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a plate for holding an individual serving of the main course of a meal.
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dinner plate
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dinner plate — noun a plate from which a diner eats during the main course of a meal • Hypernyms: ↑plate * * * noun : a large plate usually 10 inches in diameter used for the main course of a meal * * * a plate for holding an individual serving of the main… … Useful english dictionary
plate — plate1 W2S2 [pleıt] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(food)¦ 2¦(sign)¦ 3 have a lot/enough on your plate 4¦(protective covering)¦ 5¦(earth s surface)¦ 6¦(gold/silver)¦ 7 hand/give/offer somebody something on a plate 8¦(pictures/photos)¦ 9¦(baseball)¦ … Dictionary of contemporary English
plate — 1 /pleIt/ noun 1 FOOD a) (C) a flat and usually round dish that you eat from or serve food from: The plates were piled high with rice. | a dinner plate | clear/empty your plate (=eat everything on your plate) b) also plateful (C) the amount of… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
plate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. platter, dish, utensil, tray; slab, sheet, planch; coating, veneer, coat; denture. See receptacle, layer. v. t. overlay, laminate; gild, silver, platinize; veneer; electroplate. See covering, layer.… … English dictionary for students
plate — 1. noun 1) a dinner plate Syn: dish, platter, salver, paten, charger; historical trencher 2) a plate of spaghetti Syn: plateful, helping, portion, serving 3) steel plates … Thesaurus of popular words
plate — 1. noun 1) a dinner plate Syn: dish, platter, salver; historical trencher; archaic charger 2) a plate of spaghetti Syn: plateful, helping, portion, serving 3) steel plates … Synonyms and antonyms dictionary
plate — n 1. dish, platter, dinner plate, Archaic. trencher, Archaic. charger; saucer, paten, disk; plaque. 2. course, dish, service; portion, serving, helping, second helping. 3. sheet, panel, pane, slab; ply, flap, slat, table; layer, leaf, lamina,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
Plate — Plate, n. [OF. plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. plat flat, Gr. ?. See {Place}, n.] 1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Plate armor — Plate Plate, n. [OF. plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. plat flat, Gr. ?. See {Place}, n.] 1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Plate bone — Plate Plate, n. [OF. plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. plat flat, Gr. ?. See {Place}, n.] 1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
