plate – English noun declension

English noun forms of plate

Noun: plate
Singularplate
Pluralplates

Sample Sentences

  • I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
  • A valuable collection of silver plate was donated to the museum.
  • I ate a plate of beans.
  • The meat plate was particularly tasty.
  • With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.
  • The most important and most expensive part of any solar cell is a silicon plate.
  • He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
  • He was confronted by two knights in full plate.
  • He hewd, and lasht, and foynd, and thondred blowes,
  • And euery way did seeke into his life,
  • Ne plate, ne male could ward so mighty throwes,
  • But yeilded passage to his cruell knife. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 248:]
  • Two potent Thrones, that to be less then Gods
  • Disdain’d, but meaner thoughts learnd in thir flight,
  • Mangl’d with gastly wounds through Plate and Maile. [1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 366-368:]
  • The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull.
  • If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.
  • The tea was served in the plate.
  • The silver ore of pure Charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good Qualities—whereas the sentimental French Plate I use instead of it makes just as good a shew—and pays no tax. [1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.i:]
  • We finished making the plates this morning.
  • "Do you really mean me to go on with plates for all the high values up to the thousand pound printing?" [1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:]
  • Sit down and give your plates a rest.
  • There was a close play at the plate.
  • Our planet's crust is split into eight major plates and many minor plates. [2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:]
  • Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.
  • The SAPI plate in his vest protected him from the bullet's impact.
  • More plates means more dates!

Etymology

1. From Middle English plate, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato.
2. (foot): Cockney rhyming slang, from "plates of meat" for "feet". See: Middle English Nouns 'plate', Spanish Nouns 'plato'.

Verbs referencing "plate"

Spanish Nouns plata, English Nouns place, English Nouns plat, Spanish Nouns plato, Dutch Nouns plateau, Czech Nouns plát.