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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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strand
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /st?ænd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /st?ænd/, [st???nd]
- Rhymes: -ænd
Etymology 1
From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand (“strand, sea-shore, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *strand? (“edge, rim, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- (“strand, border, field”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“to broaden, spread out”). Cognate with West Frisian strân, Dutch strand, German Strand, Danish strand, Swedish strand, Norwegian Bokmål strand.
Noun
strand (plural strands)
- The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
- (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
- A small brook or rivulet.
- (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
- A street (perhaps from the similarity of shape).
Alternative forms
- strond (obsolete)
Translations
Verb
strand (third-person singular simple present strands, present participle stranding, simple past and past participle stranded)
- (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
- (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
- Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.
Synonyms
- (run aground): beach
- (leave someone in a difficult situation): abandon, desert
Translations
Etymology 2
Origin uncertain. Cognate with Scots stran, strawn, strand (“strand”). Perhaps the same as strand ("rivulet, stream, gutter"; see Etymology 1 above); or from Middle English *stran, from Old French estran (“a rope, cord”), from Middle High German stren, strene (“skein, strand”), from Old High German streno, from Proto-West Germanic *stren?, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (“strip, strand”), from Proto-Indo-European *str?y-, *ster- (“strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row”); related to Dutch streen (“skein, hank of thread, strand, string”), German Strähne (“skein, hank of thread, strand of hair”).
Noun
strand (plural strands)
- Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
- A string.
- An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
- strand of spaghetti
- strand of hair.
- (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
- (figuratively) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
- strand of truth
- 2004, David Wray, Literacy: Major Themes in Education, Taylor & Francis ?ISBN, page 78
- She responds to both questions in writing and checks her answer on the fact question. Her suspicions confirmed about the importance of the two names, Miranda vows to pay close attention to this strand of the story as she continues to read.
- (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:string
Derived terms
- do the strand
Translations
Note: many languages have particular words for “a strand of <substance>” that are different for each substance. The translations below refer to strands in general. You might find a more appropriate translation under the word for the substance itself.
Verb
strand (third-person singular simple present strands, present participle stranding, simple past and past participle stranded)
- (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
- (transitive) To form by uniting strands.
Anagrams
- Arndts, drants
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch strand, from Middle Dutch strant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /strant/
Noun
strand (plural strande, diminutive strandjie)
- beach
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse str?nd.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stran/, [sd???n?]
Noun
strand c (singular definite stranden, plural indefinite strande)
- beach
- shore, seashore
- seaside
Inflection
Derived terms
Verb
strand
- imperative of strande
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /str?nt/
- Hyphenation: strand
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch strant. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
strand n (plural stranden, diminutive strandje n)
- beach, strand
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: strand
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
strand
- first-person singular present indicative of stranden
- imperative of stranden
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Strand.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??tr?nd]
- Rhymes: -?nd
Noun
strand (plural strandok)
- beach (a sandy shore of a body of water used for summertime leisure, swimming, suntanning)
- pool, swimming pool (an urban open-air facility with lawns, trees and several artificially constructed pools, used for summertime leisure)
Declension
Derived terms
- strandol
- strandos
(Compound words):
- strandcip?
- strandpapucs
- strandtáska
References
Further reading
- strand in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Icelandic
Etymology
From stranda (“to run aground”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /strant/
- Rhymes: -ant
Noun
strand n (genitive singular strands, nominative plural strönd)
- running aground, stranding
Declension
Middle English
Alternative forms
- strande
- stround, stronde, strond
Etymology
From Old English strand.
Noun
strand (plural strandes)
- (chiefly Northern) beach, shoreline
Descendants
- English: strand
- Scots: strand
- Yola: sthroane
References
- “str??nd(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse str?nd
Noun
strand f or m (definite singular stranda or stranden, indefinite plural strender, definite plural strendene)
- a beach or shore
Derived terms
- nakenstrand
- sandstrand
- strande
- strandlinje
Etymology 2
Verb
strand
- imperative of strande
References
- “strand” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse str?nd. Akin to English strand.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /str?nd/, /str?n?/
Noun
strand f (definite singular stranda, indefinite plural strender, definite plural strendene)
- a beach or shore
Derived terms
- nakenstrand
- sandstrand
- strande
- strandlinje
References
- “strand” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *strand?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /str?nd/
Noun
strand n
- beach
- shore
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: strand, strande
- English: strand
- Scots: strand
- Yola: sthroane
- ? Old French: estrande, estran
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *strand? (“edge; shore”).
Noun
strand n
- beach
Descendants
- Middle Low German: strand, strant m
- Plautdietsch: Straunt
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish strand, from Old Norse str?nd, from Proto-Germanic *strand?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt-.
Pronunciation
Noun
strand c
- beach (not necessarily sandy)
- shore
Declension
Related terms
References
- strand in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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