Word Meanings - PLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A piece of money, usually silver money. "Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket." Shak. 7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a

Additional info about word: PLATE

A piece of money, usually silver money. "Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket." Shak. 7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate. 8. A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates. 9. That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc. (more info) plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. plat 1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate. 2. Metallic armor composed of broad pieces. Mangled . . . through plate and mail. Milton. 3. Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver. 4. Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold. 5. A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table. 6. Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PLATE)

• Decoction
• Concoction
• dish
• compound
• plate
• platter
• mess
• extract

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PLATE)

• Resolve
• analyze

Related words: (words related to PLATE)

• PLATEFUL
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• RESOLVENT
  Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
• ANALYZER
  The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, analyzes.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• PLATEN
  The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. The movable table of a machine tool,
• PLATE-GILLED
  Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.
• ANALYZE
  To subject to analysis; to resolve into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to
• PLATE
  A piece of money, usually silver money. "Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket." Shak. 7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a
• RESOLVED
  Having a fixed purpose; determined; resolute; -- usually placed after its noun; as, a man resolved to be rich. That makes him a resolved enemy. Jer. Taylor. I am resolved she shall not settle here. Fielding.
• PLATERESQUE
  Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.
• EXTRACT
  1. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid
• RESOLVE
  To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of. Hutton. (more info) relax, enfeeble; pref. re- re- + solvere to loosen, dissolve: cf. F. résoudare
• PLATTER
  One who plats or braids.
• EXTRACTIVE
  1. Capable of being extracted. "Thirty grains of extractive matter." Kirwan. 2. Tending or serving to extract or draw out. Certain branches of industry are conveniently designated extractive: e.g., agriculture, pastoral and mining pursuits, cutting
• EXTRACTIFORM
  Having the form, appearance, or nature, of an extract.
• DECOCTION
  1. The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues. In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom. Bacon. 2. An extract got from a body by boiling it in water. If the plant be boiled in
• RESOLVER
  1. That which decomposes, or dissolves. Boyle. 2. That which clears up and removes difficulties, and makes the mind certain or determined. Bp. Burnet. 3. One who resolves, or formal a firm purpose.
• WET PLATE
  A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• VEILED PLATE
  A fogged plate.
• SPLATTERDASH
  Uproar. Jamieson.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• GOULARDS EXTRACT
  An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.
• TERNEPLATE
  Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of three metals.
• PRERESOLVE
  To resolve beforehand; to predetermine. Sir E. Dering.
• BREASTPLATE
  A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.