Unscramble plates

Definition of plate

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". Synonyms: home, home base, home plate.
• a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic.
• a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper).
• dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten.
• the quantity contained in a plate. Synonyms: plateful.
• a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly. Synonyms: crustal plate.
• the thin under portion of the forequarter.
• a main course served on a plate; "a vegetable plate", "the blue plate special".
• any flat platelike body structure or part.
• the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube.
• a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded. Synonyms: photographic plate.
• structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage.
• a shallow receptacle for collection in church. Synonyms: collection plate.
• a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners). Synonyms: scale, shell.
• a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth. Synonyms: dental plate, denture.

verb:

• coat with a layer of metal; "plate spoons with silver".

Related words

baffle, bridge, bridgework, chrome, comb, damper, disc, disk, electroplate, engraving, escutcheon, fishplate, frill, goldplate, grid, gusset, horseshoe, lamella, lamina, nameplate, nickel, numberplate, operculum, platen, plessimeter, pleximeter, shoe, silver, silverplate, tap, tin.

Words nearby

alate, blate, elate, late, palate, pate, pilate, place, plage, plane, plat, platen, plater, plath, plato, platte, platy, prate, slate.

Rhymes with

abate, ablate, actuate, ate, await, bait, bate, berate, chait, collate, commutate, conflate, conjugate, crate, create, date, debate, deflate, demodulate, desecrate.