plate

I filled my plate from the bountiful table.

A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.

A valuable collection of silver plate was donated to the museum.

I ate a plate of beans.

The meat plate was particularly tasty.

With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.

(figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities

The most important and most expensive part of any solar cell is a silicon plate.

He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.

(especially Australia; metonymic, plural only) Vehicle license plates, registration plates.

A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.

He was confronted by two knights in full plate.

He hewd, and lasht, and foynd, and thondred blowes,
And euery way did seeke into his life,
Ne plate, ne male could ward so mighty throwes,
But yeilded passage to his cruell knife.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 248:

Two potent Thrones, that to be less then Gods
Disdain’d, but meaner thoughts learnd in thir flight,
Mangl’d with gastly wounds through Plate and Maile.

1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 366-368:

The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull.

A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating

If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.

The tea was served in the plate.

The silver ore of pure Charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good Qualities—whereas the sentimental French Plate I use instead of it makes just as good a shew—and pays no tax.

1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.i:

(dated) An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.

(weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.

We finished making the plates this morning.

(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.

Sit down and give your plates a rest.

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

(Cockney rhyming slang) A person's foot.

There was a close play at the plate.

Our planet's crust is split into eight major plates and many minor plates.

2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:

(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.

Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.

(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, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.

(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.

The SAPI plate in his vest protected him from the bullet's impact.

More plates means more dates!

(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.

→ Maori: pereti

→ Hindi: प्लेट (pleṭ)

гравю́ра

printing: engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper

làmina

printing, publishing: full page illustration

lipunkirjoitusoikeus

aviation: ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline

From Middle English plate, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato.
(foot): Cockney rhyming slang, from "plates of meat" for "feet".


plate

This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.

To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.

After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.

I took her for sushi, she wanted to fuck / So we took it to go, told 'em don't even plate it

2011, “HYFR”, in Take Care, performed by Drake ft. Lil Wayne:

(cooking, photography) To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.

The single plated the runner from second base.

(transitive) To arm or defend with metal plates.

Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.

(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.

en-verb

plate (third-person singular simple present plates, present participle plating, simple past and past participle plated)

plates (present singular third-person)
plating (participle present)
plated (participle past)
plated (past)

галванизирам

to cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material

From Middle English platen, from Old English platian and Old French plater, both ultimately from Latin plata (see above).


plate

At every meal—and I have heard the meals at Petleighcote were neither abundant nor succulent—enough plate stood upon the table to pay for the feeding of the poor of the whole county for a month

1864, Andrew Forrester, The Female Detective:

At the northern extremity of this chill province the gold plate of the Groans, pranked across the shining black of the long table, smoulders as though it contains fire[…]

1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:

en-noun

plate (usually uncountable, plural plates)

From Middle English, partly from Anglo-Norman plate (“plate, bullion”) and partly from Latin plata (“silver”), from Vulgar Latin *platta (“metal plate”), from feminine of Latin *plattus (“flat”).


plate

[…] realms and islands were
As plates dropp’d from his pocket.

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

(obsolete) Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes.

(heraldry) A roundel of silver or argent.