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      plate
      noun
      A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
      (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
      The contents of such a dish.
      A course at a meal.
      (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
      A flat object of uniform thickness.
      (especially Australia; metonymic, plural only) Vehicle license plates, registration plates.
      A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
      A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
      A material covered with such a layer.
      (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
      (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
      (printing, photography) An image or copy.
      (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
      (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
      (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
      (Cockney rhyming slang) A person's foot.
      (baseball) Home plate.
      (geology) A tectonic plate.
      (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
      (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
      (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
      A prize given to the winner in a contest.
      (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
      (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
      (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
      One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
      A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
      (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
      (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
      (music) A record, usually vinyl.
      (military) trauma plate.
      (slang, seduction community) Any of the potential romantic or sexual partners with whom a person keeps in touch as part of plate spinning.
      (Lego building) A Lego piece that is thin, 1/3 the height of a brick, and has studs on top.
      Precious metal, especially silver.
      (heraldry) A roundel of silver or argent.
      The River Plate.
      (dated) An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.
      (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
      (historical) Plate armor.
      (obsolete) Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes.
      verb
      To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
      (cooking, photography) To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
      (baseball) To score a run.
      (transitive) To arm or defend with metal plates.
      (transitive) To beat into thin plates.
      (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
      (philately) to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
      (philately, particularly with early British stamps) To identify the printing plate used.
      Roots
      platysplate- · Greek · flat, broad
      Synonyms for plate
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