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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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