a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.

the contents of such a dish; plateful.

an entire course of a meal served on such a dish

I had the vegetable plate for lunch.

the food and service for one person, as at a banquet, fund-raising dinner, or the like

The wedding breakfast cost

household dishes, utensils, etc., of metal plated with gold or silver.

household dishes, utensils, etc., made of gold or silver.

a dish, as of metal or wood, used for collecting offerings, as in a church.

a thin, flat sheet or piece of metal or other material, esp. of uniform thickness.

metal in such sheets.

a flat, polished piece of metal on which something may be or is engraved.

license plate.

a flat or curved sheet of metal, plastic, glass, or similar hard material, on which a picture or text has been engraved, etched, molded, photographically developed, or drawn, that is inked, as in a press, for printing impressions on other surfaces.

a printed impression from such a piece or from some similar piece, as a woodcut.

a full-page illustration in a book, esp. an insert on paper different from the text pages.

a piece of armor made from a thin, flat piece or several such pieces of tough material, esp. wrought iron or steel.

armor composed of thin, flat pieces; plate armor.

Dentistry .

the part of a denture that conforms to the mouth and contains the teeth.

the entire denture.

Baseball .

the plate. home plate.

rubber 1 ( def. 14 ) .

plate glass.

Photography . a sheet of glass, metal, etc., coated with a sensitized emulsion, used for taking a photograph.

Anatomy, Zoology . a platelike part, structure, or organ.

a thin piece or cut of beef from the lower end of the ribs.

Geology . crustal plate.

Electronics . one of the interior elements of a vacuum tube, toward which electrons are attracted by virtue of its positive charge; anode. Abbreviation

P

Carpentry . any of various horizontal timbers or boards laid flat across the heads of studding, upon floors, etc., to support joists, rafters, or studs at or near their ends.

a gold or silver cup or the like awarded as the prize in a horse race or some other contest.

a horse race or some other contest for such a prize.

Heraldry . a rounded argent.

to coat (metal) with a thin film of gold, silver, nickel, etc., by mechanical or chemical means.

to cover or overlay with metal plates for protection.

Metalworking .

to forge (a bloom or the like) into a broad piece.

to hammer (cutlery) gently to produce an even surface.

Printing . to make a stereotype or electrotype plate from (type).

Papermaking . to give a high gloss to (paper), as on supercalendered paper. ?

have on one's plate, Informal . to have as an immediate task, obligation

or prospect

I had too much on my plate already to take on another task.

noun

bowl , casserole , course , helping , platter , portion , service , serving , trenchernotes:dish is a more general term and plate is more specialized , coat , disc , flake , foil , lamella , lamina , layer , leaf , plane , print , scale , slab , slice , spangle , stratumnotes:dish is a more general term and plate is more specialized

verb

anodize , bronze , chrome , cover , electroplate , enamel , encrust , face , flake , foil , gild , laminate , layer , nickel , overlay , platinize , scale , silver , stratifynotes:dish is a more general term and plate is more specialized , armor , base , coat , denture , disc , dish , disk , lamina , pane , panel , paten , saucer