plate

plate
plate1 W2S2 [pleıt] n
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1¦(food)¦
2¦(sign)¦
3 have a lot/enough on your plate
4¦(protective covering)¦
5¦(earth's surface)¦
6¦(gold/silver)¦
7 hand/give/offer somebody something on a plate
8¦(pictures/photos)¦
9¦(baseball)¦
10¦(competition)¦
11¦(teeth)¦
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[Sense: 1,3,7; Date: 1400-1500; : French; Origin: plat 'plate, dish', from plat 'flat', from Vulgar Latin plattus, probably from Greek platys 'broad, flat']
[Sense: 2, 4-5,8-11; Date: 1200-1300; : Old French; Origin: plat 'flat']
[Sense: 6; Date: 1300-1400; Origin: Partly from Old French plat 'plate, piece of silver', partly from Old Spanish plata 'silver']
1.) ¦(FOOD)¦
a) a flat and usually round dish that you eat from or serve food on
▪ The plates were piled high with rice.
▪ a dinner plate
b) also plateful
the amount of food that is on a plate
plate of
▪ He's eaten a whole plate of french fries.
2.) ¦(SIGN)¦
a flat piece of metal with words or numbers on it, for example on a door or a car
▪ The brass plate on the door said 'Dr Rackman'.
number/license/registration plate
(=on a car)
▪ Did anyone see the car's license plate?
→↑L-plate, ↑nameplate
3.) have a lot/enough on your plate informal
to have a lot of problems to deal with or problems to worry about
4.) ¦(PROTECTIVE COVERING)¦
a) technical one of the thin sheets of bone, horn etc that covers and protects the outside of some animals
b) a thin sheet of metal used to protect something
metal/steel/iron plates
▪ The shoes had metal plates attached to the heels.
5.) ¦(EARTH'S SURFACE)¦ technical
one of the very large sheets of rock that form the surface of the Earth
6.) ¦(GOLD/SILVER)¦
a) gold/silver plate
ordinary metal with a thin covering of gold or silver
b) [U]
things such as plates, cups, forks, or knives made of gold or silver
7.) hand/give/offer sb sth on a plate
to let someone get or achieve something easily, without much effort from them
▪ I worked hard for what I've got. It wasn't handed to me on a plate.
8.) ¦(PICTURES/PHOTOS)¦
a) a sheet of metal that has been cut or treated in a special way so that words or pictures can be printed from its surface
▪ copper printing plates
b) a picture in a book, printed on good-quality paper and usually coloured
c) a thin sheet of glass used especially in the past in photography, with chemicals on it that are sensitive to light
9.) ¦(BASEBALL)¦ [C usually singular]
the place where the person hitting the ball stands
10.)¦(COMPETITION)¦
the ... Plate
used in the names of sports competitions or races in which the winner gets a silver plate
▪ This horse won the Galway Plate.
11.) ¦(TEETH)¦
a) a thin piece of plastic shaped to fit inside a person's mouth, into which ↑false teeth are fixed
b) BrE a thin piece of plastic with wires fixed to it, that some people wear in their mouth to make their teeth straight
British Equivalent: brace
→↑hotplate
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HINT sense 1
Do not use plate when you mean 'food cooked in a particular way as a meal'. Use dish : a restaurant where you can eat the most delicious dishes (NOT plates) you can imagine
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plate 2
plate2 v [T]
be plated with sth
a) to be covered with a thin covering of gold or silver
▪ a beautiful necklace, plated with 22 carat gold
gold-plated/silver-plated
▪ a gold-plated watch
b) to be covered in sheets of a hard material such as metal
▪ The ship had been heavily plated with protective sheets.

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