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Definition: Plate |
PlateNoun1. A sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic. 2. (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home". 3. A full-page illustration (usually on slick paper). 4. Dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten. 5. The quantity contained in a plate. 6. A rigid layer of the lithosphere that is believed to drift slowly. 7. The thin under portion of the forequarter. 8. A main course served on a plate: "a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special". 9. Any flat platelike body structure or part. 10. : the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube. 11. : a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded. 12. : structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage. 13. : a shallow receptacle for collection in church. 14. : a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners). 15. : a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth. 16. : the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws; "a catcher needs a lot of protective equipment"; "he plays behind the plate". Verb1. Coat with a layer of metal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "plate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Etymology: Plate \Plate\, noun. [Old French plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, French plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, from plat flat, Greek. See Place, noun]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | 1. A planar body whose thickness is small compared with its other dimensions.2. A common name for the principal anode in an electron tube. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | For a woman to dream of plates, denotes that she will practise economy and win a worthy husband. If already married, she will retain her husband's love and respect by the wise ordering of his household. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | An electrode consisting of active mass and conductive carrier. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | Photographic material formed by coating a sensitized emulsion onto a sheet of glass. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A sheet of glass, metal, porcelain, or other material coated with a light-sensitive photographic emulsion. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geological | One of the huge sections which make up the Earth's crust. The plates are continuously moving. (references) |
| A slab of rigid lithosphere (crust and uppermost mantle) that moves over the asthenosphere. (references) | |
Industry | Flat glass of high quality formed by a process of continuous rolling or sometimes by the rolling of metal cast on a table and then ground and polished. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Plate (A). A race in which a prize is given out of the race fund, or from some other source, without any stakes being made by the owners of the horses engaged. Usually entrance money is required. (See Sweepstakes, Handicap, Plate, Selling Race, Weight-For-Age Race .) Plate, meaning silver, in the Spanish plata. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | A plate attached to a machine or apparatus, indicating not only the name of the maker and the number of the machine but also its technical specifications. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | The heavy gauge forms of flat rolled steel. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Specially designed cast-iron plate having channels for runner bricks, on which the ingot moulds are placed in the case of uphill casting. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Defective tinplate showing patches of dull surface. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. A flat iron or steel sheet laid around a mine-shaft collar, at the shaft bottom, or at any level station, to enable mine cars and other equipment to be easily turned and moved about. Also, a cast-iron plate with a circular ridge on which mine rail cars are turned at the junction of roads. b. A horizontal timber laid on a floor or sloping wall to receive a framework of timbers. c. A torsionally rigid thin segment of the Earth's lithosphere, which may be assumed to move horizontally and adjoins other lithosopheric platesalong zones of seismic activity. See also:plate tectonics. (references) |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | Any material used to make a printed impression by letterpress, gravure, or lithography. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | PLATE. Money, silver, prize. He is in for the plate; he has won the KEAT, i.e. is infected with the venereal disorder: a simile drawn from hofse-racing. When the plate fleet comes in; when money comes to hand. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A plate is a type of electrode that formed part of a vacuum tube. The plate is impressed with a positive charge so that it may capture and flow electrons within a circuit.
DiodeSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Plate."
Plate tectonics
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Plate tectonics (from the Greek for "builder", tekton) is a theory of geology developed to explain the phenomenon of continental drift. In the theory of plate tectonics the outermost part of the Earth's interior is made up of two layers, the outer lithosphere and the inner asthenosphere. Plate tectonic theory arose out of two separate geological observations: seafloor spreading and continental drift.
