Plate Thin Pleɪt Flat Metal Sandwiches Includes Food

• sandwiches on a plate
• there was an enormous pile of dirty plates in the kitchen sink.
• the set includes four dinner plates, four side plates and four soup bowls.
• they filled their plates with spaghetti.

plate

1. a flat, usually round, dish that you put food on
• SEE ALSO paper plate
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/paper-plate
• sandwiches on a plate
• There was an enormous pile of dirty plates in the kitchen sink.
• The set includes four dinner plates, four side plates and four soup bowls.
• They filled their plates with spaghetti.

Extra Examples

• I could see how hungry she was from the way she cleared her plate.
• She ate everything on her plate.
• He barely touched the food on his plate.
• He came in carrying a plate of sandwiches.
• We used plastic cutlery and ate off paper plates.
2. the amount of food that you can put on a plate
• a plate of sandwiches
• two large plates of pasta
• At dinner, Paul ate several plates of stew.
3. a whole main course of a meal, served on one plate
• Try the seafood plate.
4. a thin flat piece of metal, used especially to join or make something stronger
• The tanks were mainly constructed of steel plates.
• She had a metal plate inserted in her arm.
5. a flat piece of metal with some information on it, for example somebody’s name
• SEE ALSO nameplate
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/nameplate
• A brass plate beside the door said ‘Dr Alan Tate’.
6. the pieces of metal or plastic at the front and back of a vehicle with numbers and letters on it
• SEE ALSO GB plate
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/gb-plate
7. ordinary metal that is covered with a thin layer of silver or gold
• SEE ALSO gold plate
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/gold-plate
• The cutlery is plate, not solid silver.
8. dishes, bowls, etc. that are made of silver or gold
• the family plate
9. one of the thin flat pieces of horn or bone that cover and protect an animal
• the armadillo’s protective shell of bony plates
10. one of the very large pieces of rock that form the earth’s surface and move slowly
• SEE ALSO plate tectonics
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/plate-tectonics
• the Pacific plate
• Earthquakes are caused by two tectonic plates bumping into each other.
11. a photograph that is used as a picture in a book, especially one that is printed on a separate page on high quality paper
• The book includes 55 colour plates.
• See plate 4.
• She looked like a fashion plate.
12. a sheet of metal, plastic, etc. that has been treated so that words or pictures can be printed from it
• a printing plate
13. 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
14. 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
• COMPARE brace
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/brace_2
15. the place where the person hitting the ball stands and where they must return to after running around all the bases
16. a flat dish that is used to collect money from people in a church
17. to give something to somebody without that person making any effort
• Nobody's going to hand you success on a plate.
18. to have a lot of work or problems, etc. to deal with
19. to do what is necessary in order to benefit from an opportunity or deal with a crisis
• It's important for world leaders to step up to the plate and honor their commitments on global warming.
• It’s time for businesses to step up to the plate and accept responsibility.

Word Origin

• Middle English (denoting a flat, thin sheet, usually of metal): from Old French, from medieval Latin plata ‘plate armour’, based on Greek platus ‘flat’. Senses (1) to (3) represent Old French plat ‘platter, large dish’, also ‘dish of meat’, noun use of Old French plat ‘flat’.