Usually means: Flat objects used for eating.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. plates: Merriam-Webster
  2. plates: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plates: Collins English Dictionary
  4. plates: Vocabulary.com
  5. Plate's, Plates, plate's, plates: Wordnik
  6. plates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. plates: Wiktionary
  8. plates: Dictionary.com
  9. plates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Plates: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. plates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plates: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. plates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. plates: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. plates: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Plates: Glossary of Earthquake and Related Terminology
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. plates (of meat): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. plates: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Plates: Body Building

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Plate)

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.
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