plate
noun
[ pleɪt ]
• a flat dish, typically circular and made of china, from which food is eaten or served.
• "he pushed his empty plate to one side and sipped his wine"
Similar:
dish,
platter,
bowl,
salver,
dinner plate,
side plate,
soup plate,
ashet,
trencher,
charger,
paten,
• dishes, bowls, cups, and other utensils made of gold, silver, or other metal.
• "an exhibition of the plate belonging to the college"
• a thin, flat sheet or strip of metal or other material, typically one used to join or strengthen things or forming part of a machine.
• "he underwent surgery to have a steel plate put into his leg"
• a thin, flat organic structure or formation.
• "the fused bony plates protect the tortoise's soft parts"
• each of the several rigid pieces of the earth's lithosphere which together make up the earth's surface.
• "the Pacific Ocean plate"
• a sheet of metal, plastic, or other material bearing an image of type or illustrations from which multiple copies are printed.
• "the correct alignment of the plates in four-colour printing"
• a thin piece of plastic moulded to the shape of a person's mouth and gums, to which artificial teeth or another orthodontic appliance are attached.
• a thin piece of metal that acts as an electrode in a capacitor, battery, or cell.
plate
verb
• cover (a metal object) with a thin coating of a different metal.
• serve or arrange (food) on a plate or plates.
• "overcooked vegetables won't look appetizing, no matter how they are plated"
• score or cause to score (a run or runs).
• "Matt Wignot plated two of Clarkson's runs"
• inoculate (cells or infective material) on to a culture plate, especially with the object of isolating a particular strain of microorganisms or estimating viable cell numbers.
Origin:
Middle English (denoting a flat, thin sheet, usually of metal): from Old French, from medieval Latin plata ‘plate armour’, based on Greek platus ‘flat’. plate (sense 1 of the noun) represents Old French plat ‘platter, large dish’, also ‘dish of meat’, noun use of Old French plat ‘flat’.
