Plate

Plate

Plate may refer to:
* Plate (dishware)
* Plate (structures), a type of foundation
* A flat piece of metal used in orthopedics to connect the two parts of a broken bone, such as a dynamic compression plate
* Plate armor, body armor made of metal plates
* Plate electrode, part of a vacuum tube
* Home plate, a piece of equipment in baseball
* Photographic plate, a type of film
* Printing plate, in lithography
** A lithograph bound into a book, especially when the book is otherwise letterpress printed
* River Plate, a river in Uruguay and Argentina
* Steel plate, sheet metal in a thicker form
* Tectonic plate, in geology
* Vehicle registration plate
* A sub-class of Culture GSV
* Theoretical plate in separation processes
* Appendages of dinosaurs of the infraorders Stegosauria and Ankylosauria

* Roundel argent, in British heraldry
* Sterling silver cutlery and dishware
* Plating
* Wall plate - horizontal structural elements at the top and bottom of a wall in platform framing building construction methodology.
** Wall plates are variously described as prefaced by the words: Sill, top, bottom, ceiling, floor, or base.

* Tourelle de la Plate, a lighthouse in France,
* Club Atlético River Plate, an Argentine football club based in Buenos Aires
* Christina Plate (1965-), German actress
* Plate, Germany, a municipality in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
* Weightlifting slang for a 45lbs. or 20 kg. weight used on a barbell.


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  • plate — [ plat ] n. f. • 1170; de 1. plat 1 ♦ Archéol. Plaque de métal appliquée sur le haubert; chacune des plaques qui constituent une armure rigide. Armures de plates, d écailles d acier. 2 ♦ (1694) Mar. Embarcation à fond plat servant aux travaux de… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Plate — Plate, n. [OF. plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. plat flat, Gr. ?. See {Place}, n.] 1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • plate — 1. (pla t ) s. f. 1°   Coutel à plates, ancien nom d une épée fine et tranchante, un peu plus longue que la dague ordinaire.    Armure à plates, nom donné dans le XIVe siècle aux armures composées de plaques d acier, par opposition aux cottes de… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • plate — [plāt] n. [OFr, flat object < fem. of plat, flat < VL * plattus < Gr platys, broad, flat: see PLATY ] 1. a smooth, flat, relatively thin piece of metal or other material 2. a sheet of metal made by beating, rolling, or casting 3. a) any… …   English World dictionary

  • plate — (n.) mid 13c., flat sheet of gold or silver, also flat, round coin, from O.Fr. plate thin piece of metal (late 12c.), from M.L. plata plate, piece of metal, perhaps via V.L. *plattus from Gk. platys flat, broad (see PLACE (Cf. place) (n.)). The… …   Etymology dictionary

  • plate — ► NOUN 1) a flat dish from which food is eaten or served. 2) bowls, cups, and other utensils made of gold or silver. 3) a thin, flat piece of metal used to join or strengthen or forming part of a machine. 4) a small, flat piece of metal bearing a …   English terms dictionary

  • Plate — Plate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plating}.] 1. To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping. [1913 Webster] 2. To cover or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • plate — [n1] dish or meal served bowl, casserole, course, helping, platter, portion, service, serving, trencher; concepts 459,493 plate [n2] sheet, panel coat, disc, flake, foil, lamella, lamina, layer, leaf, plane, print, scale, slab, slice, spangle,… …   New thesaurus

  • Plate — Plate. См. Пластина. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) …   Словарь металлургических терминов

  • Plate [1] — Plate, kleines Küstenfahrzeug mit plattem Boden …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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