Definitions for Plate

Plate plate

Spelling: [pleyt]
IPA: /pleɪt/

Plate is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in Plate (aelpt).

Definitions for Plate

noun

  1. a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
  2. the contents of such a dish; plateful.
  3. an entire course of a meal served on such a dish:
  4. the food and service for one person, as at a banquet, fund-raising dinner, or the like:
  5. household dishes, utensils, etc., of metal plated with gold or silver.
  6. household dishes, utensils, etc., made of gold or silver.
  7. Also called collection plate. a dish, as of metal or wood, used for collecting offerings, as in a church.
  8. a thin, flat sheet or piece of metal or other material, especially of uniform thickness.
  9. metal in such sheets.
  10. a flat, polished piece of metal on which something may be or is engraved.
  11. license plate.
  12. a flat or curved sheet of metal, plastic, glass, or similar hard material, on which a picture or text has been engraved, etched, molded, photographically developed, or drawn, that is inked, as in a press, for printing impressions on other surfaces.
  13. a printed impression from such a piece or from some similar piece, as a woodcut.
  14. a full-page illustration in a book, especially an insert on paper different from the text pages.
  15. a piece of armor made from a thin, flat piece or several such pieces of tough material, especially wrought iron or steel.
  16. armor composed of thin, flat pieces; plate armor.
  17. Dentistry. the part of a denture that conforms to the mouth and contains the teeth. the entire denture.
  18. Baseball. the plate, home plate. rubber1 (def 14).
  19. plate glass.
  20. Photography. a sheet of glass, metal, etc., coated with a sensitized emulsion, used for taking a photograph.
  21. Anatomy, Zoology. a platelike part, structure, or organ.
  22. a thin piece or cut of beef from the lower end of the ribs.
  23. Geology. crustal plate.
  24. Electronics. one of the interior elements of a vacuum tube, toward which electrons are attracted by virtue of its positive charge; anode. Abbreviation: P.
  25. Carpentry. any of various horizontal timbers or boards laid flat across the heads of studding, upon floors, etc., to support joists, rafters, or studs at or near their ends.
  26. a gold or silver cup or the like awarded as the prize in a horse race or some other contest.
  27. a horse race or some other contest for such a prize.
  28. Heraldry. a rounded argent.
  29. a coin, especially of silver.
  30. the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.

Idioms

  1. have on one's plate, Informal. to have as an immediate task, obligation, or prospect:

verb (used with object)

  1. to coat (metal) with a thin film of gold, silver, nickel, etc., by mechanical or chemical means.
  2. to cover or overlay with metal plates for protection.
  3. Metalworking. to forge (a bloom or the like) into a broad piece. to hammer (cutlery) gently to produce an even surface.
  4. Printing. to make a stereotype or electrotype plate from (type).
  5. Papermaking. to give a high gloss to (paper), as on supercalendered paper.

Origin of Plate

1250-1300; Middle English Old French: literally, something flat, noun use of feminine of plat flat1 Vulgar Latin *plattus, akin to Greek platýs broad, flat

Examples for Plate

To unwind, Sharp takes long showers, and stops himself from separating his food on his plate as Christopher would.

She brought a plate full of rice, and a big piece of chicken.

Chris Stein of Blondie catches Ramone with an “aw, shucks” expression just after he drops a plate of food.

He folded the letter, laid it down by the side of his plate, and began to eat again.

South of Silicon Valley, an entire town is being deformed, slowly, by plate tectonics.

Your eggs are carried from the kitchen to the dining-room table on a plate.

So in the cutting room, we got a plate of a horse and put a CGI guy getting on him.

"I'll take another piece of fish, mother," said Robert, passing his plate.

But when the time came you stepped up to the plate just like George W. Bush did.

Will Nature teach them the mystery of a plate of turtle-soup?

Word Value for Plate
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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