
us/pleɪt/

plate noun (DISH)

[ C ]
a flat dish on which food is served or from which it is eaten
[ C ] (also plateful)
an amount of food on a plate:
Dominic helped himself to a plate of spaghetti.

plate noun (FLAT PIECE)

[ C ]
a flat piece of something that is hard, does not bend, and is usually used to cover something:
Large, metal plates covered the trench in the roadway.

plate noun (LAYER)

[ C ] earth science us/pleɪt/
one of the large moving layers of rock that the earth's surface is believed to be made of
plate
verb [ T ]
us/pleɪt/

plate verb [T] (ADD THIN LAYER)

to cover a metal object with a thin layer of another metal, esp. gold or silver:
gold plated
(Definition of plate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of plate

plate
Half-tone illustrations, requiring art paper plates, will be accepted in special circumstances.
The effect of the virus on host fitness was computed from the sum of the numbers of colonies counted on the duplicate competition plates.
In contrast, larvae from control plates remained alive and with vigorous movement throughout the assessment period.
Viability tests involved streaking of an aliquot of the suspension on sterile plates containing the appropriate nutrient medium for each species.
Many of these are illustrated in the eighteen colour plates and eight monochrome figures.
The numbers afterwards are issued in volumes each containing four numbers and amounting to between 400 and 500 pages, with plates and figures.
Importantly, however, most of the cells in these cell lines were capable to form spheres when cultured in low-binding plates even in the serum-containing medium.
The plates were incubated at room temperature for 60 min and washed before a substrate solution was added.
Worms, transferred to microtitre plates using insect pins, were placed individually in the bottom of a well containing 200 l of water.
The wells in each of the 3 types of plates were filled with approximately 15 ml of distilled water.
The moving ampoule blow against metal plates created the impulse acceleration.
The ilmenite grains generally form dendritic plates (arrowed) in contrast to the euhedral orthopyroxene grains.
The limestones are pure calcarenites lacking siliciclastic detritus and containing a distinctive fossil assemblage of crinoid plates, algal grains, corals, ammonoids, brachiopods and fusulinids.
Batteries are housed in the end cap, and these supply heaters that warm heater plates in the oil chamber.
Mountains, molecules, and tectonic plates, for example, exist and would exist if there had never been any humans or animals.
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Collocations with plate

plate

These are words often used in combination with plate.

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agar plate
Bacterial colonies grew quasi-two-dimensionally on the agar plate surface.
backing plate
The rigid backing plate merely passively reflects the sound that is transmitted through the perforated screen.
bony plate
The zygomatic plate, a bony plate at the side of the skull, was broad.
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Translations of plate

in Chinese (Traditional)
盤, 盤子,碟子, 一碟…
in Chinese (Simplified)
盘, 盘子,碟子, 一盘…
in Spanish
plato llano, plato, plancha…
in Portuguese
prato, prato [masculine], placa [feminine]…
थाळी / ताट, ताटलीतील अन्न…
皿, 平皿, 皿(さら)…
tabak, sahan, tabaka…
assiette [feminine], plaque [feminine] d’immatriculation, plaque [feminine] minéralogique…
plat pla…
bord, plaat, plateerwerk…
ஒரு தட்டையான, வழக்கமாக வட்ட வடிவிலான பாத்திரம் சற்று உயர்த்தப்பட்ட விளிம்புடன் நீங்கள் சாப்பிடுவதற்கு அல்லது அதன் மூலம் உணவை பரிமாற பயன்படுத்துகிறீர்கள், ஒரு தட்டில் உள்ள உணவின் அளவு…
प्लेट, तश्तरी, प्लेट (पर भोजन की मात्रा)…
થાળી, ડીશ, પ્લેટ…
tallerken, -tallerken, plade…
fat, tallrik, platta…
pinggan, plat, gambar…
die Platte, das Geschirr, das Schild…
tallerken [masculine], nummerskilt [neuter], plate [masculine]…
پلیٹ, طشتری, پلیٹ (ایک مقدار میں پلیٹ میں رکھا ہوا کھانا)…
тарілка, плита, лист…
పల్లెము/ప్లేటు, ప్లేట్లు…
প্লেট, থালা, খাবারের পরিমাণ…
talíř, plát, stolní náčiní…
piring, lembaran logam, barang berlapis emas…
จาน, แผ่นโลหะ, ของที่ชุบด้วยเงิน หรือทอง…
cái đĩa, tấm, đồ mạ…
talerz, płyta, proteza…
접시…
piatto, lamiera, argenteria…
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