{i} flat dish for serving food; portion; dishes; covering, coating; board; name plate, small board inscribed with a name
the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws; "a catcher needs a lot of protective equipment"; "he plays behind the plate"
disapproval If you say that someone has things handed to them on a plate, you disapprove of them because they get good things easily. Even the presidency was handed to him on a plate. be plated with sth a to be covered with a thin covering of gold or silver
A term used to describe a sheet-like magnetic source body with limited vertical dimension That is, its thickness may range from 0 1 to 1 0 times its depth-to-top Its anomaly character is similar to that of a set of dipoles
Also known as tectonic plate, this is the name for a piece of the earth's crust that is separated from other pieces of crust by fractures in the earth's surface