American English pronunciation
How to pronounce plates
IPA transcription: [p'leɪts]
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[p'leɪts]
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Noun
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(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”
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a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
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a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
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dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
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the quantity contained in a plate
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a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
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a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
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the thin under portion of the forequarter
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a main course served on a plate
“a vegetable plate”
“the blue plate special”
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any flat platelike body structure or part
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the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
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a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
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structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
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a shallow receptacle for collection in church
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a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
Verb
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make a plat of
“Plat the town”
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coat with a layer of metal
“plate spoons with silver”
Usage examples
- The toll bridges scan all license plates.
- This would expose photographic plates and cause fluorescence.
- Liquid sodium, beryllium oxide, cadmium, paraffin wax and steel plates were used for protection.
- At the time of the discovery, heaps of these broken plates were found.
- The starting blocks consist of two adjustable footplates attached to a rigid frame.
- This would expose photographic plates and cause fluorescence.
- I use templates in my text editor to quickly generate boilerplate syntax, such as the skeleton of a for loop.
- Body scales are relatively large, with wide, close-knit armoured plates on the back.
- The roof plates, relatively small, are supported by the chrome-clad, cruciform columns.
- Variable capacitors are considered of the highest quality when they have silver-plated plates.