Definitions from Wiktionary ( )

▸ noun:  A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
▸ noun:  The contents of such a dish.
▸ noun:  A course at a meal.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
▸ noun:  A flat object of uniform thickness.
▸ noun:  (especially Australia; metonymically, plural only) Vehicle license plates, registration plates.
▸ noun:  A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
▸ noun:  (historical) Plate armor.
▸ noun:  A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
▸ noun:  A material covered with such a layer.
▸ noun:  (dated) An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.
▸ noun:  (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
▸ noun:  (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
▸ noun:  (printing, photography) An image or copy.
▸ noun:  (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
▸ noun:  (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
▸ noun:  (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
▸ noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) A person's foot.
▸ noun:  (baseball) Home plate.
▸ noun:  (geology) A tectonic plate.
▸ noun:  (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
▸ noun:  (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
▸ noun:  (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
▸ noun:  A prize given to the winner in a contest.
▸ noun:  (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
▸ noun:  (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
▸ noun:  (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
▸ noun:  (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
▸ noun:  One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
▸ noun:  A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
▸ noun:  (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
▸ noun:  (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
▸ noun:  (music) A record, usually vinyl.
▸ noun:  (military) trauma plate.
▸ noun:  (slang, seduction community) Any of the potential romantic or sexual partners with whom a person keeps in touch as part of plate spinning.
▸ verb:  To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
▸ verb:  (cooking, photography) To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
▸ verb:  (baseball) To score a run.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To arm or defend with metal plates.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To beat into thin plates.
▸ verb:  (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
▸ verb:  (philately) to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
▸ verb:  (philately, particularly with early British stamps) To identify the printing plate used.
▸ noun:  Precious metal, especially silver.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes.
▸ noun:  (heraldry) A roundel of silver or argent.
▸ noun:  The River Plate.

---

▸ Word origin

▸ Words similar to plate
▸ Usage examples for plate

▸ Idioms related to plate
▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing plate
▸ Words that often appear near plate
▸ Rhymes of plate

▸ Invented words related to plate