Noun

(en noun)

One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.

* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)

Such was the book from whose pages she sang.

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One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.

A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.

(label) The type set up for printing a page.

(label) A web page.

(label) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.

(British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.

(US) A boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.

(in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.

A boy child.

* 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)

A doghter hadde they bitwixe]] hem two / Of twenty yeer, with-outen any mo, / Savinge a child that was of half-yeer age; / In [[cradle, cradel it lay and was a propre page .

A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.

A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania .

Noun

(en noun)

A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.

I filled my plate from the bountiful table.

(uncountable) Such dishes collectively.

The contents of such a dish.

I ate a plate of beans.

A course at a meal.

The meat plate was particularly tasty.

(figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities

With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate .

A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.

A clutch usually has two plates .

A vehicle license plate.

He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.

A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating

The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull .

A material covered with such a layer.

If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate .

(dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver.

The tea was served in the plate .

(weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.

(printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.

We finished making the plates this morning.

(printing, photography) An image or copy.

(printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.

(dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.

(construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.

(Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".

Sit down and give your plates a rest.

(baseball) Home plate.

There was a close play at the plate .

(geology) A tectonic plate.

(historical) Plate armour.

He was confronted by two knights in full plate .

* Milton

mangled through plate and mail

(herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.

(engineering, electricity) An electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.

(engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.

Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.

(obsolete) A coin, usually a silver coin.

* Shakespeare

Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket.

(heraldiccharge) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.

A prize given to the winner in a contest.

(chemistry) Any flat piece of material like coated glass or plastic.

Noun

(en-noun)

Precious metal, especially silver.

* 1864 , Andrew Forrester, The Female Detective :

At every meal—and I have heard the meals at Petleighcote were neither abundant nor succulent—enough plate stood upon the table to pay for the feeding of the poor of the whole county for a month

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At the northern extremity of this chill province the gold plate of the Groans, pranked across the shining black of the long table, smoulders as though it contains fire