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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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stratum
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin str?tum (“a spread for a bed, coverlet, quilt, blanket; a pillow, bolster; a bed”), neuter singular of str?tus, perfect passive participle of stern? (“spread”). Doublet of estrade.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st???t?m/, /?st?e?t?m/
Noun
stratum (plural stratums or strata)
- One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
- Synonym: tier
- (geology) A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout.
- Synonyms: bed, layer
- Coordinate term: seam
- Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers.
- (biology) A layer of tissue.
- A class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
- (ecology) A layer of vegetation, usually of similar height.
- (computing) The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network.
Related terms
- stratification
- stratify
- stratosphere
Translations
Further reading
- stratum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- stratum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- stratum in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch stratum, from Latin stratum. Doublet of setrat and strata.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?strat?m]
- Hyphenation: stra?tum
Noun
stratum (first-person possessive stratumku, second-person possessive stratummu, third-person possessive stratumnya)
- (geology) stratum, a layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout.
Related terms
Further reading
- “stratum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Etymology
From str?tus, perfect passive participle of stern? (“spread”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?stra?.tum/, [?s?(t?)?ä?t????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?stra.tum/, [?st????t?um]
Noun
str?tum n (genitive str?t?); second declension
- a bed-covering, coverlet, quilt, blanket
- a pillow, bolster
- a bed, couch
- a horse-blanket, saddle-cloth
- a pavement
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
Verb
str?tum
- accusative supine of stern?
References
- stratum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- stratum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- stratum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- stratum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
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