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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)

  1. A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
    I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
  2. (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
  3. The contents of such a dish.
    I ate a plate of beans.
  4. A course at a meal.
    The meat plate was particularly tasty.
  5. (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
    With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.
  6. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
    A clutch usually has two plates.
  7. A vehicle license plate.
    He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
  8. A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
  9. 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.
  10. A material covered with such a layer.
    If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.
  11. (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver or gold.
    The tea was served in the plate.
  12. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
  13. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
    We finished making the plates this morning.
  14. (printing, photography) An image or copy.
  15. (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.
  16. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
  17. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
  18. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
    Sit down and give your plates a rest.
  19. (baseball) Home plate.
    There was a close play at the plate.
  20. (geology) A tectonic plate.
  21. (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.
  22. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
  23. (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
  24. (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
    Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.
  25. (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.
  26. (heraldry) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
  27. A prize given to the winner in a contest.
  28. (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
  29. (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
  30. (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
  31. (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
  32. One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
  33. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
  34. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
  35. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
  36. (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)

  1. 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.
  2. To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
    After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.
  3. (baseball) To score a run.
    The single plated the runner from second base.
  4. (transitive) To arm or defend with metal plates.
  5. (transitive) To beat into thin plates.
  6. (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.
  7. (philately) to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
  8. (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)

  1. 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

  1. feminine singular of plat

Noun

plate f (plural plates)

  1. Very small flat boat.

Etymology 2

Adjective

plate (plural plates)

  1. (Canada, informal) Annoyingly boring.
  2. (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)

  1. plate
  2. table-leaf
  3. (music) record
  4. (music) disc
  5. (computing) board
  6. (computing) card
  7. (computing) printed circuit board
  8. (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)

  1. plate (thin, flat object)
  2. 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)

  1. plate (thin, flat object)
  2. 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)

  1. a flat metal disk
  2. a flat plate of armor

Descendants

  • ? Middle English: [Term?]
    • English: plate
      • ? Maori: pereti
      • ? Hindi: ????? (ple?)
    • Scots: 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)

  1. bowl

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

plate (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

  1. inflection of plata:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

plate (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

  1. third-person plural present of platiti

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platt

English

Etymology 1

From Early Modern English platte, a variation (probably dialectal) of plot (plot of land); see plat and plot for more.

Noun

platt (plural platts)

  1. Obsolete spelling of plat or plot (scheme, plan, design, map).
    • 1794 July 30, minutes of the Executive council of Georgia, published in Minutes of the Executive council, from January 14, 1778, to January 6, 1785 (1908), page 684:
      3rdly That it also be recommended to all persons concerned to have their platts passed through the Surveyor Generals Office, and, in all respects, ready for the grant, in case they shall be entitled to the same, by the said 10th of September.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:platt.

Etymology 2

From Middle English platten, whence also plait; see plat.

Noun

platt (plural platts)

  1. Obsolete spelling of plat (material made by interweaving, especially material made by interweaving straw, used to make hats).
    straw platt
    • c. 1750, a record, quoted in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1931):
      The versatility of his craftsmanship is likewise evidenced by the inventory which included "8½ Doz. Walking Sticks & Rodds" and "3½ Doz. Straw Hatts, some platt &c." His name appears in several account books of early Philadelphians, in 1751, []

German

Etymology

From northern Middle High German plat, blat and Middle Low German plat, from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus, probably from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús). Compare Dutch plat, French plat, Italian piatto, obsolete English plat. Also related to English flat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plat/
  • Rhymes: -at

Adjective

platt (comparative platter, superlative am plattesten)

  1. flat
  2. (of a building or structure; by extension also of immaterial things) completely destroyed, razed to the ground
  3. bromidic, banal
  4. (colloquial) very tired, exhausted
  5. (colloquial) astonished, dumbstruck

Declension

Synonyms

  • flach

Related terms

  • Platt
  • Plattfuß
  • Platter
  • Plattbauchspinne

Further reading

  • “platt” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle Low German plat, a borrowing from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?plat/

Adjective

platt

  1. flat
  2. flattened

Further reading

  • Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle Low German plat, a borrowing from Old French plat (whence French plat), from Vulgar Latin *plattus. Cognate with German platt, Dutch plat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pl?t/
  • Rhymes: -?t

Adjective

platt (masculine platten, neuter platt, comparative méi platt, superlative am plattsten)

  1. flat

Declension


Maltese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

platt m (plural platti)

  1. plate (dish)

Related terms

  • plattin

Swedish

Etymology

From German platt

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plat?/

Adjective

platt (comparative plattare, superlative plattast)

  1. flat

Declension

Related terms

  • platta
  • plattång
  • plattfisk
  • plattform
  • plattfot
  • plattpannkaka
  • plattysk

See also

  • flat
  • platå

Adverb

platt (comparative plattare, superlative plattast)

  1. entirely, absolutely, at all
    det är platt intet
    that is absolutely nothing, that is nothing at all

Noun

platt c

  1. a flat piece of ground

Declension

References

  • platt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

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