plate

Noun

• a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth

• a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

• a shallow receptacle for collection in church

• structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage

• a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded

• the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube

• any flat platelike body structure or part

• a main course served on a plate
  • a vegetable plate
    
  • the blue plate special
    

• the thin under portion of the forequarter

• a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly

• the quantity contained in a plate

• dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten

• a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)

• a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic

• (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
    

Verb

• coat with a layer of metal
  • plate spoons with silver
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  denture , dental plate , scale , shell , collection plate , photographic plate , crustal plate , plateful , home plate , home base , home