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Word: plate (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A course at a meal.
  • A decorative or food service item coated with silver.
  • A dish from which food is served or eaten.
  • A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
  • An electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank
  • An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
  • A vehicle license plate
  • baseball Home plate.
  • Cockney rhyming slang A foot, from "''plates'' of meat".
  • construction A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
  • printing|photography An image or copy.
  • dentistry A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
  • geology A tectonic plate.
  • historical Plate armour.
  • printing An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
  • The contents of such a dish.
  • The type of scales covering some kinds of reptile.
  • weightlifting A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.

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Verb:

  • baseball To score a run.
  • To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
  • To perform cunnilingus.
  • To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.

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