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plate | American Dictionary

plate
noun
us/pleɪt/

platenoun (DISH)

[ C ]
a flat dish on which food is served or from which it is eaten
[ C ](alsoplateful)
an amount of food on a plate:
Dominic helped himself to a plate of spaghetti.

platenoun (FLAT PIECE)

[ C ]
a flat piece of something that is hard, does not bend, and is usually used to cover something:
Large, metal plates covered the trench in the roadway.

platenoun (LAYER)

[ C ] earth scienceus/pleɪt/
one of the large moving layers of rock that the earth's surface is believed to be made of
plate
verb[ T ]
us/pleɪt/

plateverb[T] (ADD THIN LAYER)

to cover a metal object with a thin layer of another metal, esp. gold or silver:
gold plated

Examples of plate

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Half-tone illustrations, requiring art paper plates, will be accepted in special circumstances.
The effect of the virus on host fitness was computed from the sum of the numbers of colonies counted on the duplicate competition plates.
In contrast, larvae from control plates remained alive and with vigorous movement throughout the assessment period.
Viability tests involved streaking of an aliquot of the suspension on sterile plates containing the appropriate nutrient medium for each species.
Many of these are illustrated in the eighteen colour plates and eight monochrome figures.
The numbers afterwards are issued in volumes each containing four numbers and amounting to between 400 and 500 pages, with plates and figures.
Importantly, however, most of the cells in these cell lines were capable to form spheres when cultured in low-binding plates even in the serum-containing medium.
The plates were incubated at room temperature for 60 min and washed before a substrate solution was added.
Worms, transferred to microtitre plates using insect pins, were placed individually in the bottom of a well containing 200 l of water.
The wells in each of the 3 types of plates were filled with approximately 15 ml of distilled water.
The moving ampoule blow against metal plates created the impulse acceleration.
The ilmenite grains generally form dendritic plates (arrowed) in contrast to the euhedral orthopyroxene grains.
The limestones are pure calcarenites lacking siliciclastic detritus and containing a distinctive fossil assemblage of crinoid plates, algal grains, corals, ammonoids, brachiopods and fusulinids.
Batteries are housed in the end cap, and these supply heaters that warm heater plates in the oil chamber.
Mountains, molecules, and tectonic plates, for example, exist and would exist if there had never been any humans or animals.
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Collocations withplate

plate

These are words often used in combination with plate.

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agar plate
Bacterial colonies grew quasi-two-dimensionally on the agarplate surface.
backing plate
The rigid backing plate merely passively reflects the sound that is transmitted through the perforated screen.
bony plate
The zygomatic plate, a bony plate at the side of the skull, was broad.
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