"nameplate" meaning in English

See nameplate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: nameplates [plural]
Etymology: name + plate Etymology templates: {{compound|en|name|plate}} name + plate Head templates: {{en-noun}} nameplate (plural nameplates)
  1. A plate or plaque inscribed with a name. Translations (A plate or plaque inscribed with a name): 名牌 (míngpái) (Chinese Mandarin), 姓名牌 (xìngmíngpái) (Chinese Mandarin), naambord [neuter] (Dutch), nimikilpi (Finnish), nimikyltti (Finnish), plaque (de nom) [feminine] (French), Namensschild [neuter] (German), ainmchlár [masculine] (Irish), 名札 (nafuda) (alt: なふだ) (Japanese), ネームプレート (nēmupurēto) (Japanese), placă (de nume) [feminine] (Romanian), табли́чка (tablíčka) (alt: с и́менем) [feminine] (Russian), именна́я табли́чка (imennája tablíčka) [feminine] (Russian), namnskylt [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-nameplate-en-noun-NowrFLWx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Disambiguation of 'A plate or plaque inscribed with a name': 99 1
  2. The masthead of a newspaper.
    Sense id: en-nameplate-en-noun-WETnyssT
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: name plate Derived forms: nameplated, nameplating

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for nameplate meaning in English (4.3kB)

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "nameplated"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "nameplating"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "name",
        "3": "plate"
      },
      "expansion": "name + plate",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "name + plate",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nameplates",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nameplate (plural nameplates)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "69 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "the nameplate on a locomotive",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "the brass nameplate on the doctor's front door",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. \"Hall\" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350",
          "text": "No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words \"Hall Class\" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 December 18, Peter Margasak, “Punk Planet's New Atmosphere”, in Chicago Reader",
          "text": "Now the chintzy nameplate is all that distinguishes his work space from those of the photocopier repairperson, diet food company, and kitchen designer down the hall.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27",
          "text": "By March 1994, it had moved to Cardiff Canton, and was still allocated there when its nameplates were taken off in March 1997.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name."
      ],
      "id": "en-nameplate-en-noun-NowrFLWx",
      "links": [
        [
          "plate",
          "plate"
        ],
        [
          "plaque",
          "plaque"
        ],
        [
          "inscribed",
          "inscribed"
        ],
        [
          "name",
          "name"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "míngpái",
          "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
          "word": "名牌"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "xìngmíngpái",
          "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
          "word": "姓名牌"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "naambord"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
          "word": "nimikilpi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
          "word": "nimikyltti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "plaque (de nom)"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Namensschild"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ainmchlár"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "alt": "なふだ",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nafuda",
          "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
          "word": "名札"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nēmupurēto",
          "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
          "word": "ネームプレート"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "placă (de nume)"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "alt": "с и́менем",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "tablíčka",
          "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "табли́чка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "imennája tablíčka",
          "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "именна́я табли́чка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "namnskylt"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The masthead of a newspaper."
      ],
      "id": "en-nameplate-en-noun-WETnyssT",
      "links": [
        [
          "masthead",
          "masthead"
        ],
        [
          "newspaper",
          "newspaper"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "name plate"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nameplate"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "nameplated"
    },
    {
      "word": "nameplating"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "name",
        "3": "plate"
      },
      "expansion": "name + plate",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "name + plate",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nameplates",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nameplate (plural nameplates)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "the nameplate on a locomotive",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "the brass nameplate on the doctor's front door",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. \"Hall\" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350",
          "text": "No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words \"Hall Class\" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 December 18, Peter Margasak, “Punk Planet's New Atmosphere”, in Chicago Reader",
          "text": "Now the chintzy nameplate is all that distinguishes his work space from those of the photocopier repairperson, diet food company, and kitchen designer down the hall.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27",
          "text": "By March 1994, it had moved to Cardiff Canton, and was still allocated there when its nameplates were taken off in March 1997.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "plate",
          "plate"
        ],
        [
          "plaque",
          "plaque"
        ],
        [
          "inscribed",
          "inscribed"
        ],
        [
          "name",
          "name"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The masthead of a newspaper."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "masthead",
          "masthead"
        ],
        [
          "newspaper",
          "newspaper"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "name plate"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "míngpái",
      "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
      "word": "名牌"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xìngmíngpái",
      "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
      "word": "姓名牌"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "naambord"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
      "word": "nimikilpi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
      "word": "nimikyltti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "plaque (de nom)"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Namensschild"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ainmchlár"
    },
    {
      "alt": "なふだ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nafuda",
      "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
      "word": "名札"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nēmupurēto",
      "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
      "word": "ネームプレート"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "placă (de nume)"
    },
    {
      "alt": "с и́менем",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tablíčka",
      "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "табли́чка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "imennája tablíčka",
      "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "именна́я табли́чка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "A plate or plaque inscribed with a name",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "namnskylt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nameplate"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). 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.