plate

From Wiktionary
plate is on the Basic English 850 List.
plant - plate - play

Pronunciation[change]

Noun[change]

Singular
plate

Plural
plates

A shelf full of plates
  1. (countable) A plate is a hard flat thing, especially round ones that we put food on.
    He ate everything on his plate.
    The name plate on the door said, "Tanaka".

Verb[change]

Plain form
plate

Third-person singular
plates

Past tense
plated

Past participle
plated

Present participle
plating

  1. If you plate food, you place the food on a plate.
  2. If you plate A with B, you cover the surface of A with a thin coat of B.
    This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.