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plate plate ★★★☆☆/ple͟ɪt/1[N-COUNT	可数名词]盘；碟 A plate is a round or oval flat dish that is used to hold food.   [usu N of n]Anita pushed her plate away； she had eaten virtually nothing.安妮塔把自己的盘子推开；她几乎什么都没吃。A plate of food is the amount of food on the plate.一盘（或碟）之量...a huge plate of bacon and eggs.一大盘咸肉煎蛋2[N-COUNT	可数名词]（尤指用于机械或建筑上金属制的）平板，薄板 A plate is a flat piece of metal, especially on machinery or a building. 3[N-COUNT	可数名词]（通常置于办公室或住宅门边上的）金属姓名牌 A plate is a small, flat piece of metal with someone's name written on it, which you usually find beside the front door of an office or house. 4[N-PLURAL	复数名词]See also:number plate；license plate；（车辆的）号码牌，牌照 On a road vehicle, the plates are the panels at the front and back which display the license number in the United States, and the registration number in Britain. ...dusty-looking cars with New Jersey plates.落满灰尘、挂着新泽西州牌照的汽车5[N-UNCOUNT	不可数名词]（尤指银或金质的）餐具 Plate is dishes, bowls, and cups that are made of precious metal, especially silver or gold. ...gold and silver plate, jewellery, and roomfuls of antique furniture.金银餐具、珠宝，还有整屋整屋的古董家具6[N-COUNT	可数名词]（印刷用的）印版，图版 In printing, a plate is a sheet of metal which is carved or specially treated with chemicals so that it can be used to print text or pictures. 7[N-COUNT	可数名词]（摄影中的）感光板，（玻璃）干版 In photography, a plate is a thin sheet of glass that is covered with a layer of chemicals which react to the light and on which an image can be formed. 8[N-COUNT	可数名词]（书中的）整版插图 A plate in a book is a picture or photograph which takes up a whole page and is usually printed on better quality paper than the rest of the book. Fermor's book has 55 colour plates.弗莫尔的书里有55页整版彩色插图。9[N-COUNT	可数名词]（显微镜下的长方形）载物片，玻璃片 In a microscope, the plate is a small rectangular piece of glass onto which you put a small amount of the substance that you want to look at. You then slide the plate under the microscope to look at the substance. 10[N-COUNT	可数名词]假牙托；（牙）托基 A dental plate is a piece of plastic which is shaped to fit inside a person's mouth and which a set of false teeth is attached to. 11[N-COUNT	可数名词]（地质学中的大陆）板块 In geology, a plate is a large piece of the earth's surface, perhaps as large as a continent, which moves very slowly.   [TECHNICAL 术语]The United States Geological Survey has revealed that the earthquake was not caused by a simple horizontal movement of one plate past another.美国地质调查局揭示了此次地震并非由大陆板块间简单的水平交错运动所引起。12[N-COUNT	可数名词]（棒球运动中）the plate 同 home plate In baseball, the plate is the same as the home plate.   [usu the N in sing]  [AM 美]13[PHRASE	短语]有很多工作要做；有很多事要处理 If you have enough on your plate or have a lot on your plate, you have a lot of work to do or a lot of things to deal with.   [V inflects]We have enough on our plate. There is plenty of work to be done on what we have.我们有很多工作要做。仅是手头现有的事情就已经有的忙了。14[PHRASE	短语]把…拱手奉送给 If you say that someone has things handed to them on a plate, you disapprove of them because they get good things easily.   [V inflects]  [disapproval]  [mainly BRIT 主英]Even the presidency was handed to him on a plate.他甚至连总统之位都是得来全不费工夫。 plate1 nounplate2 verbplateplate1 /pleɪt/ ●●● S2 W2 noun  Entry menu Word Origin Examples Thesaurus Collocations Phrases 1food [countable] a)a flat and usually round dish that you eat from or serve food on:  The plates were piled high with rice. a dinner plate b) (also plateful) the amount of food that is on a plateplate of He’s eaten a whole plate of french fries. ► Do not use plate when you mean ‘food cooked in a particular way as a meal’. Use dish: the chef who created this dish (NOT this plate)2sign [countable] a flat piece of metal with words or numbers on it, for example on a door or a car:  The brass plate on the door said ‘Dr Rackman’.number/license/registration plate (=on a car) Did anyone see the car’s license plate? →L-plate, nameplate3have a lot/enough on your plate informal to have a lot of problems to deal with or problems to worry about4protective covering [countable] a)technical one of the thin sheets of bone, horn etc that covers and protects the outside of some animals b)a thin sheet of metal used to protect somethingmetal/steel/iron plates The shoes had metal plates attached to the heels.5earth’s surface [countable] technical one of the very large sheets of rock that form the surface of the Earth →plate tectonics6gold/silver a)gold/silver plate ordinary metal with a thin covering of gold or silver b)[uncountable] things such as plates, cups, forks, or knives made of gold or silver7hand/give/offer somebody something on a plate to let someone get or achieve something easily, without much effort from them:  I worked hard for what I’ve got. It wasn’t handed to me on a plate.8pictures/photos [countable] a)a sheet of metal that has been cut or treated in a special way so that words or pictures can be printed from its surface:  copper printing plates b)a picture in a book, printed on good-quality paper and usually coloured c)a thin sheet of glass used