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plate

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plate1 /pleɪt/ ●●● S2 W2 noun
1  food 食物 [countableC]
a) DFUa flat and usually round dish that you eat from or serve food on 盤，碟
The plates were piled high with rice.
盤子裏都堆滿了米飯。
a dinner plate
餐碟
b) (also plateful)AMOUNT the amount of food that is on a plate 〔食物〕一盤[碟]所盛之量
plate of
He’s eaten a whole plate of french fries.
他吃了整整一盤炸薯條。
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)
當表示菜肴時，不要用 plate，而要用 dish: the chef who created this dish (不說 this plate) 首創這道菜肴的廚師
2  sign 標牌 [countableC]TTC a flat piece of metal with words or numbers on it, for example on a door or a car 〔印有文字或數字的〕金屬牌；門牌；車牌
The brass plate on the door said ‘Dr Rackman’.
黃銅門牌上寫着“雷克曼博士”。
number/license/registration plate (=on a car) 車牌
Did anyone see the car’s license plate?
有誰看到那輛汽車的車牌了嗎？
→ L-plate, nameplate
3. have a lot/enough on your plate informal to have a lot of problems to deal with or problems to worry about 要應付的問題很多，要操心的事情很多
Examples from the Corpus
have a lot/enough on your plate• Beckham may have enough on his plate attempting to recapture his early-season form without being burdened with any extra responsibilities.
4  protective covering 保護性覆蓋物 [countableC]
a) technicalHBA one of the thin sheets of bone, horn etc that covers and protects the outside of some animals 〔骨質、角質等的〕盾片，鱗甲
b) PMWa thin sheet of metal used to protect something 金屬護板[片]
metal/steel/iron plates
The shoes had metal plates attached to the heels.
那雙鞋後跟釘有金屬片。
5. earth’s surface 地球表面 [countableC] technicalHEG one of the very large sheets of rock that form the surface of the Earth 板塊 → plate tectonics
6  gold/silver 金/銀
a) gold/silver plateHCM ordinary metal with a thin covering of gold or silver 鍍金/鍍銀的金屬
b) DFU[uncountableU] things such as plates, cups, forks, or knives made of gold or silver 金/銀餐具
7  hand/give/offer somebody something on a plate to let someone get or achieve something easily, without much effort from them 把某事物拱手送給某人
I worked hard for what I’ve got. It wasn’t handed to me on a plate.
我現在擁有的一切都是辛苦掙來的，並不是人家白送的。
8  pictures/photos 圖片/照片 [countableC]
a) TCNa sheet of metal that has been cut or treated in a special way so that words or pictures can be printed from its surface 〔印刷用的〕金屬版，印版
copper printing plates
銅印版
b) TCNPICTUREa picture in a book, printed on good-quality paper and usually coloured 〔書中的〕整頁（彩色）插圖
c) TCPa thin sheet of glass used especially in the past in photography, with chemicals on it that are sensitive to light 〔尤指過去攝影用的〕感光板[片]
9. DSBbaseball 棒球 [countableC usually singular] the place where the person hitting the ball stands 本壘板
10  COMPETITION 競賽the ... Plate used in the names of sports competitions or races in which the winner gets a silver plate 銀碟賽〔用於獎品爲銀碟的競賽名稱中〕
This horse won the Galway Plate.
這匹馬在戈爾韋銀碟賽中獲勝了。
Examples from the Corpus
the ... Plate• She had put the glass plates on a green wicker table, with a sprinkle of white lace cloth.• The plates of the ventral interradial areas are not as coarse as those on the dorsal surface.• The dorsal arm plates are triangular and separated.• The ventral arm plates are an irregular pentagonal or hexagonal shape, often keeled, with the distal edge sometimes indented.• This would not have served for vaults, and the stamped lead plate remained the more usual item in such instances.• He also believes the plate should be a little wider to account for today's stronger batters.• Marquis Grissom already had committed himself and was dashing for the plate.
