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plate
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: pl?t, IPA(key): /ple?t/, [p?l?e?t]
- Homophone: plait
- Rhymes: -e?t
Etymology 1
Middle English, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato.
Noun
plate (plural plates)
- A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
- I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
- (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
- The contents of such a dish.
- I ate a plate of beans.
- A course at a meal.
- The meat plate was particularly tasty.
- (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
- With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.
- A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
- A clutch usually has two plates.
- A vehicle license plate.
- He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
- A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
- A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
- The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull.
- A material covered with such a layer.
- If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.
- (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver or gold.
- The tea was served in the plate.
- (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
- (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
- We finished making the plates this morning.
- (printing, photography) An image or copy.
- (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.
- (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
- (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
- Sit down and give your plates a rest.
- (baseball) Home plate.
- There was a close play at the plate.
- (geology) A tectonic plate.
- (historical) Plate armour.
- He was confronted by two knights in full plate.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 5, p. 248,[1]
- He hewd, and lasht, and foynd, and thondred blowes,
- And euery way did seeke into his life,
- Ne plate, ne male could ward so mighty throwes,
- But yeilded passage to his cruell knife.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 6, lines 366-368,[2]
- Two potent Thrones, that to be less then Gods
- Disdain’d, but meaner thoughts learnd in thir flight,
- Mangl’d with gastly wounds through Plate and Maile.
- (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
- (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
- (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
- Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.
- (obsolete) Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes (from Spanish plata (“silver”)).
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2,[3]
- […] realms and islands were
- As plates dropp’d from his pocket.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2,[3]
- (heraldry) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
- A prize given to the winner in a contest.
- (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
- (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
- (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
- (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
- One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
- A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
- (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
- (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
- (music) A record, usually vinyl.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Maori: pereti
- ? Hindi: ????? (ple?)
Translations
Verb
plate (third-person singular simple present plates, present participle plating, simple past and past participle plated)
- To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
- This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.
- To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
- After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.
- (baseball) To score a run.
- The single plated the runner from second base.
- (transitive) To arm or defend with metal plates.
- (transitive) To beat into thin plates.
- (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
- Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.
- (philately) to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
- (philately) (particularly with early British stamps) to identify the printing plate used.
Derived terms
- chrome-plated
- chromium-plated
- electroplate
- nickel-plated
Translations
Etymology 2
Middle English, partly from Anglo-Norman plate (“plate, bullion”) and partly from Latin plata (“silver”), from Vulgar Latin *platta (“metal plate”), from feminine of Latin *plattus (“flat”).
Noun
plate (usually uncountable, plural plates)
- Precious metal, especially silver.
- At the northern extremity of this chill province the gold plate of the Groans, pranked across the shining black of the long table, smoulders as though it contains fire […]
Anagrams
- -petal, Patel, leapt, lepta, palet, pelta, petal, pleat, tepal
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plat/
Etymology 1
Adjective
plate
- feminine singular of plat
Noun
plate f (plural plates)
- Very small flat boat.
Etymology 2
Adjective
plate (plural plates)
- (Canada, informal) Annoyingly boring.
- (Canada, informal) Troublesome.
Anagrams
- palet, pelât, petal, leapt, pleat
Further reading
- “plate” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latvian
Noun
plate f (5th declension)
- plate
- table-leaf
- (music) record
- (music) disc
- (computing) board
- (computing) card
- (computing) printed circuit board
- (computing) circuit board
Declension
Synonyms
- d?lis
- pl?ksne
- pl?tne
- (computing) druk?t?s sh?mas plate
- (computing) sh?mas plate
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse plata, from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “broad, flat, wide”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pla?.te/, [?pla?.t?]
Noun
plate f or m (definite singular plata or platen, indefinite plural plater, definite plural platene)
- plate (thin, flat object)
- record (vinyl disc)
Synonyms
- (flat object): skive
Derived terms
- kokeplate
- plateselskap
References
“plate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse plata, from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “broad, flat, wide”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²pl??t?/
Noun
plate f (definite singular plata, indefinite plural plater, definite plural platene)
- plate (thin, flat object)
- record (vinyl disc)
Synonyms
- (flat object): skive
Derived terms
- kokeplate
- plateselskap
References
“plate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Alternative forms
- platte
Etymology
From Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus.
Noun
plate f (oblique plural plates, nominative singular plate, nominative plural plates)
- a flat metal disk
- a flat plate of armor
Descendants
- ? Middle English: [Term?]
- English: plate
- ? Maori: pereti
- ? Hindi: ????? (ple?)
- Scots: plate
- English: plate
- ? Irish: pláta
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (plate)
Scots
Etymology
Middle English, from Old French plate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plet/, or sometimes IPA(key): /pl?t/ in the Borders
Noun
plate (plural plates)
- bowl
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
plate (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- inflection of plata:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Verb
plate (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- third-person plural present of platiti
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coat
English
Alternative forms
- cote (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English cote, coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kutt? (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ewd-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”).
Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo (“woolen coat”) (German Kotze (“coarse woolen blanket; woolen cape”)), Middle Low German kot (“coat”), Ancient Greek ?????? (beûdos, “woman's attire”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ko?t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??t/
- Rhymes: -??t
Noun
coat (countable and uncountable, plural coats)
- (countable) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.Wp
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- (countable) A covering of material, such as paint.Wp
- (countable) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.Wp
- (uncountable, nautical) Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather).
- (obsolete) A petticoat.
- a child in coats
- The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
- 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn
- Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Compaint
- She was sought by spirits of richest coat.
- 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn
- A coat of arms.Wp
- A coat card.
- 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law
- Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.
- 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: koto
Translations
Verb
coat (third-person singular simple present coats, present participle coating, simple past and past participle coated)
- (transitive) To cover with a coating of some material.
- (transitive) To cover like a coat.
- (transitive, archaic) To clothe.
Translations
Anagrams
- ATOC, CATO, Cato, Cota, TACO, octa, octa-, taco
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