Plate

What do we mean by plate?

A smooth, flat, relatively thin, rigid body of uniform thickness. noun

A sheet of hammered, rolled, or cast metal. noun

A very thin applied or deposited coat of metal. noun

A flat piece of metal forming part of a machine. noun

A flat piece of metal on which something is engraved. noun

A license plate. noun

A thin piece of metal used for armor. noun

Armor made of such pieces. noun

A sheet of metal, plastic, rubber, paperboard, or other material prepared for use as a printing surface, such as an electrotype or a stereotype. noun

A print of a woodcut, lithograph, or other engraved material, especially when reproduced in a book. noun

A full-page book illustration, often in color and printed on paper different from that used for text pages. noun

A light-sensitive sheet of glass or metal on which a photographic image can be recorded. noun

A thin metallic or plastic support fitted to the gums to anchor artificial teeth. noun

In wood-frame construction, a horizontal member, capping the exterior wall studs, upon which the roof rafters rest. noun

Home plate. noun

A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.

Such dishes collectively.

The contents of such a dish.

A course at a meal.

An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities

A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.

A vehicle license plate.

A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.

A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating

A material covered with such a layer.

A decorative or food service item coated with silver or gold.

A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.

An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.

An image or copy.

An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.

A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.

A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.

A foot, from "plates of meat".

Home plate.

A tectonic plate.

Plate armour.

Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.

A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.

The anode of a vacuum tube.

Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes (from Spanish plata ("silver")).

A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.

A prize given to the winner in a contest.

Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.

(travel industry) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.

(travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.

A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.

One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.

A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.

(furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.

(hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.

A record, usually vinyl.

Words that are spelled similarly to plate:
plate, place, plane, slate, late, palate, pate, elate, plete, prate, plat, plato, blate, alate, pilate, plage, plata, platte, platt, platy, plae, plath, plats, platz, playte, plante, clate, plote, plase, flate, plute, platn, plake, plaie, nplate, plame.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word plate:
tectonics, subduction, tectonic, girder, hotspot, umpire, plates, eurasian, crust, trench, oceanic, volcanoes, armour, fault, mantle, catcher, thickness, volcanic, neural, beneath, collision, boundary, inning, copa, armor, earthquake, glass, stakes, batting, spreading, arc, voltage, inscription, tube, appearances, continental, sheet, hitting, thick, printing, boundaries, registration, zone, pitch, pitcher, bearing, inches, steel, philippine, vehicle, belt, bottom, ridge, bone, bases, argentina, attached, triple, copper, margin, rear, license, shield, flat.

Words that rhyme with plate:
state, rate, date, advocate, appropriate, appreciate, mitigate, great, propagate, facilitate, accommodate, articulate, elaborate, vacillate, mandate, estate, conflate, weight, abrogate, anticipate, repudiate, emulate, intimate, ameliorate, separate, alleviate, predicate, innate, obviate, exacerbate, associate, deliberate, obfuscate, abate, mate, gate, disseminate, consummate, slate, indicate, emanate, create, elucidate, contemplate, adequate, trait, straight, resonate, delineate, initiate, incorporate, postulate, dedicate, estimate, integrate, assimilate, delegate, extrapolate, fate, reiterate, coordinate, precipitate, corroborate, collaborate, gait, manipulate, evaluate, desolate, late, designate, alternate, update, rait, collate, surrogate, abdicate, cultivate, procrastinate, freight, commiserate, consolidate, wait, moderate, arrogate, spate, relate, debate, demonstrate, deprecate, stipulate, inculcate, denigrate, celebrate, dissipate, graduate, exonerate, communicate, subordinate, negate, compensate.

Adjectives that are often used to describe plate:
flat, photographic, hot, thin, end, top, upper, cribriform, single, circular, lower, bottom, thick, parallel, positive, negative, empty, lateral, rectangular, vertical, well, cortical, perforated, inch, horizontal, sensitive, front, perpendicular, dry, wave, solid, anal, heavy, infinite, sole, clean, outer, equatorial, cold, orbital, porous, metallic, base, epiphyseal, bony, neural, colored, triangular, bed, polished, inner, round, crystal, porcelain, iron, oceanic, dorsal, wet, electric, shaped, median, blue, broad, double, plastic, medullary, curved, coloured, wooden, cartilaginous, anterior, golden, medial, fixed.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective plate:
iii, fig, vii, tectonics, viii, xii, xiv, xiii, xvi, glass, xvii, xix, xviii, xxi, xxiv, xxii, xxv, xxiii, xxvi, xxix, xxvii, xxx, xxviii, girders, xxxi, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxii, figure, xxxiii, xxxvi, figs, xxxix, xxxvii, xxxviii, voltage, girder, fleet, xlv, xliv, xli, cultures, counts, xlii, thickness, current, fixation, xliii, liv, xlvii, xlvi, xlix, xlviii, figures, estuary, resistance, sin, lii, lvi, motions, liii, lvii, tracery.

Consonant match to plate:
plot, plight, plait, pleat, platte, platt, playte, plaut, plott, plitt, plett.

Words that sound like plate:
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