Noun

(en noun)

A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.

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A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.

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One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.

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A region in a specified position with respect to something.

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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)

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One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.

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One set of competitors in a game.

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A sports team.

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*2011 , Nick Cain, Greg Growden, Rugby Union For Dummies , UK Edition, 3rd Edition, p.220:

*:Initially, the English, Welsh, Scots and Irish unions refused to send national sides', preferring instead to send touring ' sides like the Barbarians, the Penguins, the Co-Optimists, the Wolfhounds, Crawshays Welsh, and the Public School Wanderers.

A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.

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* Landor

*:We have not always been of thesame side in politics.

* Alexander Pope

*:sets the passions on the side of truth

Sidespin; english

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A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched (lb).

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A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.

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A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.

* Milton

*:To sit upon thy father David's throne, / By mother's side thy father.

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