Definition of plate

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Plate (n.) A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate..

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Tergum :: Tergum (n.) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.
Fish :: Fish (n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces..
Plate :: Plate (n.) A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table..
Cancelli :: Cancelli (v. t.) The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities..
Silver :: Silver (v. t.) To cover with silver; to give a silvery appearance to by applying a metal of a silvery color; as, to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury..
Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor..
Plate :: Plate (n.) Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold..
Veneer :: Veneer (v. t.) To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany. Used also figuratively..
Acierage :: Acierage (n.) The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.
Sardius :: Sardius (n.) A precious stone, probably a carnelian, one of which was set in Aaron's breastplate..
Niello :: Niello (n.) An impression on paper taken from an ancient incised decoration or metal plate.
Laminable :: Laminable (a.) Capable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip..
Intertie :: Intertie (n.) In any framed work, a horizontal tie other than sill and plate or other principal ties, securing uprights to one another..
Radiale :: Radiale (n.) Radial plates in the calyx of a crinoid.
Wear :: Wear (n.) A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water..
Ambulacral :: Ambulacral (a.) Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms..
Phonautograph :: Phonautograph (n.) An instrument by means of which a sound can be made to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate..
Chloridate :: Chloridate (v. t.) To treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography..
Bolster :: Bolster (n.) the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
Clout :: Clout (n.) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
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