Plate

[pleɪt] or [plet]

解釋/意思:

(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'.

錄入:丽莎--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

(n.) Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.

(n.) Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.

(n.) Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold.

(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.

(n.) A piece of money, usually silver money.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.

(n.) 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.

(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.

(n.) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.

(n.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.

(n.) A prize giving to the winner in a contest.

(v. t.) To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.

(v. t.) To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.

(v. t.) To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.

(v. t.) To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae.

(v. t.) To calender; as, to plate paper.

錄入:文斯

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Lamina, layer.[2]. Dish, platter.

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解釋/意思:

n. something flat: a thin piece of metal: wrought gold and silver: household utensils in gold and silver: a shallow dish nearly flat: an engraved piece of metal.—v.t. to overlay with a coating of plate or metal: to arm or defend with metal plates: to adorn with metal: to beat into thin plates.—n. Plate′-arm′our armour of strong metal plates for protecting ships-of-war &c.—adj. Plā′ted covered with plates of metal for strength as ships: covered with a coating of a more precious metal: (zool.) covered with hard scales.—ns. Plate′-fleet (Milt.) vessels used for carrying precious metals; Plate′ful as much as a plate will hold; Plate′-glass a fine kind of glass cast in thick plates used for mirrors and large shop-windows; Plate′-lay′er a workman whose occupation it is to lay the rails of a railway and fix them to the sleepers; Plate′-mark a mark or stamp on gold or silver plate to indicate its purity and the place where it was made; Plate′-pow′der a composition of rouge and prepared chalk used for cleaning gold and silver plate and plated articles; Plate′-print′ing the process of printing from engraved plates; Plā′ter one who plates articles with a coating of gold or silver; Plate′-rack a frame for holding plates &c. when not in use; Plate′-warm′er an apparatus in which plates are warmed before the fire; Plā′ting the covering of an inferior metal with one of the precious metals: a thin coating of metal on another.—adj. Plā′ty like a plate.—Half′-plate in photography a size of plate measuring 4?by 6?in. (4?by 5?in U.S.); Quar′ter-plate 3?by 4?in.; Whole′-plate 6?by 8?in.

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