plate

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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: plāt, IPA^(key): /pleɪt/, [pʰl̥eɪt]
• Homophone: plait
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

plate (plural plates)

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

2. (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
3. The contents of such a dish.

4. A course at a meal.

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

6. A flat object of uniform thickness.

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

   Synonym: rego plates (Australia)

8. A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
9. (historical) Plate armor.
10. A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating

11. A material covered with such a layer.

12. (dated) An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.
13. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
14. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.

15. (printing, photography) An image or copy.
16. (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.
17. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
18. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
19. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".

20. (baseball) Home plate.

21. (geology) A tectonic plate.
22. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
23. (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
24. (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.

25. A prize given to the winner in a contest.
26. (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
27. (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
28. (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
29. (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
30. One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
31. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
32. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
33. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
34. (music) A record, usually vinyl.
35. (military) trauma plate.

36. (slang, seduction community) Any of the potential romantic or sexual partners with whom a person keeps in touch as part of plate spinning.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Maori: pereti
• → Hindi: प्लेट (pleṭ)

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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

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

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

4. (transitive) To arm or defend with metal plates.
5. (transitive) To beat into thin plates.
6. (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.

7. (philately) to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
8. (philately, particularly with early British stamps) To identify the printing plate used.

Derived terms

• chrome-plated
• chromium-plated
• electroplate
• nickel-plated
• plate away
• plate out
• plating

Translations

Etymology 3

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”).

Noun

plate (usually uncountable, plural plates)

1. Precious metal, especially silver.

Etymology 4

From Spanish plata (“silver”).

Noun

plate (plural plates)

1. (obsolete) Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes.
2. (heraldry) A roundel of silver or argent.

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• -petal, Patel, leapt, lepta, palet, pelta, petal, pleat, tepal

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plat/

Etymology 1

Adjective

plate

1. feminine singular of plat

Noun

plate f (plural plates)

1. very small flat boat

Etymology 2

Adjective

plate (plural plates)

1. (Canada, informal) annoyingly boring
2. (Canada, informal) Troublesome

Further reading

• “plate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Etymology 3

Noun

plate f (plural plates)

1. (heraldry) plate, roundel argent

See also

Anagrams

• palet, pelât, petal, leapt, pleat

Latvian

Noun

plate f (5th declension)

1. plate
2. table-leaf
3. (music) record
4. (music) disc
5. (computing) board
6. (computing) card
7. (computing) printed circuit board
8. (computing) circuit board

Declension

Synonyms

• dēlis
• plāksne
• plātne
• (computing) drukātās shēmas plate
• (computing) shēmas plate

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse plata, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plaː.te/, [ˈplaː.tə]

Noun

plate f or m (definite singular plata or platen, indefinite plural plater, definite plural platene)

1. plate (thin, flat object)
2. record (vinyl disc)

Synonyms

• (flat object): skive

Derived terms

• kokeplate
• plateselskap

References

“plate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse plata, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²plɑːtə/

Noun

plate f (definite singular plata, indefinite plural plater, definite plural platene)

1. plate (thin, flat object)
2. record (vinyl disc)

Synonyms

• (flat object): skive

Derived terms

• kokeplate
• plateselskap

References

“plate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• platte

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus.

Noun

plate oblique singular, f (oblique plural plates, nominative singular plate, nominative plural plates)

1. a flat metal disk
2. a flat plate of armor

Descendants

• → Middle English:
  • English: plate
    • → Maori: pereti
    • → Hindi: प्लेट (pleṭ)
  • Scots: plate
• → Irish: pláta

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (plate)

Scots

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French plate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plet/, or sometimes IPA^(key): /plɪt/ in the Borders

Noun

plate (plural plates)

1. bowl

   Can A hev a plate o soup? ― Can I have a bowl of soup?

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

plate (Cyrillic spelling плате)

1. inflection of plata:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

plate (Cyrillic spelling плате)

1. third-person plural present of platiti