Key principles
The division of the Earth's interior into lithospheric and asthenospheric components is based on their mechanical differences. The lithosphere is cooler and more rigid, whilst the asthenosphere is hotter and mechanically weaker. This division should not be confused with the chemical subdivision of the Earth into (from innermost to outermost) core, mantle and crust.The key principle of plate tectonics is that the lithosphere exists as separate and distinct tectonic plates, which "float" on the fluid-like asthenosphere. Due to convective currents in the asthenosphere, the tectonic plates undergo motion in different directions. The point where one plate meets another is known as a plate boundary and these areas are commonly associated with geological events such as earthquakes and the creation of topographic features like mountains, volcanoes and oceanic trenches. Plate boundaries are the home of the majority of the world's active volcanoes with the Pacific Plate's Ring of Fire being most active and famous. These zones are discussed in further detail below.
Tectonic plates are broadly divisible into two groups: continental and oceanic plates. The distinction is based on the density of their constituent materials; oceanic plates are denser than continental plates due to their greater mafic mineral content. As a result, the oceanic plates generally lie below sea level, while the continental plates project above sea level (see isostasy for explanation of this principle, which is essentially a large-scale version of Archimedes' Bath).
Types of plate boundary
The different types of plate boundary are:
- Transform boundaries occur where plates slide, or perhaps more accurately grind, past each other along transform-faults. The relative motion of the two plates is therefore either sinistral or dextral.
- Divergent boundaries occur where two plates slide apart from each other,
- Convergent boundaries (or active margins) occur where two plates slide towards each other commonly forming either a subduction zone (if one plate moves underneath the other) or an orogenic belt (if the two simply collide and compress).
- Plate boundary zones occur in more complex situations where three or more plates meet and exhibit a mixture of the above three boundary types.
Transform boundaries
The left- or right-lateral motion of one plate against another along transform or strike slip faults can cause highly visible surface effects. Because of friction, the plates cannot simply glide past each other. Rather, stress builds up in both plates and when it reaches a level that exceeds the slipping-point of rocks on either side of the transform-faults the accumulated potential energy is released as strain, or motion along the fault. The massive amounts of energy that are released are the cause of earthquakes, a common phenomenon along transform boundaries.A good example of this type of plate boundary is the San Andreas Fault complex, which is found in the western coast of North America and is one part of a highly complex system of faults in this area. At this location, the Pacific and North American plates move relative to each other such that the Pacific plate is moving North with respect to North America.
Divergent boundaries
At divergent boundaries, two plates move apart from each other and the space that this creates is filled with new crustal material sourced from molten magma that forms below. The driving force that moves the plates apart is not fully understood. Two theories are the ridge-push and slab-pull hypotheses. In the former, upwelling convective currents in the mantle bring hot material close to the Earth's surface. As it reaches shallow levels it starts to melt and is expelled at the divergent boundary, thus forcing the plates apart. The second hypothesis suggests that, if one end of a plate is being subducted at a convergent boundary, the downgoing slab of material will exert a stress on the other end, thus pulling it away.The genesis of divergent boundaries is sometimes thought to be associated with the phenomenon known as hotspots. Here, exceedingly large convective cells bring very large quantities of hot asthenospheric material near the surface and the kinetic energy is though to be sufficient to break apart the lithosphere. The hot spot believed to have created the Mid-Atlantic Ridge system currently underlies Iceland which is widening at a rate of a few centimetres per century.
Divergent boundaries are typified in oceanic lithosphere by the rifts of the oceanic ridge system, including the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and, in continentental lithosphere by rift valleys such as the famous East-African Rift. Divergent boundaries can create massive fault zones in the oceanic ridge system. Spreading is generally not uniform, so where spreading rates of adjacent ridge blocks are different massive transform faults occur. These are the Fracture Zones, many bearing names, that are a major source of submarine earthquakes. A sea floor map will show a rather strange pattern of blocky structures that are separated by linear features perpendicular to the ridge axis. If one views the sea floor between the fracture zones as conveyor belts carrying the ridge on each side of the rift away from the spreading center the action becomes clear. Crest depths of the old ridges, parallel to the current spreading center, will be older and deeper (due to thermal contraction and subsidence).
