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A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
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I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
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Such dishes collectively.
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The contents of such a dish.
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I ate a plate of beans.
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A course at a meal.
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The meat plate was particularly tasty.
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An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
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With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.
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A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
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A clutch usually has two plates.
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A vehicle license plate.
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He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
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A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
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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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The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull.
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A material covered with such a layer.
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If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.
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A decorative or food service item coated with silver or gold.
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The tea was served in the plate.
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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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An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
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We finished making the plates this morning.
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An image or copy.
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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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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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A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
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A foot, from "plates of meat".
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Sit down and give your plates a rest.
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Home plate.
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There was a close play at the plate.
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A tectonic plate.
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Plate armour.
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He was confronted by two knights in full plate.
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Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
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A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
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The anode of a vacuum tube.
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Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.
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Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes (from Spanish plata ("silver")).
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A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
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A prize given to the winner in a contest.
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Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
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(travel industry) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
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(travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
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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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A record, usually vinyl.