plate
plate is a 5-letter English word with 34 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.
- noun. Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.
- noun. Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold.
- noun. A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.
- noun. A piece of money, usually silver money.
- noun. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate.
- noun. A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.
- noun. That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
- noun. A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.
- noun. A prize giving to the winner in a contest.
- transitive verb. To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.
- transitive verb. To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.
- transitive verb. To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.
- transitive verb. To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae.
- transitive verb. To calender; as, to plate paper.
- noun. a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
- noun. (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
"he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"
- noun. dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
- noun. a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- noun. a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
- noun. a shallow receptacle for collection in church
- noun. structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
- noun. a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
- noun. a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
- noun. the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
- noun. any flat platelike body structure or part
- noun. a main course served on a plate
"a vegetable plate"
"the blue plate special"
- noun. the thin under portion of the forequarter
- noun. a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
- noun. the quantity contained in a plate
- verb. coat with a layer of metal
"plate spoons with silver"
Synonyms
denture, home, scale, shell, plateful
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in plate:
leapt, lepta, palet, patel, pelta, petal, pleat, tepal
Common word forms
plated, plater, plates, plating, plateful, plateless
Words from these letters
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