PLATE

I. noun see: place Date: 14th century 1. a smooth flat thin piece of material, b. forged, rolled, or cast metal in sheets usually thicker than 1/4 inch (6 millimeters), a very thin layer of metal deposited on a surface of base metal by plating, one of the broad metal pieces used in armor, d. a thin relatively flat anatomical part (as a lamina of bone) of an animal body, the thin under portion of the forequarter of beef, home ~ , any of the large movable segments into which the earth's lithosphere is divided according to the theory of ~ tectonics, 2. \Middle English; partly from Anglo-French ~ ~, bullion; partly from Old Spanish plata silver, from Vulgar Latin *platta metal ~, from feminine of plattus flat] a silver coin, precious metal, 3. \Middle English, from Anglo-French plat, ~ dish, ~, from plat flat] domestic hollowware made of or ~d with gold, silver, or base metals, a shallow usually circular vessel from which food is eaten or served, c. a quantity to fill a ~ ; ~ful , a main course served on a ~, food and service supplied to one person , d. a prize given to the winner in a contest, a horse race in which the contestants compete for a prize of fixed value rather than stakes, a dish or pouch passed during collections, a flat glass or plastic dish used chiefly for culturing microorganisms, 4. a prepared surface from which printing is done, a sheet of material (as glass or plastic) coated with a light-sensitive photographic emulsion, a metallic grid with its interstices filled with active material that forms one of the structural units of a battery, license ~ , a horizontal structural member that provides bearing and anchorage especially for the trusses of a roof or the rafters, the part of a denture that fits to the mouth, a full-page illustration often on different paper from the text pages, a schedule of matters to deal with , ~like adjective II. transitive verb (~d; plating) Date: 14th century to cover or equip with ~: as, to provide with armor ~, to cover with an adherent layer mechanically, chemically, or electrically, to make a printing surface from or for, to fix or secure with a ~, to cause (as a runner) to score in baseball, to arrange (food) on a ~