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plates

15 definitions • 16 examples
1
a flat, usually round dish with a slightly raised edge that you eat from or serve food from:

Examples:

clean/dirty plates
on a plate There's still lots of food on your plate.
2
an amount of food on a plate:

Examples:

Stephen ate three plates of spaghetti.
3
a flat piece of something that is hard and does not bend:

Examples:

bony plate Thick bony plates protected the dinosaur against attack.
steel plate The ship's deck is composed of steel plates.
4
a flat piece of metal with words and/or pictures on it that can be printed
5
a flat heavy object that is lifted in order to make the muscles stronger:

Examples:

Lift the plate above your head eight times.
Try holding the weights for 30 seconds and add plates as you gain strength.
6
a picture, especially in colour, in a book:

Examples:

The three birds differ in small features (see Plate 4).
7
informal for
8
ordinary metal with a layer of another metal on top:

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9
objects, especially plates, dishes, and cups, completely made of a valuable metal such as gold or silver:

Examples:

The thieves got away with a large quantity of church plate.
10
to cover a metal object with a thin layer of another metal, especially gold or silver:

Examples:

plate something with something We normally plate the car handles with nickel and then chrome.
11
a flat dish on which food is served or from which it is eaten
12
an amount of food on a plate:

Examples:

Dominic helped himself to a plate of spaghetti.
13
a flat piece of something that is hard, does not bend, and is usually used to cover something:

Examples:

Large, metal plates covered the trench in the roadway.
14
one of the large moving layers of rock that the earth's surface is believed to be made of
15
to cover a metal object with a thin layer of another metal, esp. gold or silver:

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