Plates

What do we mean by plates?

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 plates:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word plates:
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Words that rhyme with plates:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe plates:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective plates:
xiv, send, xxiv, xxxiv, section, xxv, xxxv, xliv, description, ais, packages, figure.

Consonant match to plates:
plotz, plots, plaits, pleats, plats, platz, plights, platts, plautz, pletz, ploetz, plotts.

Words that sound like plates:
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