It is at mid-ocearn ridges that one of the key pieces of evidence forcing acceptance of the sea-floor spreading hypothesis was found. Airborne geomagnetic surveys showed a strange pattern of symmetrical magnetic reversals on opposite sides of ridge centres. The pattern was far too regular to be coincidental as the widths of the opposing bands were too closely matched. Scientists had been studying polar reversals and the link was made. The magnetic banding directly corresponds with the Earth's polar reversals. This was confirmed by measuring the ages of the rocks within each band. In reality the banding furnishes a map in time and space of both spreading rate and polar reversals.
Convergent boundaries
The nature of a convergent boundary depends on the type of lithosphere in the plates that are colliding. Where a dense oceanic plate collides with a less-dense continental plate, the oceanic plate is typically thrust underneath, forming a subduction zone. At the surface, the topographic expression is commonly an oceanic trench on the oceanic side, and a mountain range on the continental side.An example of a continental-oceanic subduction zone is the area along the western coast of South America where the oceanic Nazca plate is being suducted beneath the continental South American Plate. Where two continental plates collide, the effect is for the plates to crumple and compress, creating extensive mountain ranges, such as is occurring at the Indian and Eurasian plate-boundary with the Himalaya.
History and Impact
Continental drift was first proposed in 1912 by Alfred Wegener who noticed the similarity in shape of the coasts of Africa and South America. His ideas were not taken seriously by geologists who pointed out that there was no mechanism for continental drift.This changed radically in the 1960's, and was prompted by a number of discoveries, most notably the Mid-Atlantic ridge. The acceptance of the theories of continental drift and sea floor spreading (the two key elements of plate tectonics) can be compared to the Copernican revolution in astronomy (see Nicolaus Copernicus). Within a matter of only several years geophysics and geology in specific were revolutionized.
The parallel is striking: just as Pre Copernican astronomy was highly descriptive but still able to make predictions, pre-tectonic plate geological theories described what was observed but struggled to provide any fundamental mechanisms. The problem lay in the question "how?". Before acceptance of plate tectonics, geology in particular was trapped in a 'pre-Copernican' box.
However, by comparison to astronomy the geological revolution was much more sudden. What had been rejected for decades by any respectable scientific journal was eagerly accepted within a few short years in the 1960s and 1970s. Any geological description before this had been highly descriptive. All the rocks were described and assorted reasons, sometimes in excruciating detail, were given for why they were where they are. The descriptions are still valid. The reasons, however, today sound much like pre-Copernican astronomy.
One simply has to read the pre-plate descriptions of why the Alps or Himalaya exist to see the difference. In an attempt to answer "how" questions like "How can rocks that are clearly marine in origin exist thousands of meters above sea-level in the Dolomites?", or "How did the convex and concave margins of the Alpine chain form?", any true insight was hidden by complexity that boiled down to technical jargon without much fundamental insight as to the underlying mechanics.
With plate tectonics answers quickly fell into place or a path to the answer became clear. Collisions of converging plates had the force to lift sea floor into thin atmospheres. The cause of marine trenches oddly placed just off island arcs or continents and their associated volcanoes became clear when the processes of subduction at converging plates were understood.
Mysteries were no longer mysteries. Forests of complex and obtuse answers were swept away. Why were there striking parallels in the geology of parts of Africa and South America? Why did Africa and South America look strangely like two pieces that should fit to anyone having done a jigsaw puzzle? Look at some pre tectonics explanations for complexity. For simplicity and one that explained a great deal more look at plate tectonics. A great rift valley, like the one now on the other side of Africa, had split into the Atlantic--and was still at work.
We have inherited some of the old terminology, but the underlying concept is as radical and simple as "The Earth moves" was in astronomy.
See: Alfred Wegener, List of Tectonic Plate Interactions, obduction, subduction
External links
- U.S. Geological Survey Web Page Links
- This Dynamic Earth provides an excellent overview of the subject.