especially in the past in photography, with chemicals on it that are sensitive to light9baseball [countable usually singular] the place where the person hitting the ball stands10competition the ... Plate used in the names of sports competitions or races in which the winner gets a silver plate:  This horse won the Galway Plate.11teeth [countable] a)a thin piece of plastic shaped to fit inside a person’s mouth, into which false teeth are fixed b) British English a thin piece of plastic with wires fixed to it, that some people wear in their mouth to make their teeth straight SYN brace British English →hotplateplate1 nounplate2 verbplateplate2 verb [transitive]  Verb Table Examples Collocations Phrases  be plated with something a)to be covered with a thin covering of gold or silver:  a beautiful necklace, plated with 22-carat goldgold-plated/silver-plated a gold-plated watch b)to be covered in sheets of a hard material such as metal:  The ship had been heavily plated with protective sheets.

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            plate              ★                    /        pleɪt                ;          NAmE                pleɪt                /                              noun                ,                  verb                            plate      plates      plated      plating                            noun        ★                    food        食物                    1        ★                  [countable          ]                          a flat, usually round, dish that you put food on            盘子；碟子                                    ◆          sandwiches on a plate          盘子上的三明治                          ◆          a pile of dirty plates          一摞脏盘子                          ◆          dinner plates          餐盘                            2        ★                  [countable          ]                          the amount of food that you can put on a            plate            一盘所盛之量；一盘                                    ◆          a plate of sandwiches          一盘三明治                          ◆          two large plates of pasta          两大盘意大利面                          ☞compare                                                    plateful                                                                3                  [countable          ]                          (            especially NAmE)                    a whole main course of a meal, served on one            plate            一道主菜                                    ◆          Try the seafood plate.          尝尝这道海鲜吧。                            for strength        强化用                    4        ★                  [countable          ]                          a thin flat piece of metal, used especially to join or make sth stronger            （金属）板条，板材                                    ◆          The tanks were mainly constructed of steel plates.          这些坦克车主要是用钢板制造的。                          ◆          She had a metal plate inserted in her arm.          她的胳膊里嵌着一块接骨板。                            for information        提供信息                    5                  [countable          ]                          a flat piece of metal with some information on it, for example sb's name            （刻有名字等的）金属牌子                                    ◆          A brass plate beside the door said ‘Dr Alan Tate’.          门旁的铜牌上写着“艾伦 · 泰特医生”。                          ☞see also                                                    nameplate                                                                on vehicle        车辆上                    6                  [usually plural          ]                          the pieces of metal or plastic at the front and back of a vehicle with numbers and letters on it            （车辆的）号码牌                                    ☞see also                                                    L-plate                                              ,                                                    license plate                                              ,                                                    number plate                                                                silver/gold        银；金                    7                  [uncountable          ]                          ordinary metal that is covered with a thin layer of silver or gold            镀金（或镀银）的金属                                    ◆          The cutlery is plate, not solid silver.          这套餐具是镀银的，不是纯银的。                          ☞see also                                                    gold plate                                              ,                                                    silver plate                                              ,                                                    tinplate                                                                8                  [uncountable          ]                          dishes, bowls, etc. that are made of silver or gold            金的（或银的）餐具                                      on animal        动物                    9                  [countable          ]                          (            biology              生            )                    one of the thin flat pieces of horn or bone that cover and protect an animal            盾片；鳞甲；护甲                                    ◆          the armadillo's protective shell of bony plates          犰狳的一层防护性鳞甲                            geology        地质学                    10                  [countable          ]                          one of the very large pieces of rock that form the earth's surface and move slowly            板块                                    ◆          the Pacific plate          太平洋板块                          ◆          Earthquakes are caused by two            tectonic platesbumping into each other.                    地震是由两块地壳构造板块互相碰撞造成的。                          ☞see also                                                    plate tectonics                                                                printing/photography        印刷；摄影                    11                  [countable          ]                          a photograph that is used as a picture in a book, especially one that is printed on a separate page on high quality paper            书籍插图照片；（尤指优质纸上的）整页插图                                    ◆          The book includes 55 colour plates.          本书有 55 幅彩色插图。                          ◆          See plate 4.          见彩图 4。                            12                  [countable          ]                          a sheet of metal, plastic, etc. that has been treated so that words or pictures can be printed from it            （印刷用的）印版，图版                                    ◆          a printing plate          印版                            13                  [countable          ]                          a thin sheet of glass, metal, etc. that is covered with chemicals so that it reacts to light and can form an image, used in larger or older cameras            （玻璃、金属等）底片，感光板                                      in mouth        口内                    14                  [countable          ]                          a thin piece of plastic with wire or artificial teeth attached to it which fits inside your mouth in order to make your teeth straight            假牙托；托牙板；假牙床                                    ☞compare                                                    brace                                                   n.                           (2              )                                ,                                                    dentures                                                                in baseball        棒球                    15                  [singular          ]                (          NAmE)                =                                                    home plate                                                                in church        教堂                    16                  (          usuallythe plate          )                          [singular          ]                          a flat dish that is used to collect money from people in a church            奉献盘；捐款盘                                      ☞see also                                    bookplate                              ,                                    breastplate                              ,                                    footplate                              ,                                    hotplate                                      IDIOM              have enough/a lot/too much on your ˈplate                              (              informal)                        to have a lot of work or problems, etc. to deal with              问题（或工作等）成堆                                                  ☞more at                                    hand                                   v.            ,                                    step                                   v.                                  verb                    [usually passive      ]              1              platesth (with sth)                    to cover a metal with a thin layer of another metal, especially gold or silver          电镀（尤指镀金、镀银）                            ◆        a silver ring plated with gold        一枚镀金的银戒指                    ☞see also                                            gold-plated                                      ,                                            silver plate                                                  2              platesth (with sth)                    to cover sth with sheets of metal or another hard substance          为…加设护板；（用金属板等）覆盖                            ◆        The walls of the vault were plated with steel.        保险库的墙壁都装了钢板。                    ☞see also                                            armour-plated                                                      plate              /        pleɪt                ;          NAmE               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Collins	plate ★★★☆☆ /ple͟ɪt/ 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]盘；碟 A plate is a round or oval flat dish that is used to hold food. [usu N of n] Anita pushed her plate away； she had eaten virtually nothing. 安妮塔把自己的盘子推开；她几乎什么都没吃。 A plate of food is the amount of food on the plate.一盘（或碟）之量 ...a huge plate of bacon and eggs. 一大盘咸肉煎蛋 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（尤指用于机械或建筑上金属制的）平板，薄板 A plate is a flat piece of metal, especially on machinery or a building. 3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（通常置于办公室或住宅门边上的）金属姓名牌 A plate is a small, flat piece of metal with someone's name written on it, which you usually find beside the front door of an office or house. 4 [N-PLURAL 复数名词]See also:number plate ；license plate ；（车辆的）号码牌，牌照 On a road vehicle, the plates are the panels at the front and back which display the license number in the United States, and the registration number in Britain. ...dusty-looking cars with New Jersey plates. 落满灰尘、挂着新泽西州牌照的汽车 5 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]（尤指银或金质的）餐具 Plate is dishes, bowls, and cups that are made of precious metal, especially silver or gold. ...gold and silver plate, jewellery, and roomfuls of antique furniture. 金银餐具、珠宝，还有整屋整屋的古董家具 6 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（印刷用的）印版，图版 In printing, a plate is a sheet of metal which is carved or specially treated with chemicals so that it can be used to print text or pictures. 7 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（摄影中的）感光板，（玻璃）干版 In photography, a plate is a thin sheet of glass that is covered with a layer of chemicals which react to the light and on which an image can be formed. 8 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（书中的）整版插图 A plate in a book is a picture or photograph which takes up a whole page and is usually printed on better quality paper than the rest of the book. Fermor's book has 55 colour plates. 弗莫尔的书里有55页整版彩色插图。 9 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（显微镜下的长方形）载物片，玻璃片 In a microscope, the plate is a small rectangular piece of glass onto which you put a small amount of the substance that you want to look at. You then slide the plate under the microscope to look at the substance. 10 [N-COUNT 可数名词]假牙托；（牙）托基 A dental plate is a piece of plastic which is shaped to fit inside a person's mouth and which a set of false teeth is attached to. 11 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（地质学中的大陆）板块 In geology, a plate is a large piece of the earth's surface, perhaps as large as a continent, which moves very slowly. [TECHNICAL 术语] The United States Geological Survey has revealed that the earthquake was not caused by a simple horizontal movement of one plate past another. 美国地质调查局揭示了此次地震并非由大陆板块间简单的水平交错运动所引起。 12 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（棒球运动中）the plate 同 home plate In baseball, the plate is the same as the home plate. [usu the N in sing] [AM 美] 13 [PHRASE 短语]有很多工作要做；有很多事要处理 If you have enough on your plate or have a lot on your plate, you have a lot of work to do or a lot of things to deal with. [V inflects] We have enough on our plate. There is plenty of work to be done on what we have. 我们有很多工作要做。仅是手头现有的事情就已经有的忙了。 14 [PHRASE 短语]把…拱手奉送给 If you say that someone has things handed to them on a plate, you disapprove of them because they get good things easily. [V inflects] [disapproval] [mainly BRIT 主英] Even the presidency was handed to him on a plate. 他甚至连总统之位都是得来全不费工夫。
Oxford	plate ★ / pleɪt ; NAmE pleɪt / noun , verb plate plates plated plating noun ★ food 食物 1 ★ [countable ] a flat, usually round, dish that you put food on 盘子；碟子 ◆ sandwiches on a plate 盘子上的三明治 ◆ a pile of dirty plates 一摞脏盘子 ◆ dinner plates 餐盘 2 ★ [countable ] the amount of food that you can put on a plate 一盘所盛之量；一盘 ◆ a plate of sandwiches 一盘三明治 ◆ two large plates of pasta 两大盘意大利面 ☞compare plateful 3 [countable ] ( especially NAmE) a whole main course of a meal, served on one plate 一道主菜 ◆ Try the seafood plate. 尝尝这道海鲜吧。 for strength 强化用 4 ★ [countable ] a thin flat piece of metal, used especially to join or make sth stronger （金属）板条，板材 ◆ The tanks were mainly constructed of steel plates. 这些坦克车主要是用钢板制造的。 ◆ She had a metal plate inserted in her arm. 她的胳膊里嵌着一块接骨板。 for information 提供信息 5 [countable ] a flat piece of metal with some information on it, for example sb's name （刻有名字等的）金属牌子 ◆ A brass plate beside the door said ‘Dr Alan Tate’. 门旁的铜牌上写着“艾伦 · 泰特医生”。 ☞see also nameplate on vehicle 车辆上 6 [usually plural ] the pieces of metal or plastic at the front and back of a vehicle with numbers and letters on it （车辆的）号码牌 ☞see also L-plate , license plate , number plate silver/gold 银；金 7 [uncountable ] ordinary metal that is covered with a thin layer of silver or gold 镀金（或镀银）的金属 ◆ The cutlery is plate, not solid silver. 这套餐具是镀银的，不是纯银的。 ☞see also gold plate , silver plate , tinplate 8 [uncountable ] dishes, bowls, etc. that are made of silver or gold 金的（或银的）餐具 on animal 动物 9 [countable ] ( biology 生 ) one of the thin flat pieces of horn or bone that cover and protect an animal 盾片；鳞甲；护甲 ◆ the armadillo's protective shell of bony plates 犰狳的一层防护性鳞甲 geology 地质学 10 [countable ] one of the very large pieces of rock that form the earth's surface and move slowly 板块 ◆ the Pacific plate 太平洋板块 ◆ Earthquakes are caused by two tectonic platesbumping into each other. 地震是由两块地壳构造板块互相碰撞造成的。 ☞see also plate tectonics printing/photography 印刷；摄影 11 [countable ] a photograph that is used as a picture in a book, especially one that is printed on a separate page on high quality paper 书籍插图照片；（尤指优质纸上的）整页插图 ◆ The book includes 55 colour plates. 本书有 55 幅彩色插图。 ◆ See plate 4. 见彩图 4。 12 [countable ] a sheet of metal, plastic, etc. that has been treated so that words or pictures can be printed from it （印刷用的）印版，图版 ◆ a printing plate 印版 13 [countable ] a thin sheet of glass, metal, etc. that is covered with chemicals so that it reacts to light and can form an image, used in larger or older cameras （玻璃、金属等）底片，感光板 in mouth 口内 14 [countable ] a thin piece of plastic with wire or artificial teeth attached to it which fits inside your mouth in order to make your teeth straight 假牙托；托牙板；假牙床 ☞compare brace n. (2 ) , dentures in baseball 棒球 15 [singular ] ( NAmE) = home plate in church 教堂 16 ( usuallythe plate ) [singular ] a flat dish that is used to collect money from people in a church 奉献盘；捐款盘 ☞see also bookplate , breastplate , footplate , hotplate IDIOM have enough/a lot/too much on your ˈplate ( informal) to have a lot of work or problems, etc. to deal with 问题（或工作等）成堆 ☞more at hand v. , step v. verb [usually passive ] 1 platesth (with sth) to cover a metal with a thin layer of another metal, especially gold or silver 电镀（尤指镀金、镀银） ◆ a silver ring plated with gold 一枚镀金的银戒指 ☞see also gold-plated , silver plate 2 platesth (with sth) to cover sth with sheets of metal or another hard substance 为…加设护板；（用金属板等）覆盖 ◆ The walls of the vault were plated with steel. 保险库的墙壁都装了钢板。 ☞see also armour-plated plate / pleɪt ; NAmE pleɪt /
LDC	plate1 noun plate2 verb plateplate1 /pleɪt/ ●●● S2 W2 noun Entry menu Word Origin Examples Thesaurus Collocations Phrases 1food [countable] a)a flat and usually round dish that you eat from or serve food on: The plates were piled high with rice. a dinner plate b) (also plateful) the amount of food that is on a plateplate of He’s eaten a whole plate of french fries. ► Do not use plate when you mean ‘food cooked in a particular way as a meal’. Use dish: the chef who created this dish (NOT this plate)2sign [countable] a flat piece of metal with words or numbers on it, for example on a door or a car: The brass plate on the door said ‘Dr Rackman’.number/license/registration plate (=on a car) Did anyone see the car’s license plate? → L-plate , nameplate 3have a lot/enough on your plate informal to have a lot of problems to deal with or problems to worry about4protective covering [countable] a)technical one of the thin sheets of bone, horn etc that covers and protects the outside of some animals b)a thin sheet of metal used to protect somethingmetal/steel/iron plates The shoes had metal plates attached to the heels.5earth’s surface [countable] technical one of the very large sheets of rock that form the surface of the Earth → plate tectonics 6gold/silver a)gold/silver plate ordinary metal with a thin covering of gold or silver b)[uncountable] things such as plates, cups, forks, or knives made of gold or silver7hand/give/offer somebody something on a plate to let someone get or achieve something easily, without much effort from them: I worked hard for what I’ve got. It wasn’t handed to me on a plate.8pictures/photos [countable] a)a sheet of metal that has been cut or treated in a special way so that words or pictures can be printed from its surface: copper printing plates b)a picture in a book, printed on good-quality paper and usually coloured c)a thin sheet of glass used especially in the past in photography, with chemicals on it that are sensitive to light9baseball [countable usually singular] the place where the person hitting the ball stands10competition the ... Plate used in the names of sports competitions or races in which the winner gets a silver plate: This horse won the Galway Plate.11teeth [countable] a)a thin piece of plastic shaped to fit inside a person’s mouth, into which false teeth are fixed b) British English a thin piece of plastic with wires fixed to it, that some people wear in their mouth to make their teeth straight SYN brace British English → hotplate plate1 noun plate2 verb plateplate2 verb [transitive] Verb Table Examples Collocations Phrases be plated with something a)to be covered with a thin covering of gold or silver: a beautiful necklace, plated with 22-carat goldgold-plated/silver-plated a gold-plated watch b)to be covered in sheets of a hard material such as metal: The ship had been heavily plated with protective sheets.
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Plate Metal Thin Piece Countable N Count 可数名词 Silver