Definitions for: Plate


[n] the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws; "a catcher needs a lot of protective equipment"; "he plays behind the plate"
[n] a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
[n] (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"
[n] dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
[n] a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
[n] a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
[n] a shallow receptacle for collection in church
[n] structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
[n] a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
[n] a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
[n] the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
[n] any flat platelike body structure or part
[n] a main course served on a plate; "a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special"
[n] the thin under portion of the forequarter
[n] a rigid layer of the lithosphere that is believed to drift slowly
[n] the quantity contained in a plate
[v] coat with a layer of metal



Webster (1913) Definition: 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 with the other dimensions; a
thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.

2. Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.

Mangled . . . through plate and mail. --Milton.

3. Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups,
etc., wrought in gold or silver.

4. Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that
which is genuine silver or gold.

5. A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or
wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is
eaten at table.

6. [Cf. Sp. plata silver.] A piece of money, usually silver
money. [Obs.] ``Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd
from his pocket.'' --Shak.

7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the
purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the
engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a
fashion plate.

8. A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for
printing from; as, publisher's plates.

9. That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the
mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold,
platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc.

10. (Arch.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon
corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends
of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof
plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in
simple work, the feet of the rafters.

11. (Her.) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.

12. (Photog.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with
a coating that is sensitive to light.

13. A prize giving to the winner in a contest.

Note: Plate is sometimes used in an adjectival sense or in
combination, the phrase or compound being in most cases
of obvious signification; as, plate basket or
plate-basket, plate rack or plate-rack.

Home plate. (Baseball) See Home base, under Home.

Plate armor.
(a) See Plate, n., 2.
(b) Strong metal plates for protecting war vessels,
fortifications, and the like.

Plate bone, the shoulder blade, or scapula.

Plate girder, a girder, the web of which is formed of a
single vertical plate, or of a series of such plates
riveted together.

Plate glass. See under Glass.

Plate iron, wrought iron plates.

Plate layer, a workman who lays down the rails of a railway
and fixes them to the sleepers or ties.

Plate mark, a special mark or emblematic figure stamped
upon gold or silver plate, to indicate the place of
manufacture, the degree of purity, and the like; thus, the
local mark for London is a lion.

Plate paper, a heavy spongy paper, for printing from
engraved plates. --Fairholt.

Plate press, a press with a flat carriage and a roller, --
used for printing from engraved steel or copper plates.

Plate printer, one who prints from engraved plates.

Plate printing, the act or process of printing from an
engraved plate or plates.

Plate tracery. (Arch.) See under Tracery.

Plate wheel (Mech.), a wheel, the rim and hub of which are
connected by a continuous plate of metal, instead of by
arms or spokes.


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.

2. To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with
metal for defense.

Thus plated in habiliments of war. --Shak.

3. To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.

4. To beat into thin, flat pieces, or lamin[ae].

5. To calender; as, to plate paper.

Synonyms: catcher, collection plate, dental plate, denture, home, home plate, photographic plate, plateful, scale, shell

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