plate
Pronunciation
[change]Noun
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- (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
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Third-person singular |
Past tense |
Past participle |
Present participle |
- If you plate food, you place the food on a plate.
- 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.