11  teeth 牙齒 [countableC]
a) MHa thin piece of plastic shaped to fit inside a person’s mouth, into which false teeth are fixed 假牙床，假牙托
b) MI British EnglishBrE a thin piece of plastic with wires fixed to it, that some people wear in their mouth to make their teeth straight 牙箍，牙齒矯正器 SYN British English brace
→ hotplate
Examples from the Corpus
plate• The engine model number is on a plate just above the spark plug.• When the flames die out, transfer the rabbit to a plate.• The lateral and ventral arm plates have distinctive transverse ridges most noticeable in dry specimens.• The ventral interradial areas are covered with large plates like those of the dorsal surface, spinelets may be present.• Police found the car in Knoxville, Tenn., with an Arizona license plate in the trunk.• Too many plates and you're asking for trouble.• Place chili on plate and top with quail.• The reptile's body is covered with horny protective plates.• a salad plate• Doctors had to insert a steel plate to repair the damage done to his head.• This, of course, relates directly to the plate histories of the two continents.• A little boy was washing plates and cups in a bowl of water glutinous with grease, food matter and drowned flies.
plate of• The waiter brought us two heaping plates of spaghetti.
number/license/registration plate• The seven were riding in a van with Missouri license plates that pulled into the path of the tractor-trailer rig.• And remember that it is illegal to drive with an obscured license plate.• What better suspect than some one with an out-of-state license plate, parked so very near the scene of the crime?• A parent who was taking her children to school noted down the number plate.• Cut out two thin rectangles for the number plates and leave to dry on non-stick paper before securing on.• He said he was a but I had the license plate number.• The date on the license plate was 1967, which would make Billy Pilgrim forty-four years old.• Jim was so upset that he sold the burgundy car - and transferred the number plate to the Rolls.
metal/steel/iron plates• Or magnetic rugs for men who have metal plates in their heads?• In Sheffield they made steel plates and armoured plates for their ships.• As for the ships, steel plates meant to repair them have found their way into the homes of Vladivostok's elite.• Four rounds after people fall in, the metal plates close again.• Eleven of the steel plates themselves, incidentally, are also included in the show.• His right and left wrist were the worst affected and his body rejected the metal plates and wires inserted into them.• Telford drove piles in behind the lock walls and bolted together the iron plates to make the lock both stable and watertight.• It met the wood in massive cylinders, thirteen feet across, made of inch-thick wrought-iron plates riveted together.
plate2 verb [transitiveT]
be plated with something 
a) DCBto be covered with a thin covering of gold or silver 用〔金或銀〕覆鍍，鍍上〔金或銀〕
a beautiful necklace, plated with 22-carat gold
一條漂亮的22開鍍金項鏈
gold-plated/silver-plated
a gold-plated watch
鍍金手表
b) COVERto be covered in sheets of a hard material such as metal 用〔金屬板等堅硬材料〕覆蓋
The ship had been heavily plated with protective sheets.
那艘船加裝了厚厚的護板。
Examples from the Corpus
be plated with something• The President's limousine is plated with armor.• Even their faucets had been plated with gold.• All magnetic material was excluded, and the insulating elements of the balance were plated with metal to eliminate any electrostatic effects.• They were fitted with special locks, and the roof, sides, ends, and floor were plated with steel.
Examples from the Corpus
plate• To plate, look for the instructions in your manual, it is quite easy, once you are threaded up.• The jawless fish, even though their heads were heavily plated with bone, had chinks in their armour to accommodate eyes.
Origin plate1
1. (1400-1500) French plat “plate, dish”, from plat “flat”, from Vulgar Latin plattus, probably from Greek platys “broad, flat”
2. (1200-1300) Old French plat “flat”
3. (1300-1400) Partly from Old French plat “plate, piece of silver”, partly from Old Spanish plata “silver”
plate1 nounplate2 verb
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