nouna shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is contents of such a entire course of a meal served on such a dish I had the vegetable plate for food and service for one person, as at a banquet, fund-raising dinner, or the like The wedding breakfast cost $20 a dishes, utensils, etc., of metal plated with gold or dishes, utensils, etc., made of gold or called collection plate [kuh-lek-shuhn pleyt], /kəˈlɛk ʃən ˌpleɪt/, offering 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 thin, flat sheet or piece of metal or other material, especially of uniform in such flat, polished piece of metal on which something may be or is plates . license plate a car with New Jersey 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 printed impression from such a piece or from some similar piece, as a full-page illustration in a book, especially an insert on paper different from the text piece of armor made from a thin, flat piece or several such pieces of tough material, especially wrought iron or composed of thin, flat pieces; plate armor. Dentistry. the part of a denture that conforms to the mouth and contains the entire Photography. a sheet of glass, metal, etc., coated with a sensitized emulsion, used for taking a Zoology. a platelike part, structure, or thin piece or cut of beef from the lower end of the crustal plate the Pacific Plate;the Cocos and Rivera one of the interior elements of a vacuum tube, toward which electrons are attracted by virtue of its positive charge; anode. Abbreviation PCarpentry. 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 gold or silver cup or the like awarded as the prize in a horse race or some other horse race or some other contest for such a a rounded used with object,plated, plat coat metal with a thin film of gold, silver, nickel, etc., by mechanical or chemical cover or overlay with metal plates for place food on or in a dish before serving often followed by up Plate the scallops, then deglaze the pan to make your to forge a bloom or the like into a broad hammer cutlery gently to produce an even to make a stereotype or electrotype plate from type.Papermaking. to give a high gloss to paper, as on supercalendered about platehave on one's plate, Informal. to have as an immediate task, obligation, or prospect I had too much on my plate already to take on another of plate1First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English plate, plaite, from Old French literally, “something flat,” noun use of feminine of adjective plat, from unattested Vulgar Latin plattus, from Greek platýs “broad, flat”; see also flat1Other words from plateplateless, adjectiveplatelike, adjectiveWords Nearby platePlataPlataeaplatanplatbandplat du jourplateplate armorplate armourplateauPlateau's problemplate blockOther definitions for plate 2 of 2 coin, especially of of plate2First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English, from Old French; special use of plate Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023How to use plate in a sentenceWhile 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 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 home plate umpire then hears a voice through an they’re letting streaming services take some off their as Borealopelta markmitchelli, this plant-muncher had been covered in plates of a heatproof slotted spoon, remove the shallots to a paper towel-lined beans to cool completely then remove to a paper towel-lined plate to young man had the presence of mind to tail Gaylard Williams out of the park and jot down his license Stein of Blondie catches Ramone with an “aw, shucks” expression just after he drops a plate of another case, a whole plate of uneaten food including nuts, hummus and raisins was pureed and inserted the pudding moment arrived, and a huge slice almost obscured from sight the plate before 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 silenced her with a gesture, and, leaving a piece of toast half-eaten on his plate, he got up and went into his prizes were plate, and the profits were to be expended in repairing the havens of the Dictionary definitions for plate 1 of 2nouna shallow usually circular dish made of porcelain, earthenware, glass, etc, on which food is served or from which food is eatenas modifier a plate rackAlso called plateful the contents of a plate or the amount a plate will holdAustralian and NZ a plate of cakes, sandwiches, etc, brought by a guest to a party everyone was asked to bring a platean entire course of a meal a cold plateany shallow or flat receptacle, esp for receiving a collection in churchflat metal of uniform thickness obtained by rolling, usually having a thickness greater than about three millimetresa thin coating of metal usually on another metal, as produced by electrodeposition, chemical action, etcmetal or metalware that has been coated in this way, esp with gold or silver Sheffield platedishes, cutlery, etc, made of gold or silvera sheet of metal, plastic, rubber, etc, having a printing surface produced by a process such as stereotyping, moulding, or photographic depositiona print taken from such a sheet or from a woodcut, esp when appearing in a booka thin flat sheet of a substance, such as metal or glassarmour made of overlapping or articulated pieces of thin metalphotog a sheet of glass, or sometimes metal, coated with photographic emulsion on which an image can be formed by exposure to lightas modifier a plate cameraan orthodontic device, esp one used for straightening children's teethanatomy any flat platelike structure or parta cup or trophy awarded to the winner of a sporting contest, esp a horse racea race or contest for such a prizeany of the rigid layers of the earth's lithosphere of which there are believed to be at least 15 See also plate tectonicselectronics mainly US the anode in an electronic valvean electrode in an accumulator or capacitora horizontal timber joist that supports rafters or studsa light horseshoe for flat racinga thin cut of beef from the brisketAlso called Communion plate RC Church a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Hostarchaic a coin, esp one made of silveron a plate in such a way as to be acquired without further trouble he was handed the job on a plateon one's plate waiting to be done or dealt with he has a lot on his plate at the momentverbtrto coat a surface, usually metal with a thin layer of other metal by electrolysis, chemical reaction, etcto cover with metal plates, as for protectionprinting to make a stereotype or electrotype from type or another plateto form metal into plate, esp by rollingto give a glossy finish to paper by calenderingto grow microorganisms in a culture mediumOrigin of plate1C13 from Old French thin metal sheet, something flat, from Vulgar Latin plattus unattested; related to Greek platus flatSee also plate upBritish Dictionary definitions for Plate 2 of 2nounRiver Plate the English name for the Río de la PlataCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Scientific definitions for plateNounA thin, flat sheet of metal or other material, especially one used as an electrode in a storage battery or capacitor, or as the anode of an electron plate tectonics, one of the sections of the Earth's lithosphere crust and upper mantle that is in constant motion along with other sections. It is the interaction of the plates that causes mountains, volcanos, and other land features to form and that causes earthquakes to occur. Six major plates and numerous smaller ones are recognized. See more at tectonic coat or cover with a thin layer of American Heritage Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights Idioms and Phrases with platesee hand to on a silver platter serve up on a plate; have a lot on one's American Heritage Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.