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Plate can be a verb or a noun.
plate used as a verb:
- To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
"This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold." - To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
"After preparation, the chef will plate the dish." - To perform cunnilingus.
"He fingered her as he plated her with his tongue." - To score a run.
"The single plated the runner from second base."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
plate used as a noun:
- A dish from which food is served or eaten.
"I filled my plate from the bountiful table." - The contents of such a dish.
"I ate a plate of beans." - A course at a meal.
"The meat plate was particularly tasty." - 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 weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
- An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
"We finished making the plates this morning." - An image or copy.
- An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
- A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
- A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
- A decorative or food service item coated with silver.
"The tea was served in the plate." - A foot, from "plates of meat".
"Sit down and give your plates a rest." - Home plate.
"There was a close play at the plate." - A tectonic plate.
- Plate armour.
"He was confronted by two knights in full plate." - The type of scales covering some kinds of reptile.
- An electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is plate?
- Verb usage: This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.
- Verb usage: After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.
- Verb usage: He fingered her as he plated her with his tongue.
- Verb usage: The single plated the runner from second base.
- Noun usage: I filled my plate from the bountiful table.
- Noun usage: I ate a plate of beans.
- Noun usage: The meat plate was particularly tasty.
- Noun usage: A clutch usually has two plates.
- Noun usage: He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.
- Noun usage: We finished making the plates this morning.
- Noun usage: The tea was served in the plate.
- Noun usage: Sit down and give your plates a rest.
- Noun usage: There was a close play at the plate.
- Noun usage: He was confronted by two knights in full plate.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of plate are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of plate, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
