Usually means: Flat surface for serving food.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. plate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. plate, plate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. plate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. plate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Plate, plate: Wordnik
  7. plate, the plate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Plate, plate: Wiktionary
  9. plate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. plate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. plate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. plate, the plate: Dictionary.com
  13. plate (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. plate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Plate (anatomy), Plate (animal anatomy), Plate (dishware), Plate (metal), Plate (structure), Plate (structures), Plate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Plate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. plate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. plate: Rhymezone
  19. plate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. plate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Plate: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. plate: Free Dictionary
  23. plate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. plate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. plate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. plate: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Paris Cookbook (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com French Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Plate (disambiguation), plate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Plate (disambiguation), plate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. plate: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Plate: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  5. plate: Natural History Terms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. plate, plate, plate, plate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. plate: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. plate: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Plate: Sports Definitions

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. plate: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)
  5. Plate: Construction Glossary
  6. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  7. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  8. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
noun:  (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
noun:  The contents of such a dish.
noun:  A course at a meal.
noun:  (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
noun:  A flat object of uniform thickness.
noun:  (especially Australia; metonymically, plural only) Vehicle license plates, registration plates.
noun:  A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
noun:  (historical) Plate armor.
noun:  A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
noun:  A material covered with such a layer.
noun:  (dated) An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.
noun:  (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
noun:  (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
noun:  (printing, photography) An image or copy.
noun:  (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
noun:  (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
noun:  (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) A person's foot.
noun:  (baseball) Home plate.
noun:  (geology) A tectonic plate.
noun:  (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
noun:  (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
noun:  (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
noun:  A prize given to the winner in a contest.
noun:  (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
noun:  (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
noun:  (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
noun:  (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
noun:  One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
noun:  A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
noun:  (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
noun:  (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
noun:  (music) A record, usually vinyl.
noun:  (military) trauma plate.
noun:  (slang, seduction community) Any of the potential romantic or sexual partners with whom a person keeps in touch as part of plate spinning.
verb:  To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
verb:  (cooking, photography) To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
verb:  (baseball) To score a run.
verb:  (transitive) To arm or defend with metal plates.
verb:  (transitive) To beat into thin plates.
verb:  (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
verb:  (philately) to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
verb:  (philately, particularly with early British stamps) To identify the printing plate used.
noun:  Precious metal, especially silver.
noun:  (obsolete) Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes.
noun:  (heraldry) A roundel of silver or argent.
noun:  The River Plate.

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