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the plate

/pleyt/US // pleɪt //UK // (pleɪt) //

板块,该板块,盘子,盘点

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n.名词 noun
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    • : 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.
    • : 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.
    • : armor composed of thin, flat pieces; plate armor.
    • : Dentistry. the part of a denture that conforms to the mouth and contains the teeth.the entire denture.
    • : Baseball. the plate. home plate. rubber.
    • : plate glass.
    • : Photography. a sheet of glass, metal, etc., coated with a sensitized emulsion, used for taking a photograph.
    • : Anatomy, Zoology. a platelike part, structure, or organ.
    • : a thin piece or cut of beef from the lower end of the ribs.
    • : Geology. crustal plate.
    • : 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
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    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.
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.