- Understanding plate motions
- plate map
- Artist's cross section illustrating the main types of plate boundaries
- "Ring of Fire", Plate Tectonics, Sea-Floor Spreading, Subduction Zones, "Hot Spots"
- J. Tuzo Wilson: Discovering transforms and hotspots
- Active volcanoes
- San Andreas fault information
- Academic research sites.
- Interactive movie showing 750 myr (million years) of global tectonic activity.
- More movies over smaller regions and smaller time scales.
- The Paleomap Project: numerous maps and movies.
- Web Dogs tectonic reconstructions and interactive movies.
- Exceptionally detailed tectonic history of Wisconsin.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Plate tectonics."
Synonyms: Plate
Synonyms: catcher (n), collection plate (n), dental plate (n), denture (n), home (n), home plate (n), photographic plate (n), plateful (n), scale (n), shell (n). (additional references)Synonyms within Context: Plate
Context Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). Covering
Coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar; wash; besmear, bedaub; anoint, do over; gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash; parget; lay it on thick.
Veneer, facing; overlay; plate, silver plate, gold plate, copper plate; engobe; ormolu; Sheffield plate; pavement; coating, paint; varnish; (resin) a; plating, barrel plating, anointing; Verb: enamel; epitaxial deposition, vapor deposition; ground, whitewash, plaster, spackel, stucco, compo; cerement; ointment; (grease).
Engraving
Printing; plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing, color printing, lithographic printing; type printing; three-color process.
Noun: engraving, chalcography; line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point, bur; etching, aquatinta; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography, lignography, glyptography, cerography, lithography, chromolithography, photolithography, zincography, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph, cerograph, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph, glyphograph, holograph.
Impression, print, engraving, plate; steelplate, copperplate; etching; mezzotint, aquatint, lithotint; cut, woodcut; stereotype, graphotype, autotype, heliotype.
Graver, burin, etching point, style; plate, stone, wood block, negative; die, punch, stamp.
Flatness
Plane; level; plate, platter, table, tablet, slab.
Food
Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana.
Layer
Verb: slice, shave, pare, peel; delaminate; plate, coat, veneer; cover.
Plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel; coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument; (covering); eschar.
Printing
Noun: printing; block printing, type- printing; plate printing; the press; (publication); composition.
Receptacle
Plate, platter, dish, trencher, calabash, porringer, potager, saucer, pan, crucible; glassware, tableware; vitrics.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. Modern Usage: Plate
Domain Usage Screenplays
Just put your pickle on everybody's plate college boy and leave the hard stuff to me. (Dirty Dancing; writing credit: Eleanor Bergstein)
And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)
Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp (Repo Man; writing credit: Alex Cox)
Now let's say the Lord's Prayer 40 times, but first, let's pass the collection plate! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)
Name a fish plate after me (The Gravy Train; writing credit: Bill Kerby; Terrence Malick)
Lyrics
Ya in tha kitchen trying ta fix us a hot plate (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac)
Jigga give out food for thought dog, get a plate (Guilty Until Proven Innocent; performing artist: Jay-Z)
And left me with the an empty plate (Are You Happy Now?; performing artist: MICHELLE BRANCH)
Give me a shovel and put some feed on my plate (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince)
And then you look at your plate and your chicken's slowly rottin' ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang)
Movie/TV Titles
Pink Blue Plate (1971)
The Queen's Plate (1959)
Blue Plate Symphony (1954)
Little Dutch Plate (1935)
The China Plate (1931)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
Commercial Usage: Plate
Domain Title References
Chubu Steel Plate Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)
The Official Parent's Sourcebook on Growth Plate Fractures (reference)
The World Market for Addressing Machines and Address Plate Embossing Machines: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)
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Books
The Cooper Clinic Solution to the Diet Revolution: Step Up to the Plate (reference)
Anolis Lizards of the Caribbean: Ecology, Evolution, and Plate Tectonics (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution) (reference)
Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860 (colour plate books) (reference)
Rick Bayless Mexico: One Plate at a Time (reference)
Euronorm: Ultrasonic Testing of Steel Plate of Thickness Equal to or Greater Than 6 Mm, Reflection Method (reference)
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Periodicals
Nickel Plate Road Magazine (reference)
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Theater & Movies
Music
There's a Pea on My Plate (reference)
(more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
High Tech
BOGEN 3030 PAN TILT HEAD WTH QUICK RELEASE PLATE (reference)
InFocus Cablewizard Extension Cable Wall Plate (reference)
Startech 2 Outlet USB Plate PC Motherboards 8/10 Pin (reference)
(more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Consumer Goods
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
Image Slideshow: Plate
Photo Album: Plate
Thumbnail Description & Credit Thumbnail Description & Credit A hot pink plate on a light pink-checkered tablecloth. On the plate is a tall, conical glass of a yellow liquid, garnished with a lemon slice, some purple grapes and a straw. In front of the glass is a long stirring spoon. Behind it are a whole pineapple and a green bowl with 2 whole lemons. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.
