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platenoun

uk ​ /pleɪt/ us ​ /pleɪt/

plate noun (DISH)

A1 [ C ] a flat, usually round dish with a slightly raised edge that you eat from or serve food from:

paper/plastic/china plates
a dinner/salad plate
clean/dirty plates
There's still lots of food on your plate.

› [ C ] also plateful an amount of food on a plate:

Stephen ate three plates of spaghetti.

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plate noun (FLAT PIECE)

› [ C ] a flat piece of something that is hard and does not bend:

Thick bony plates protected the dinosaur against attack.
The ship's deck is composed of steel plates.
See also
licence plate
number plate

› [ C ] specialized publishing a flat piece of metal with words and/or pictures on it that can be printed

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Idiom(s)

give/hand sth to sb on a plate
have sth on your plate

plateverb [ T ]

uk ​ /pleɪt/ us ​ /pleɪt/
-plated
suffix uk ​ / -pleɪ.tɪd/ us ​ / -pleɪ.t̬ɪd/

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Gold-plated earrings are much cheaper than solid gold ones.
plating
noun [ U ] uk ​ /ˈpleɪ.tɪŋ/ us ​ /ˈpleɪ.t̬ɪŋ/

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gold/silver plating

Phrasal verb(s)

plate sth up

(Definition of “plate” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

"plate" in American English

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platenoun

us ​ /pleɪt/

plate noun (DISH)

› [ C ] a flat dish on which food is served or from which it is eaten

› also plateful [ C ] an amount of food on a plate:

Dominic helped himself to a plate of spaghetti.

plate noun (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.

plate noun (LAYER)

› earth science /pleɪt/ [ C ] one of the large moving layers of rock that the earth's surface is believed to be made of

plateverb [ T ]

us ​ /pleɪt/

plate verb [ T ] (ADD THIN LAYER)

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

gold plated

(Definition of “plate” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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