"plate block" meaning in All languages combined

See plate block on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: plate blocks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} plate block (plural plate blocks)
  1. (philately) A block of stamps from the edge of the sheet which shows the plate from which the stamps were printed. Wikipedia link: plate block Categories (topical): Philately
    Sense id: en-plate_block-en-noun-1EP6MlZ5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, philately

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plate blocks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "plate block (plural plate blocks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Philately",
          "orig": "en:Philately",
          "parents": [
            "Hobbies",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997 June 18, R Sumner, “Re: Why collect new U.S.?”, in rec.collecting.stamps (Usenet):",
          "text": "I gave up plate blocks long ago, but still obtain PNC's - but only one of each issue and without regard to the particular number.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A block of stamps from the edge of the sheet which shows the plate from which the stamps were printed."
      ],
      "id": "en-plate_block-en-noun-1EP6MlZ5",
      "links": [
        [
          "philately",
          "philately"
        ],
        [
          "block",
          "block"
        ],
        [
          "stamp",
          "stamp"
        ],
        [
          "sheet",
          "sheet"
        ],
        [
          "plate",
          "plate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(philately) A block of stamps from the edge of the sheet which shows the plate from which the stamps were printed."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "philately"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "plate block"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "plate block"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plate blocks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "plate block (plural plate blocks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Philately"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997 June 18, R Sumner, “Re: Why collect new U.S.?”, in rec.collecting.stamps (Usenet):",
          "text": "I gave up plate blocks long ago, but still obtain PNC's - but only one of each issue and without regard to the particular number.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A block of stamps from the edge of the sheet which shows the plate from which the stamps were printed."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "philately",
          "philately"
        ],
        [
          "block",
          "block"
        ],
        [
          "stamp",
          "stamp"
        ],
        [
          "sheet",
          "sheet"
        ],
        [
          "plate",
          "plate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(philately) A block of stamps from the edge of the sheet which shows the plate from which the stamps were printed."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "philately"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "plate block"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "plate block"
}

Download raw JSONL data for plate block meaning in All languages combined (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.