(4) color slides show different types of cheese. (3) large single wedge of swiss cheese, (1) three rectangular pieces of white cheddar cheese displayed on a plate. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).
Sabouraud's dextrose agar plate culture of soil isolate of Histoplasma capsulatum showing typical fuzzy appearance of mold colony. Credit: CDC.
Blood agar plate culture of Brucella suis. Credit: CDC.
Plane table alidade Plate IV, Fig. No. 10, Appendix No. 8, Report of Superintendent ... 1894, p. 276. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
Magnetometer and altazimuth instrument Plate III, Fig. No. 9, Appendix No. 8, Report of Superintendent ... 1894, p. 276. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
Mission of San Diego, Plate XII. In: Reports of Explorations and Surveys .... Vol. 5, p. 40. Commonly known as Pacific Railroad Surveys. Call Number F593 .U58. Credit: America's Coastlines.
Los Angeles, Plate X. In: Reports of Explorations and Surveys .... Vol. 5, p. 35. Commonly known as Pacific Railroad Surveys. Call Number F593 .U58. Credit: America's Coastlines.
The BELGICA anchored at Mount William. In: "Resultats du Voyage du S. Y. BELGICA en 1897-1898-1899 .... Rapports Scientifiques ... Travaux Hydrographiques et Instructions Nautiques" by G. Lecointe, 1903. P. 110. Plate XI. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
Ice flows with ice bergs to the horizon. In: "Resultats du Voyage du S. Y. BELGICA en 1897-1898-1899 .... Oceanographie Les Glaces Glace de Mer et Banquises" par Henryk Arctowski. 1908. P. 55. Plate I. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.
Digital Photo Gallery: Plate
"Grandma T's Sushi Plate" by Jef T
Commentary: "Sushi grandma Taniguchi made.""Sausages on a plate" by Carlos Villela
Commentary: "Boiled sausages on a plate."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.Sounds Captioned with "Plate".
