plate 1 S2 W2 / pleɪt / 名词

1 food [可数名词]

a) a flat and usually round dish that you eat from or serve food on :

The plates were piled high with rice.

a dinner plate

b) ( also plateful ) the amount of food that is on a plate

plate of

He’s eaten a whole plate of french fries. ► 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)

2 sign [可数名词] a flat piece of metal with words or numbers on it, for example on a door or a car :

The brass plate on the door said ‘Dr Rackman’.

number/license/registration plate (= on a car )

Did anyone see the car’s license plate? → 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

4 protective covering [可数名词]

a) technical one of the thin sheets of bone, horn etc that covers and protects the outside of some animals

b) a thin sheet of metal used to protect something

metal/steel/iron plates

The shoes had metal plates attached to the heels.

5 earth’s surface [可数名词] technical one of the very large sheets of rock that form the surface of the Earth → plate tectonics

6 gold/silver

a) gold/silver plate ordinary metal with a thin covering of gold or silver

b) [不可数名词] things such as plates, cups, forks, or knives made of gold or silver

7 hand/give/offer somebody something on a plate to let someone get or achieve something easily, without much effort from them :

I worked hard for what I’ve got. It wasn’t handed to me on a plate.

8 pictures/photos [可数名词]

a) a sheet of metal that has been cut or treated in a special way so that words or pictures can be printed from its surface :

copper printing plates

b) a picture in a book, printed on good-quality paper and usually coloured

c) a thin sheet of glass used especially in the past in photography, with chemicals on it that are sensitive to light

9 baseball [可数名词，通常单数] the place where the person hitting the ball stands

10 competition the … Plate used in the names of sports competitions or races in which the winner gets a silver plate :

This horse won the Galway Plate.

11 teeth [可数名词]

a) a thin piece of plastic shaped to fit inside a person’s mouth, into which false teeth are fixed

b) British English a thin piece of plastic with wires fixed to it, that some people wear in their mouth to make their teeth straight 同义词 brace British English

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