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A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
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(uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
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The contents of such a dish.
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A course at a meal.
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(figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
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A flat object of uniform thickness.
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(especially Australia; metonymic, plural only) Vehicle license plates, registration plates.
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A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
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(historical) Plate armor.
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A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
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A material covered with such a layer.
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(dated) An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated.
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(weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
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(printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
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(printing, photography) An image or copy.
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(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.
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(dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
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(construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
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(Cockney rhyming slang) A person's foot.
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(baseball) Home plate.
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(geology) A tectonic plate.
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(herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
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(engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
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(engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
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A prize given to the winner in a contest.
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(chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
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(aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
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(aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
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(Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
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One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
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A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
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(furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
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(hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
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(music) A record, usually vinyl.
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(military) trauma plate.
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(slang, seduction community) Any of the potential romantic or sexual partners with whom a person keeps in touch as part of plate spinning.
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(Lego building) A Lego piece that is thin, 1/3 the height of a brick, and has studs on top.