anglais > français | |
plate | |
1. n. Plaque. | |
2. n. (Cuisine) Assiette. | |
3. n. (Héraldique) Besant (d'argent). | |
4. v. Plaquer (couvrir en matériau d'une fine couche d'un autre matériau). | |
anglais > anglais | |
plate | |
1. n. A flat dish from which food is served or eaten. | |
I filled my plate from the bountiful table. | |
2. n. Such dishes collectively. | |
3. n. The contents of such a dish. | |
I ate a plate of beans. | |
4. n. A course at a meal. | |
The meat plate was particularly tasty. | |
5. n. (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities | |
With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate. | |
6. n. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness. | |
A clutch usually has two plates. | |
7. n. A vehicle license plate. | |
He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could. | |
8. n. 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. | |
9. n. A material covered with such a layer. | |
If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate. | |
10. n. (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver. | |
The tea was served in the plate. | |
11. n. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine. | |
12. n. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper. | |
We finished making the plates this morning. | |
13. n. (printing, photography) An image or copy. | |
14. n. (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. | |
15. n. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate. | |
16. n. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs. | |
17. n. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat". | |
Sit down and give your plates a rest. | |
18. n. (baseball) Home plate. | |
There was a close play at the plate. | |
19. n. (geology) A tectonic plate. | |
20. n. (historical) Plate armour. | |
He was confronted by two knights in full plate. | |
21. n. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles. | |
22. n. (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank. | |
23. n. (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube. | |
Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying. | |
24. n. (obsolete) A coin, usually a silver coin. | |
25. n. (heraldic charge) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent. | |
26. n. A prize given to the winner in a contest. | |
27. n. (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic. | |
28. n. (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code. | |
29. n. (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline. | |
30. n. (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture. | |
31. n. One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal. | |
32. n. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses. | |
33. n. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted. | |
34. n. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material. | |
35. n. (music) A record, usually vinyl. | |
36. v. 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. | |
37. v. To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving. | |
After preparation, the chef will plate the dish. | |
38. v. (baseball) To score a run. | |
The single plated the runner from second base. | |
39. v. (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of. | |
Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline. | |
40. n. Precious metal, especially silver. | |
français > anglais | |
assiette | |
ne pas être dans son assiette - to feel under the weather | |
1. n-f. (horse racing) seat | |
2. n-f. (nautical) trim, attitude, pitch attitude | |
3. n-f. (accounting) basis | |
4. n-f. dish (the food) | |
C'est une bonne assiette. - It's a good dish. | |
5. n-f. plate, dish (the crockery) | |
On a besoin d'assiettes. - We need plates. | |
6. n-f. plateful | |