- coat with a layer of metal; "plate spoons with silver"
- home plate: (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"
- a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
- a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
- dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
- the quantity contained in a plate
- 9158 Platè is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1273.4074395 days (3.49 years).
- A plate is a type of dishware, a broad, concave, but mainly flat vessel on which food is served. They can also be used for ceremonial or decorative purposes.
- A shallow foundation is a type of foundation which transfers building loads to the earth very near the surface, rather than to a subsurface layer or a range of depths as does a deep foundation. ...
- Plate and Platé are surnames.
- A dish from which food is served or eaten; The contents of such a dish; A course at a meal; A flat metallic object of uniform thickness; A vehicle license plate; A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine; An engraved ...
- (Plates) Flat, typically rectangular components that contain the active material and a mechanical support structure called a grid, which also has an electrical function, carrying electrons to and from the active material. ...
- Plates are the carriers of the images that are to be printed on paper. One printing plate is required for each ink color printed. Metal plates are currently the only way to produce high quality close-register printed images. Plates can also be made out of plastic and paper.
- (Plates) Whole-page illustrations printed separately from the text. Illustrations printed in the text pages are called cuts.
- (Plates) The flat discs placed on the ends of barbell and dumbbell bars to increase the weight of the apparati. Although some plates are made from vinyl-covered con-crete, the best and most durable plates are manufactured from metal.
- (Plates) A metal plate, usually lead or lead compound, immersed in the electrolyte in a battery.
- (plates) Giant, rigid slabs of the Earth's crust. The plates "float" on a dense, fluid layer just beneath them.
- (PLATES) Shoes horses wear in races. Racing plates.
- (Plates) Pieces of wood placed on wall surfaces as fastening devices. The bottom member of the wall is the sole plate and the top member is the rafter plate.
- (PLATES) A flat sheet of metal used singularly or as a part in a larger apparatus.
- (PLATES) A heraldic term for a number of particularly (but not exclusively) white or silver discs – but see ‘quinas’ (also ‘bezant’, ‘disc’ and ‘roundel 2)’). ...
- (Plates) (playtz) n. Cymbals. also frizbee
- (Plates) A metal sheet of coated material that transfers ink from the printing press to paper.
- (Plates) Dies or Blocks and / or metal plates on which the Die is attached too.
- (Plates) Illustrations, cut on copper or steel plates, which were then inked and printed on sheets of heavier paper separately from the rest of the work in which they appear. Such illustrations were often provided in early magazines as bonuses to subscribers. ...