Play Caption Break; breaking; shattered; dishes; dish; china; teacup; plate; saucer; bowl. Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. Familiar Quotations: Plate
Author Quotation Emily Dickinson
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. Ted Williams
God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own. Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
Use in Literature: Plate
Title Author Quote Sylvie and Bruno
Carroll, Lewis
Then I supplied myself with a plate of something solid and a glass of something fluid, and found a place next to Lady Muriel
Les Miserables
Hugo, Victor
Madame Magloire brought in a plate and set it on the table
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James
He sat looking at the two prints of butter on his plate but could not eat the damp bread
Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John
She placed three slices of bread on each plate.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
Non-Fiction Usage: Plate
Subject Topic Quote Health
The human nervous system develops from a small, specialized plate of cells on the surface of the embryo. (references)
Plate let transfusions are most commonly given if the patient is bleeding or is in a situation that will predispose to bleeding, such as preparing for surgery. (references)
The health care provider may recommend an oral appliance, also called a splint or bite plate, which is a plastic guard that fits over the upper or lower teeth. (references)
Business
Its equipment include high temperature, rapid quench vacuum furnaces and an automated platinum plate system. (references)
The platinum plate system will apply a layer of platinum to the surfaces of turbine blades prior to the application of an aluminide coating. (references)
In contrast, Argentine imports of galvanized plate reached $ 10.7 million last year, including significant US$ sales and share growth by Brazilian suppliers. (references)
Economic History
Pakistan
The plant cost US$32 million and has a production capacity of 120,000 tons of tin plate per annum. (references)
Pakistan
In June 1999, the first tin plate making plant of Pakistan, Siddqsons Tin Plate had started commercial production. (references)
Japan
The growth in import demand in 1999 was largely driven by continued strong HRI/HMR demand, particularly from fast food beef bowl chains, hamburger steaks at family restaurants, `yakiniku - Korean style barbecue' at Korean style barbecue chains and beef barbecue lunch box sold at takeout lunch box chains and convenience store chains, including inexpensive frozen beef parts like short plate, brisket and clod. (references)
Indigenous People
Gabon
NGO workers visited more than a dozen villages and found that most Pygmies there lived in conditions tantamount to slavery, working on plantations for "masters" for one plate of rice and a few cents per day. (references)
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
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)
Lexicography
Devil's Dictionary
SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam. Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.
Spoken Usage: Plate
Speaker Phrase(s) Bono
Investment in the future. Help is a good word. And I know if Americans understand that their money is going to be spent well, they are ready to step up to the plate. Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
Usage Frequency: Plate
"Plate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.81% of the time. "Plate" is used about 3,597 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of Speech Percent Usage per
100 Million WordsRank in English Noun (singular) 89.81% 3,231 2,936 Noun (proper) 5.8% 209 21,011 Lexical Verb (base form) 3.69% 133 27,614 Lexical Verb (infinitive) 0.36% 13 97,576 Noun (common) 0.33% 12 101,599 Total 100.00% 3,597 N/A Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Name Usage Frequency: Plate
The following table summarizes the usage of "plate" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
Name Usage/Gender Usage per 100
million PersonsRank in USA Plate Last name 300 23,490 Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. Usage in Company Names: Plate
