Plate  

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1. A dish from which food is served or eaten.

   I filled my plate from the bountiful table.

2. A course at a meal.

   The meat plate was particularly tasty.

3. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.

   A clutch usually has two plates.

4. A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
5. An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.

   We finished making the plates this morning.

6. An image or copy.

Plate may refer to:

• Plate (dishware), a broad, mainly flat vessel on which food is served
• Used in washing soap Washing your body
• Silver (household) or the plate, dishware and cutlery made of sterling, Britannia, or Sheffield plate silver
• Plating, the deposition of metallic layers

Science

• Plate electrode or plate, a type of electrode that formed part of a vacuum tube
• Plate, a physical approximation of a theoretical plate in separation processes
• Plate, an appendage of the Stegosauria
• Tectonic plate in geology
• Plate tectonics the movement of tectonic plates
• Petri plate
• Wilhelmy plate, used to measure equilibrium surface or interfacial tension at an air–liquid or liquid–liquid interface

Two-dimensional media

• Photographic plate, an image-capture medium
• Plate, an intaglio printing mechanism
• Plate, a printing mechanism in lithography
• Plate, a term in book design, meaning an image added on a separate page. This is derived from the lithographic use, where such images were printed separately then bound into the book in groups.

Other

• Plate (surname)
• Plate, Germany, a municipality in Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
• Plate (metal), rectangular metal stock that is more than 6 mm or 0.25 in thick
• To plate, to present food on a plate
• Plate, one of the forequarter cuts of beef
• Approach plate, in aviation
• Dynamic compression plate, a metallic plate used in orthopedics for internal fixation of bone
• L-plate, or learner plate, for a provisionally-licensed vehicle driver or motorcycle rider
• Face plate
• Folding plate, in a folding machine
• Home plate, in baseball
• Service Specific Front Plate
• Wall plate, vertical building-construction component
• Vehicle registration plate, or license plate

See also

• River Plate (disambiguation)
• Plate armour, body armor made of metal plates
• Plate camera, early photographic cameras that used plates
• Plate theory, a continuum mechanics theory to explain thin solids
• Tourelle de la Plate, a lighthouse in France