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plate

English

🔊 dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
🔊 a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
🔊 a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
🔊 a shallow receptacle for collection in church
🔊 structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
🔊 a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
🔊 a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
🔊 the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
🔊 any flat platelike body structure or part
🔊 a main course served on a plate
“a vegetable plate”
🔊 the thin under portion of the forequarter
🔊 a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
🔊 the quantity contained in a plate
🔊 a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
🔊 (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands
“he ruled that the runner failed to touch home”
🔊 coat with a layer of metal
“plate spoons with silver”