Synonym: collection plate, crustal plate, dental plate, denture, home, home base, home plate, photographic plate, plateful, scale, shell. Similar words: contemplate, platform, late, later, relate, lately, electroplating, violate. Meaning: [pleɪt] 
n. 1. a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic 2. (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score 3. a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper) 4. dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten 5. the quantity contained in a plate 6. a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly 7. the thin under portion of the forequarter 8. a main course served on a plate 9. any flat platelike body structure or part 10. the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube 11. a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded 12. structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage 13. a shallow receptacle for collection in church 14. a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) 15. a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth. v. coat with a layer of metal.
n. 1. a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic 2. (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score 3. a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper) 4. dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten 5. the quantity contained in a plate 6. a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly 7. the thin under portion of the forequarter 8. a main course served on a plate 9. any flat platelike body structure or part 10. the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube 11. a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded 12. structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage 13. a shallow receptacle for collection in church 14. a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) 15. a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth. v. coat with a layer of metal. 
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(91) She slopped some beans onto a plate.
(92) She scoffed the plate of biscuits.
(93) My plate was already full.
(94) He read the brass name plate by the door.
(95) Arsenal handed the game to them on a plate.
(96) Auntie Ann put a huge wedge of fruit cake on my plate.
(97) I can't help you at the moment -- I've far too much on my plate already.
(98) They just handed the game to the other team on a plate.
(99) He piled his plate with as much food as he could.
(100) Can you read a car number plate at fifty metres?
(101) She was balancing a plate of food on her knees.
(102) These bullets can punch a hole through 20 mm steel plate.
(103) The fore end tube plate of the condenser has cracked beyond repair.
(104) Try the seafood plate.
(105) She sat picking at her small plate of rice salad with an air of martyrdom.
(106) This plate has been damaged it won't print very well.
(107) He piled as much food as he could onto his plate.
(108) She sat down,[http://sentencedict.com/plate.html] regarding the plate in front of her with disfavour.
(109) She'd just as soon throw your plate in your face as serve you.
(110) There were three kinds of cakes / cake on the plate.
(111) I'm all fingers and thumbs today. That's the second plate I've dropped this morning.
(112) He stuck a piece of fried fish on the fork and put it on the plate.
(113) On a plate in front of him was piled a pyramid of flat white biscuits.
(114) We normally plate the car handles with nickel and then chrome.
(115) The white plate is banded with a blue line round the edge.
(116) Sarah picked at a plate of cheese for supper, but she wasn't really hungry.
(117) I could see how hungry she was from the way she cleared her plate.
(118) He prodded at the plate of fish with his fork.
(119) I was looking enviously at your plate, wishing I'd had the fish.
(120) It's considered good manners in some societies to leave a little food on your plate.
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