What is the meaning of PLATE. Phrases containing PLATE
See meanings and uses of PLATE!Slangs & AI meanings
A flat steel plate bolted across the top of an open fairlead to prevent a line from jumping out. It is especially useful in situations where the ship's lines are attached to a jetty that is above deck level, such as in a canal lock.
Plate of beef is criminal rhyming slang for a prison chief warder.
Plate−face is Australian slang for an oriental−looking person.
Plate of meat is London Cockney rhyming slang for street.
Plates and dishes is London Cockney rhyming slang for a wife (missus).
Plates of meat is London Cockney rhyming slang for feet.
Plate of ham is London Cockney rhyming slang for fellatio (gam). Plate of ham was old London Cockney rhyming slang for a tram.
Feet. Get your plates of the table.
Plates and dishes is London Cockney rhyming slang for wishes.
Plate−captain is American slang for someone who works clearing tables in a restaurant or café.
Plate−rack was th century London Cockney rhyming slang for a hack (horse).
Plate (shortened from plate of ham) is slang for to perform fellatio.
Specific routines or exercises designed to push you past your plateau
When any and all progress comes to a halt. Could be in your lifts or could be in your ability to drop fat, or lack there of. Plateaus suck, but everyone experiences them, so don’t cry over it
PLATE
PLATE
PLATE
PLATE
PLATE
PLATE
PLATE
n.
Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold.
n.
Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
n.
A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely.
pl.
of Plateau
v. t.
To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.
v. t.
To calender; as, to plate paper.
n.
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.
n.
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.
v. t.
To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.
pl.
of Plateau
a.
Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.
n.
One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater.
n.
A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters.
n.
The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reentrant angle.
n.
A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.
v. t.
To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany. Used also figuratively.
pl.
of Plateful
imp. & p. p.
of Plate
a.
Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad.
PLATE
PLATE
PLATE