n.

1. 盘子，盆，碟[C]
   The child soon finished the food on his plate.

   那孩子很快把自己盘子里的食物吃完了。

2. 一盘食物[C]
   He had a plate of beef for lunch.

   他午餐吃了一盘牛肉。

3. 金属板，薄板，玻璃板[C]
   The ship was made of steel plates.

   这船是用钢板造的。

4. 贵金属；银条[U]
5. 门牌；（医生等的）名牌；（汽车等的）车牌[C]
6. 镀金（或镀银）的金属制品[U]
7. （书籍的）整页插图[C]
   The book has several pictured plates.

   这本书有好几页插图。

8. 【印】版，印版[C]
9. 【医】假牙托，托牙床[S1]
10. 【摄】底片，感光板[C]
11. （教堂中的）捐款盘[the S]
12. 金（银）餐具[U]
    All the church plate has been locked up.

    教堂用的金银器皿都锁起来了。

13. 【电子】阳极；极板[C]
14. 【棒】投手板[C]
15. 【棒】本垒[the S]
16. （赛马的）金（银）奖杯[the S]

vt.

1. 镀；电镀[（+with）]
   Her husband bought her a gold-plated watch.

   她丈夫给她买了一只镀金手表。

2. 给……装钢板；给……装甲
3. 【印】给……制铅版
4. 用版固定
5. 把……制成平板（或薄板）

n.

1. a flat dish, typically circular, from which food is eaten or served.
   ▸N. Amer. a main course of a meal.
   ▸Austral./NZ a plate of food contributed by a guest to a social gathering.
2. any shallow dish, especially one used for collecting donations in a church.
   ▸Biology  a shallow glass dish on which a culture may be grown.
3. bowls, cups, and other utensils made of gold or silver.
   ▸a silver or gold dish or trophy awarded as a prize.
4. a thin, flat sheet or strip of metal or other material, typically one used to join or strengthen or forming part of a machine.
   ▸a small, flat piece of metal bearing a name or inscription, designed to be fixed to a wall or door.
   ▸short for number plate.
   ▸Baseball  short for home plate.
   ▸a horizontal timber laid along the top of a wall to support the ends of joists or rafters.
   ▸a light horseshoe for a racehorse.
5. Botany  & Zoology  a thin, flat organic structure or formation:
   fused bony plates.
   ▸Geology  each of the several rigid pieces of the earth's lithosphere which together make up the earth's surface.
6. a sheet of metal or other material bearing an image of type or illustrations from which multiple copies are printed.
   ▸a printed photograph or illustration in a book.
   ▸a thin sheet of metal or glass coated with a light-sensitive film on which an image is formed, used in larger or older types of camera.
7. a thin piece of metal that acts as an electrode in a capacitor, battery, or cell.
   ▸N. Amer. the anode of a thermionic valve.

v.

1. cover (a metal object) with a thin coating of a different metal.
   ▸cover with plates of metal for decoration or protection.
2. serve or arrange on a plate.
3. Baseball  score or cause to score (a run or runs).
4. Biology  inoculate (cells or infective material) on to a culture plate, especially with the object of isolating a particular strain of microorganisms or estimating viable cell numbers.