n.

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

   那孩子很快把自己盤子裡的食物吃完了。

2. 一盤食物[C]
   He had a plate of beef for lunch.

   他午餐吃了一盤牛肉。

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

   這船是用鋼板造的。

4. 貴金屬；銀條[U]
5. 門牌；（醫生等的）名牌；（汽車等的）車牌[C]
6. 鍍金（或鍍銀）的金屬製品[U]
7. （書籍的）整頁插圖[C]
   The book has several pictured plates.

   這本書有好幾頁插圖。

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

    教堂用的金銀器皿都鎖起來了。

13. 【電子】陽極；極板[C]
14. 【棒】投手板[C]
15. 【棒】本壘[the S]
16. （賽馬的）金（銀）獎杯[the S]

vt.

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

   她丈夫給她買了一隻鍍金手錶。

2. 給……裝鋼板；給……裝甲
3. 【印】把（鉛字等）製成印版
4. 用金屬板固定
5. 把……製成平板（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.