A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten. • Such dishes collectively. • The contents of such a dish. • A course at a meal. • An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities • A flat object of uniform thickness. • Vehicle license plates, registration plates. • A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc. • Plate armor. • A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating • A material covered with such a layer. • An ornamental or food service item coated with silver or gold or otherwise decorated. • 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. • 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 person's foot. • Home plate. • A tectonic plate. • Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles. • A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank. • The anode of a vacuum tube. • A prize given to the winner in a contest. • Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic. • A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code. • The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline. • A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture. • One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal. • A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses. • Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted. • The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material. • A record, usually vinyl. • trauma plate. • Any of the potential romantic or sexual partners with whom a person keeps in touch as part of plate spinning. • A Lego piece that is thin, 1/3 the height of a brick, and has studs on top.