Definition of plate

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Plate (n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters..

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Unrivet :: Unrivet (v. t.) To take out, or loose, the rivets of; as, to unrivet boiler plates..
Mouldboard :: Mouldboard (n.) A curved plate of iron (originally of wood) back of the share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing..
Placodermi :: Placodermi (n. pl.) An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids. The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust. under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus..
Oostegite :: Oostegite (n.) One of the plates which in some Crustacea inclose a cavity wherein the eggs are hatched.
Laminate :: Laminate (v. t.) To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates.
Abacinate :: Abacinate (v. t.) To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes.
Platin :: Platin (n.) See Platen.
Platefuls :: Platefuls (pl. ) of Platefu.
Foliaceous :: Foliaceous (a.) Consisting of leaves or thin laminae; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar..
Backed :: Backed (a.) Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed..
Clypeus :: Clypeus (n.) The frontal plate of the head of an insect.
Solleret :: Solleret (n.) A flexible steel shoe (or one of the plates forming such a shoe), worn with mediaeval armor..
Ostracion :: Ostracion (n.) A genus of plectognath fishes having the body covered with solid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes..
Contemplate :: Contemplate (v. i.) To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate.
Placard :: Placard (n.) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate.
Die :: Die (n.) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc..
Plate :: 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..
Cuirass :: Cuirass (n.) An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass..
Clypeate :: Clypeate (a.) Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell..
Biting In :: Biting in () The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch..
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