Country Name Country Name Japan Chubu Steel Plate Co., Ltd.
South Africa Plate Glass & Shatterprufe Industries Limited
(more examples...) Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions: Plate
Expressions using "plate": absorber plate ♦ absorbing plate ♦ access plate ♦ address plate ♦ adress plate ♦ albumin plate ♦ armor plate ♦ armour plate ♦ baffle plate ♦ basal plate ♦ base plate ♦ bed plate ♦ bilge plate ♦ Black plate ♦ blanking plate ♦ blood plate ♦ Boiler plate ♦ book plate ♦ bottom plate ♦ bottom pouring plate ♦ brass plate ♦ breaker plate ♦ breast plate ♦ cam plate ♦ casting plate ♦ Chain plate ♦ charge plate ♦ clamping plate ♦ cold salad plate ♦ collection plate ♦ contact plate ♦ cover plate ♦ crown plate ♦ Curb plate ♦ Cuttoo plate ♦ Dam plate ♦ Dead plate ♦ deflecting plate ♦ deflector plate ♦ dental plate ♦ dentale plate ♦ dessert plate ♦ Dial plate ♦ dinner plate ♦ dividing plate ♦ driving plate pin ♦ Dry plate ♦ electrotype plate ♦ End plate ♦ etched plate ♦ Ethmovomerine plate ♦ exchange plate ♦ exhausting plate ♦ Face plate ♦ Fashion plate ♦ Faure plate ♦ ferrotype plate ♦ finger plate ♦ Fish plate ♦ fixing plate ♦ flange plate ♦ flash plate ♦ Flue plate ♦ form plate ♦ fruit plate ♦ german plate ♦ glass side plate ♦ gold plate ♦ Ground plate ♦ Growth Plate ♦ guard plate ♦ guarded hot plate ♦ gusset plate ♦ Hair plate ♦ Hall plate ♦ Heel plate ♦ home plate ♦ horn plate ♦ horny plate ♦ hot plate ♦ Hour plate ♦ Index plate ♦ indexing plate ♦ indicating plate ♦ indicator plate ♦ Inner plate ♦ instruction plate ♦ iron plate ♦ isolating plate ♦ Junction plate ♦ knurled plate gasket ♦ licence plate ♦ license plate ♦ Loam plate ♦ Lock plate ♦ lower plate ♦ Madreporic plate ♦ master plate ♦ match plate ♦ metal plate ♦ minus plate. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage Beginning with "plate": plate-armour, plate-basket, plate-boundary, plate-clutch, plate-cover, plate-district, plate-frame, plate-fulls, Plate-gilled, plate-glass, plate-glass-windowed, plate-layer, plate-layers, plate-like, plate-making, plate-mark, plate-marks, plate-mines, plate-movements, plate-on-your-lap, plate-powder, plate-scrapings, plate-sized, plate-smashing, plate-spinner, plate-spinning, plate-table, plate-tectonic, plate-warmer, plate-winning.
Ending with "plate": helmet-plate, intra-plate, number-plate, parallel-plate, soup-plate, tin-plate, Tri-plate.
Containing "plate": Dry-plate process, end-plate effect.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. Frequency of Internet Keywords: 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 DayExpression Frequency
per Daylicense plate
1,901 decorative plate
211 nokia face plate
1,540 licence plate
206 license plate frame
829 vanity plate
198 plate
824 texas license plate
193 switch plate
574 paper plate
190 cell phone face plate
519 hot plate
181 name plate
488 license plate holder
180 plate tectonics
434 free license plate search
169 personalized license plate
410 license plate cover
148 collector plate
368 dinner plate
135 river plate
360 book plate
130 license plate search
336 license plate lookup
128 number plate
321 florida license plate
110 plate rack
300 wooden name plate
102 custom license plate
284 cake plate
99 diamond plate
268 private number plate
98 light switch plate
252 plastic plate
98 collectible plate
218 vanity license plate
97 switch plate cover
217 license plate numbers
97 wall plate
216 steel plate
97 Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. Modern Translation: Plate
Language Translations for "plate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. Afrikaans
plak (glue, sheet, slab, slice, stick), bord. (various references)
Albanian
pllakëz, pllakë kontinentale, pjatancë (charger, server), pjatë (course, cymbal, dish, paten), paftë (calk), meze (appetizer, breeze, refection, refreshment), arturina (valuable), bazë e protezës dentare, dhisk (salver), fletë libri i ilustruar, galvanizoj (electroplate, galvanize), gjellë (dish), koracë (armature, Armor, armor plate, armour, armour plate), koracoj, kromoj, anodë (anode), lastër, targë (license plate, number plate), nikeloj (nickel), nxjerr në lastër, qepër (lath), tabaka (chase, salver, server, tray, waiter), kupë (beaker, canakin, canikin, cannikin, canonry, canopy, cap, chalice, cornet, cup, cupping glass, goblet, heart, jorum, Mazer, mug, patella, rummer, torus, tumbler, winebowl). (various references)
