Word Meanings - PLATEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.

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• PLATEFUL
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• PLATEN
  The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. The movable table of a machine tool,
• PLATE-GILLED
  Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.
• PLATE
  A piece of money, usually silver money. "Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket." Shak. 7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a
• ENOUGH
  Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17. (more info) (akin
• PLATERESQUE
  Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.
• PLATER
  One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater. 2. A machine for calendering paper.
• PLATEL
  A small dish.
• PLATEAU
  1. A flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevated area of land; a table-land. 2. An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.
• PLATETROPE
  One of a pair of a paired organs.
• WET PLATE
  A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• VEILED PLATE
  A fogged plate.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• TERNEPLATE
  Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of three metals.
• BREASTPLATE
  A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
• IMPLATE
  To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron.
• NECKPLATE
  See 2
• COPPERPLATE
  A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved. An impression on paper taken from such a plate. Note: In printing from a copper- or steel plate the lines are filled with ink, the surface of the plate is wiped clean, the paper
• SOLEPLATE
  A bedplate; as, the soleplate of a steam engine. The plate forming the back of a waterwheel bucket.
• EXPLAT; EXPLATE
  To explain; to unfold. Like Solon's self explatest the knotty laws. B. Jonson.
• BOOKPLATE
  A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library.
• PROCESS PLATE
  A plate prepared by a mechanical process, esp. a photomechanical process. A very slow photographic plate, giving good contrasts between high lights and shadows, used esp. for making lantern slides.