plate
41plate*/*/*/ — [pleɪt] noun 1) [C] a flat round dish that you put food on 2) [C] the amount of food that a plate will hold a plate of sandwiches[/ex] 3) [C] a small piece of metal or plastic that is fixed to something and used for showing information such as… …
42plate — 1. noun /pleɪt/ a) A dish from which food is served or eaten. I filled my plate from the bountiful table. b) The contents of such a dish. I ate a plate of beans. 2 …
43plate — [13] Etymologically, a plate is something ‘flat’. It comes from Vulgar Latin *plattus ‘flat’, which may go back to Greek platús ‘broad’ (source of English place, plane the tree, and platypus). It reached English via two separate Old French words …
44plate up — /pleɪt ˈʌp/ (say playt up) verb (t) 1. to arrange (food) on an individual plate or plates for serving: to plate up the main course. –verb (i) 2. to arrange food on an individual plate or plates for serving: to plate up for thirty people …
45plate — [13] Etymologically, a plate is something ‘flat’. It comes from Vulgar Latin *plattus ‘flat’, which may go back to Greek platús ‘broad’ (source of English place, plane the tree, and platypus). It reached English via two separate Old French words …
46plate n — A man went to his dentist because he feels something wrong in his mouth. The dentist examines him and says, That new upper plate I put in four you six months ago is eroding. What have you been eating? The man replies, All I can think of is that… …
47plate — 1. noun 1) a dinner plate Syn: dish, platter, salver, paten, charger; historical trencher 2) a plate of spaghetti Syn: plateful, helping, portion, serving 3) steel plates …
48plate — 1. noun 1) a dinner plate Syn: dish, platter, salver; historical trencher; archaic charger 2) a plate of spaghetti Syn: plateful, helping, portion, serving 3) steel plates …
49plate — Pā, papa. ♦ Paper plate, pā pepa. ♦ Soup plate, pā hohonu. ♦ Wall plate and gable of a house, lohelau …
50plate — (Subclass Cirripedia): In barnacle, one of a number of calcareous elements on outer surface of body. Produced by mantle and with characteristic structure, shape, and sculpture. One generally distinguished five primary plates (single carina and… …
