| Plate |
n. |
A small five-sided area (enveloping a diamond-shaped area one foot square) beside which the batter stands and which must be touched by some part of a player on completing a run;
called also home base, or home plate. |
| Plate |
n. |
One of the thin parts of the bricket of an animal. |
| Plate |
n. |
A very light steel racing horsehoe. |
| Plate |
n. |
Loosely, a sporting contest for a prize; specif., in horse racing, a race for a prize, the contestants not making a stake. |
| Plate |
n. |
Skins for fur linings of garments, sewed together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted. |
| Plate |
n. |
The fine nap (as of beaver, hare's wool, musquash, nutria, or English black wool) on a hat the body of which is of an inferior substance. |
| Plate |
n. |
A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate. |
| Plate |
n. |
Metallic armor composed of broad pieces. |
| Plate |
n. |
Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver. |
| Plate |
n. |
Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold. |
| Plate |
n. |
A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table. |
| Plate |
n. |
A piece of money, usually silver money. |
| Plate |
n. |
A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate. |
| Plate |
n. |
A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates. |
| Plate |
n. |
That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc. |
| Plate |
n. |
A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters. |
| Plate |
n. |
A roundel of silver or tinctured argent. |
| Plate |
n. |
A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light. |
| Plate |
n. |
A prize giving to the winner in a contest. |
| Plate |
v. t. |
To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping. |
| Plate |
v. t. |
To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense. |
| Plate |
v. t. |
To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness. |
| Plate |
v. t. |
To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae. |
| Plate |
v. t. |
To calender; as, to plate paper. |
| Plate-gilled |
a. |
Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks. |
| Plateau |
n. |
A flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevated area of land; a table-land. |
| Plateau |
n. |
An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver. |
| Plateaus |
pl. |
of Plateau |
| Plateaux |
pl. |
of Plateau |
| Plated |
imp. & p. p. |
of Plate |
| Plateful |
n. |
Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold. |
| Platefuls |
pl. |
of Plateful |
| Platel |
n. |
A small dish. |
| Platen |
n. |
The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. |
| Platen |
n. |
Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. |
| Platen |
n. |
The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool;
also called table. |
| Plater |
n. |
A horse that runs chiefly in plate, esp. selling-plate, races; hence, an inferior race horse. |
| Plater |
n. |
One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater. |
| Plater |
n. |
A machine for calendering paper. |
| Plateresque |
a. |
Resembling silver plate;
said of certain architectural ornaments. |
| Platetrope |
n. |
One of a pair of a paired organs. |
