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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(151) The plate was one of a pair but I broke its twin.
(152) Even the presidency was handed to him on a plate.
(153) I worked hard for what I've got. It wasn't handed to me on a plate.
(154) I thought the teapot was silver, but it's only plate.
(155) Visitors see the painting from behind a plate glass window.
(156) He balanced the plate on the top of a pile of books.
(157) You eat a massive plate of food for lunch, whereas I have just a sandwich.
(158) A brass plate beside the door said 'Dr Alan Tate'.
(159) Every day without variation my grandfather ate a plate of cold ham.
(160) The cripple choked and pushed the plate away.
(161) There are three types of plate boundary.
(162) Don't use that plate - it's chipped.
(163) She dropped a plate and it broke.
(164) Oh, the plate has a chip in it.
(165) Plate tectonics is not the same as continental drift.
(166) Sift the cornstarch on to a plate.
(167) Behind the plate is a chiselled cavity.
(168) Hust the number plate to buy Auntie for Christmas.
(168) Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and create good sentences.
(169) They occurred nowhere near a plate boundary.
(170) Anyway, the number plate gives the game away.
(171) Each team was provided with crepe paper, pins, a needle, rubber band, a doily and a paper plate.
(172) Dinner plate, ￡5.50; side plate, ￡3.50; espresso cup and saucer, ￡3.95.
(173) Garnish the guacamole with chilli powder or coriander sprigs, then serve in the centre of a plate of tortilla chips.
(174) Where oceanic lithosphere is subducted beneath another oceanic part of a plate the associated volcanic activity and produce an intra-oceanic island arc.
(175) Both statements agree: Get your vitamins and minerals from your plate, not your medicine chest.
(176) Pour a little of the vinaigrette in each of six ramekins and serve with the cooled artichokes on a large plate.
(177) Except where subduction zones lie adjacent to mountain belts on continental margins, plate boundaries do not coincide with continental coastlines.
(178) Slide the potato cake from the pan on to a plate.
(179) The lobster cocktail was plentiful but a touch cotton-woolly in texture, and for no visible reason arrived on a plate.
(180) Subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a plate carrying continental crust gives rise to a continental-margin orogen.
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