License Plate

Definition: License Plate

License Plate

Noun

1. A plate mounted on the front and back of car and bearing the car's registration number.

Synonym: License Plate

Synonym: numberplate (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: License plate

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A license plate or number plate is a small metal plate attached to a vehicle. The plate has a serial number on it which uniquely identifies the vehicle.

In Canada, Mexico, Australia, and the United States, license plates are issued by provinicial/territorial/state governments. Their appearance is frequently chosen to contain state symbols or colours. The license plate number's format is chosen to provide enough numbers for all the motor vehicles in the state: Rhode Island, the smallest state, uses the format LLNNN, while California and other populous states use NLLLNNN, where N is a number and L is a letter. Plates on trucks may have different formats such as NLNNNNN.

People can pay extra and get vanity plates: license plates with custom messages on them. Vanity plates are not allowed to have profane or obscene messages on them, and of course they must also be unique.

International codes

On the international level the license plates of different countries are distinguished by a supplementary license plate country code. This country designator is displayed in bold block uppercase on a small white oval plate or sticker on the rear of the vehicle near the number plate.

The allocation of codes in maintained by the United Nations as the Distinguishing Signs of Vehicles in International Traffic, being authorized by the UN's 1949 and 1968 Conventions on Road Traffic. Many, but far from all, vehicle codes created since the adoption of ISO 3166 coincide with either the ISO two or three letter codes.

This is an incomplete list. For a complete list, see this article in the German Wikipedia.

License plate country codes

A Austria
AZ Azerbaijan
B Belgium, see Belgian car number plates
BG Bulgaria
BIH Bosnia and Herzegovina
BY Belarus
CH Switzerland
CZ Czech Republic
D Germany
DK Denmark
E Spain
EST Estonia
F France
FIN Finland
GB United Kingdom, see British car number plates
GE Georgia
GR Greece
H Hungary
HR Croatia
I Italy
IRL Ireland
L Luxembourg
LT Lithuania
LV Latvia
MD Moldova
MK Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
N Norway
NL Netherlands
P Portugal
PL Poland
RO Romania
RUS Russia
S Sweden
SK Slovakia
SLO Slovenia
TR Turkey
UA Ukraine
YU Yugoslavia

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "License plate."

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Crosswords: License Plate

English words defined with "license plate": license number ♦ registration number. (references)

Specialty definitions using "license plate": entrance guard. (references)

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Modern Usage: License Plate

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Kent put his name on his license plate. (Real Genius; writing credit: Neal Israel; Pat Proft)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: License Plate

Domain	Title
Books	License Plate Book ('97 edition) (reference) License Plate Book: Current Plates of United States and Canada (reference) License Plate Game - Game Card (reference) License Plate Trivia Book (reference) Tags - Travel, Activities, Games and Stuff: Complete Travel Guide and License Plate Game (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: License Plate

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Non-Fiction Usage: License Plate

Subject	Topic	Quote
Minorities	Switzerland	Although authorities only recorded a few license plate numbers and did not disrupt the gathering, some accused the police of bias because of their conspicuous monitoring of the event. (references)
Travel	Chile	License plate numbers dictate which automobiles are eligible on which days. (references)
	Korea	If this happens, the traveler should contact the airport authority (032-743-1013) and provide the taxi's license plate number so the authorities can take action to have the driver banned from the airport. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: License Plate

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
license plate	1,901	california license plate	66
license plate frame	829	kentucky license plate	61
personalized license plate	410	license plate look up	59
license plate search	336	license plate number	57
custom license plate	284	colorado license plate	51
texas license plate	193	european license plate	49
license plate holder	180	georgia license plate	49
free license plate search	169	hideaway license plate	47
license plate cover	148	license plate purse	46
license plate lookup	128	personalized license plate frame	44
florida license plate	110	license plate bracket	40
vanity license plate	97	license plate name	36
license plate numbers	97	1916 license plate wyoming	36
illinois license plate	92	front license plate	35
state license plate	88	away hide license plate	35
ohio license plate	85	customized license plate	31
funny license plate	75	decorative license plate	31
novelty license plate	73	trace a license plate	25
custom license plate frame	71	license plate recognition	17
motorcycle license plate frame	70	airbrush license plate	13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: License Plate

Language		Translations for "license plate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		targë (number plate, plate). (various references)

Chinese		牌照 . (various references)

Danish		nummerplade (car number plate, number plate, numberplate). (various references)

Dutch		nummerplaat (car number plate, number plate), kentekenplaat (car number plate, number plate, numberplate). (various references)

French		plaque minéralogique, plaque d'immatriculation (licence plate). (various references)

German		nummernschild (car number plate, number plate, numberplate, registration plate). (various references)

Greek		πινακίδα κυκλοφορίας (car number plate, number plate), πινακίδα αριθμού κυκλοφορίας (car number plate, number plate). (various references)

Hungarian		rendszámtábla (number plate, registration plate). (various references)

Italian		targa (car number plate, indicator plate, licence plate, name plate, name-plate, number plate, numberplate, plate, tablet, target). (various references)

Pig Latin		icenselay ateplay

Portuguese		placa de matrícula (car number plate, number plate), número de placa (licence plate), chapa de matrícula (car number plate, number plate). (various references)

Russian		номерной знак. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		registarska tablica. (various references)

Spanish		placa de matricula (car number plate, number plate), chapa de matriculación, chapa de matrícula (car number plate, number plate). (various references)

Thai		แผ่นป้ายทะเบียนรถยนต์. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: License Plate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-i-l-l-n-p-s-t"
	-2 letters: cleanliest, clienteles, pestilence, plasticene.
	-3 letters: antisleep, callipees, celestial, clientele, lancelets, latencies, lenticels, palletise, patencies, patiences, pelletise, penalties, pentacles, splenetic, tapelines, tenailles.
	-4 letters: alienees, allspice, calipees, callipee, capelets, capelins, centiles, cineaste, cleanest, cliental, enlistee, epicenes, especial, lancelet, lealties, lenticel, licensee, nacelles, palliest, panelist, panicles, pantiles, pastille, patience, pectines, pelicans, penalise, penlites, pentacle, petaline, plainest.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-i-l-l-n-p-s-t"
	+5 letters: encephalomyelitis, superintellectual.
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