a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
the contents of such a dish.
an entire course of a meal served on such a dish: I had the vegetable plate for lunch.
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the food and service for one person, as at a banquet, fund-raising dinner, or the like: The wedding breakfast cost $20 a plate.
household dishes, utensils, etc., of metal plated with gold or silver.
household dishes, utensils, etc., made of gold or silver.
Also called col·lec·tion plate[kuh-lek-shuhn pleyt], /kəˈlɛk ʃən ˌpleɪt/, of·fer·ing plate[aw-fer-ing pleyt, of-er‐] /ˈɔ fər ɪŋ ˌpleɪt, ˈɒf ər‐/ . a dish, as of metal or wood, used for collecting offerings, as in a church: I don't make enough money to tithe, but I always bring a few dollars for when they pass the plate during service.
a thin, flat sheet or piece of metal or other material, especially of uniform thickness.
metal in such sheets.
a flat, polished piece of metal on which something may be or is engraved.
Usually plates . license plate: a car with New Jersey plates.
a flat or curved sheet of metal, plastic, glass, or similar hard material, on which a picture or text has been engraved, etched, molded, photographically developed, or drawn, that is inked, as in a press, for printing impressions on other surfaces.
a printed impression from such a piece or from some similar piece, as a woodcut.
a full-page illustration in a book, especially an insert on paper different from the text pages.
a piece of armor made from a thin, flat piece or several such pieces of tough material, especially wrought iron or steel.
Electronics. one of the interior elements of a vacuum tube, toward which electrons are attracted by virtue of its positive charge; anode. Abbreviation: P
Carpentry. any of various horizontal timbers or boards laid flat across the heads of studding, upon floors, etc., to support joists, rafters, or studs at or near their ends.
a gold or silver cup or the like awarded as the prize in a horse race or some other contest.
a horse race or some other contest for such a prize.
Heraldry. a rounded argent.
v. 有主动词 verb
plat·ed,plat·ing.
to coat with a thin film of gold, silver, nickel, etc., by mechanical or chemical means.
to cover or overlay with metal plates for protection.
to place on or in a dish before serving: Plate the scallops, then deglaze the pan to make your sauce.
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Metalworking. to forge into a broad piece.to hammer gently to produce an even surface.
Printing. to make a stereotype or electrotype plate from.
Papermaking. to give a high gloss to, as on supercalendered paper.
While it doesn’t have a dry cycle, it’s still very efficient at getting those leftovers off the plate so all you have to do is dry them as you put them up.
This was a huge shift going from not knowing whether her technical SEO tickets were prioritized above a mystery plate of work tasks to developers caring about SEO every bit as much as they might frontend design details.
The home plate umpire then hears a voice through an earpiece.
So they’re letting streaming services take some off their plates.
Known as Borealopelta markmitchelli, this plant-muncher had been covered in plates of armor.
Using a heatproof slotted spoon, remove the shallots to a paper towel-lined plate.
Allow beans to cool completely then remove to a paper towel-lined plate to dry.
The young man had the presence of mind to tail Gaylard Williams out of the park and jot down his license plate.
Chris Stein of Blondie catches Ramone with an “aw, shucks” expression just after he drops a plate of food.
In another case, a whole plate of uneaten food (including nuts, hummus and raisins) was pureed and inserted rectally.
Well, the pudding moment arrived, and a huge slice almost obscured from sight the plate before us.
He conducts this ceremony with the greatest solemnity, occasionally pronouncing these incantatory words, "Plate or shell, sah?"
We sat down pell-mell, anywhere, I next to Liszt, who kept putting things on my plate.
He silenced her with a gesture, and, leaving a piece of toast half-eaten on his plate, he got up and went into his study.
The prizes were plate, and the profits were to be expended in repairing the havens of the kingdom.