plate

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A flat, slightly curved dish that you eat food from.

   I filled my plate from the table.

2. 2
   noun

   The amount of food on such a dish.

   I ate a plate of beans.

3. 3
   noun

   A flat, thin piece of metal or other hard material.

   The most expensive part of a solar cell is a thin silicon plate.

4. 4
   verb

   To cover a metal object with a thin layer of another metal.

   They plate the spoons with silver.

From Middle English plate, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato. (foot): Cockney rhyming slang, from "plates of meat" for "feet".

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