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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(181) The plate can be moved from side to side and backwards for tight corners.
(182) So he was sitting at the kitchen table eating his plate of beans when Donald walked in.
(183) Seattle sits on a fault caused by a plate sliding under the continental United States.
(184) Make a small bed of salad on each plate, then top with the gravadlax and cucumber salad.
(185) The filler is on top of the box on a small square plate just in front of the hand brake drum.
(186) The major differences in rift characteristics relate to their position with respect to plate boundaries and the intensity of volcanic activity associated with them.
(187) On a smaller plate set before Frankie was a sandwich made with thickly sliced bread, best butter and strawberry jam.
(188) What better suspect than some one with an out-of-state license plate[sentencedict.com], parked so very near the scene of the crime?
(189) It sells buttons, bumper stickers, jewelry, license plate frames and other items at conventions and rallies.
(190) Both Mccullin and Page were badly wounded, the latter was left with a steel plate in his brain.
(191) Her plate held a curious mixture of Spam, jelly, iced buns and lettuce leaves.
(192) In continental plate tectonics what seems static, the surface of the earth, is in reality in constant flux.
(193) The red cabbage salad is an extra treat on the plate.
(194) Her hands flinched from the hot plate as she cut her bacon into pieces, smaller and smaller.
(195) The V8 will not fit the 4 cylinder gearbox without an adaptor plate and suitably made engine mounts.
(196) She looked a bit bedraggled as she sat in the dining room, mechanically eating butter cookies from a blue glass plate.
(197) The edge of the overriding plate is crumpled and uplifted to form a mountain chain parallel to the trench.
(198) The theory of plate tectonics explains these phenomena and is commonly regarded as one of the cornerstones of modern geophysics.
(199) The possibility of such a mid-plate quake thus carries a much higher risk than one on a plate boundary.
(200) Josie picked up a plate of congealed egg and beans,[http://sentencedict.com/plate.html] and scraped it into the bin.
(201) The upper layer of a plate is composed of either oceanic or continental crust or both.
(202) He was picking crumbs from the plate when a diminutive, slope-shouldered man with a fixed, wan smile entered the room.
(203) The first ventral arm plate is pentagonal with the lateral edges raised forming a boundary lip to the second oral tentacle pores.
(204) There were always cream cakes and I would be brought mine ceremoniously on a plate.
(205) Open the door; hold the striker plate against the door frame in line with the deadbolt mark, and pencil in the outline.
(206) This is like sending Barry Bonds to the plate with the game on the line and having him bunt.
(207) Wedgwood plate from good china shops and department stores; bread and butter plate, ￡19.95; oval platter, ￡28.95.
(208) It had only a very small, hardly noticeable brass plate outside which gave nothing away.
(209) Once viewed as a relic, continental drift and seafloor spreading evolved into the modern concept of plate tectonics.
(210) Faster than new crust can be added to the plate, old crust is being consumed by the trench.
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