Arabic
طلى بالنيكل (nickel), أدوات المائدة (service, set, tableware), اللوح الجداري, صحن (dish), صحن الكنيسة (body, nave), صنع كليشيه, صفح (amnesty, condone, excuse, forgive, forgiveness, laminate, pardon, remission), صفيحة (can, gill, hob, platelet, scoop, tablet), رقاقة (chip, flake, particle, wafer), طقم أسنان (denture, set of teeth), صفيحة (sheet), طلى بالفضة (silver), زين (apparel, bedeck, deck, dress, enhance, figure, gem, grace, hang, invest, ornament, paint, pattern, pipe, prettify, prink, smarten, trick, trim, varnish), تصفيح (lamination, plating), لوحة (doorplate, drawing, nameplate, painting, panel, picture, plaque, portrait, tablet), لوحةالسيارة, معدن نفيس (ore), كسا (array, attire, cake, clothe, coat, cover, drape, dress, encase, endue, equip, face, fur, garb, garment, gird, glaze, invest, overlay, panel, rig out, robe, sheathe, spread, suit, turn out), كليشية (block, cliche, engraving), طبق (apply, carry out, clench, close, dish, effect, enforce, live, operation, paten, practise, tray, waiter). (various references)
Asturian
platu. (various references)
Aymara
chuhua. (various references)
Basque
plater. (various references)
Bavarian
dälla. (various references)
Bemba
imbale. (various references)
Bulgarian
позлатен метал (cladmetal, vermeil), дискос, електротипна плака, анод (anode), лист (leaf, page, sheet, web), бронирам (armour), блюдо (course, plat), благороден метал (ore), посребрявам (become like silver, silver, silver plate), посребрен метал (vermeil), никелирам (nickel), позлатявам (gild, gold plate, load with money, overgild), обковавам (iron, sheathe), позлата (gilding, gilt, gold leaf, plating), плочка (planch, table, tile), плоча (flag, flagstone, slab, slate, table), пластинка (cleat, disc, lamella, lamina, wafer), платка, плака (table), плакирам, изкуствена челюст, илюстрация на отделна страница, покривам с тънък пласт метал, купа (bowl, cup, heart, mow, pewter, pot), сребро (argent, silver), стъкло (crystal, glass), стереотипна форма, стереотипна плака, стереотипирам (stereotype), щитче (scutum), щит (aegis, riddle, screen, shield), чиния (dish, pan, plateful), табелка (placard, tablet), електротипна форма, куверт (cover), състезание за купа, капаче на коляното (knee pan, kneecap), галванизирам (dip, galvanize, zinc), главно ястие, главно ядене, главно блюдо, варак (foil, gilt, gold leaf), основна греда (groundsel, rib), обшивам (lace, lag, sheathe), обковка (facing, mounting, setting), табела (facia, fascia, sign, signboard). (various references)
Catalan
plat (dish). (various references)
Cebuano
plato. (various references)
Chamorro
platu. (various references)
Chinese
牌 (cards, game pieces, signboard, tablet), 碟 (dish), 柈 , 板材, 板 (board, plank, slab). (various references)
Czech
talíř. (various references)
Danish
tallerken (concave disc, disc, disk, plough disc). (various references)
Dutch
plaat (bank, dial, disc, disk, grammophone disc, image, picture, record, sandbank, sheet, slab), schotel (course, dish, platter, saucer), fotografische plaat (photographic plate, photoplate). (various references)
Ecuadorian Quechua
latu (dishes). (various references)
Esperanto
plako, plado (course, dish, platter), telero. (various references)
Faeroese
tallerkur, fat (course, dish, platter), borðiskur. (various references)
Farsi
پلاک (Plaque), متورق کردن , لوحه (Brede, Plaque, Signboard, Slab, Tablet), لوح (Brede, Table, Tablet), ورقه یاصفحه , ابکاری فلزی کردن (Galvanize), روکش کردن (Coat, Face), روکش (Blanket, Casing, Coat, Slip, Veneer), بقدریک بشقاب (Plateful), بشقاب (Dish, Vessel). (various references)
Finnish
levy (board, lacquered board, marker, plaque, sheet, tablet, wall plaque), lautanen. (various references)
French
assiette (plateful), plaque (plaque), plat (platter), plaquer, planche (plank), cliché (printing plate). (various references)
French Canadian
plat. (various references)
