a. Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad. [ 1913 Webster ]

This day will be launched . . . the first armor-plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain. Times (Dec. 29, 1860). [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 protected with a covering of armor.
Syn. -- steel-plated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ Back, n. or a. + piece, plate. ] 1. A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: A piece of plate armor protecting the back; -- it is worn as part of a cuirass. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. (Mach.) The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before his old rusty breastplate could be scoured, and his cracked headpiece mended. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A strap that runs across a horse's breast. Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Jewish Antiq.) 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 Ephod. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) See Platinichloric. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Contemplated p. pr. & vb. n. Contemplating. ] [ L. contemplatus, p. p. of contemplari to contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the augur. See Temple. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

To love, at least contemplate and admire,
What I see excellent.
Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

We thus dilate
Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate.
Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend. [ 1913 Webster ]

There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions. A. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war. Kent.

Syn. -- To view; behold; study; ponder; muse; meditate on; reflect on; consider; intend; design; plan; propose; purpose. See Meditate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate. [ 1913 Webster ]

So many hours must I contemplate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. contemplation, L. contemplatio. ] 1. The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study. [ 1913 Webster ]

In contemplation of created things,
By steps we may ascend to God. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Contemplation is keeping the idea which is brought into the mind for some time actually in view. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Holy meditation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To live in prayer and contemplation. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing. [ 1913 Webster ]

In contemplation of returning at an early date, he left. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

To have in contemplation, to inted or purpose, or to have under consideration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A contemplator. [ R. ] I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (R. C. Ch.) A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. contemplatif, L. contemplativus. ] 1. Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fixed and contemplative their looks. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the power of contemplation; as, contemplative faculties. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With contemplation; in a contemplative manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being contemplative; thoughtfulness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who contemplates. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (a) A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved. (b) An impression on paper taken from such a plate. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In printing from a copper- or steel plate the lines are filled with ink, the surface of the plate is wiped clean, the paper laid upon it, and the impression taken by pressing it under the roller of a plate press. [ 1913 Webster ]

Copperplate press. See Plate press, under Plate. [ 1913 Webster ]

A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat. [ Obs. ] Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. same as Duck Mole, under Duck..
Syn. -- duck mole, duckbill, duck-bill platypus, platypus. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Electroplating. ] (Mech.) To plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, chromium, or gold, by means of electrolysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who electroplates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of an electric current. The metal to be deposited on an article is usually used as the anode and the article to be plated as the cathode, in an electrolyte solution in which the plating metal is the cation. The process is conducted in a tank called an electroplating bath, which holds the electrolyte solution. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

{ } v. t. [ Pref. ex- + plat or plait. ] To explain; to unfold. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Like Solon's self explatest the knotty laws. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Locomotives) See Footboard (a). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Implated; p. pr. & vb. n. Implating. ] To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a square plate bearing the letter L that is attached to both ends of a car to indicate that the driver is a learner. [ British ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Gorget, 1 and 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Neoplatonism or the Neoplatonists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A Neoplatonist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Neo- + Platonism. ] A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which Plotinus was the chief (a. d. 205-270), and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of Greek philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who held to Neoplatonism; a member of the Neoplatonic school. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., from Gr. &unr_;. See Omo-, and Plate. ] (Anat.) The shoulder blade, or scapula. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Platted; p. pr. & vb. n. Platting. ] [ See Plait. ] To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait. “They had platted a crown of thorns.” Matt. xxvii. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Work done by platting or braiding; a plait. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Plat flat, which perh. caused this spelling, and Plot a piece of ground. ] A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To lay out in plats or plots, as ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. plat. See Plate, n. ] Plain; flat; level. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Plainly; flatly; downright. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat. Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Flatly; smoothly; evenly. [ Obs. ] Drant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The flat or broad side of a sword. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] “To note all the islands, and to set them down in plat.” Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. platanus. See Plane the tree. ] [ Written also platane. ] The plane tree. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. platanista a sort of fish, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. plataniste. ] (Zool.) The soosoo. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ See Plane the tree. ] (Bot.) A genus of trees; the plane tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. plate-bande; plat, plate, flat, level + bande a band. ] 1. A border of flowers in a garden, along a wall or a parterre; hence, a border. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) (a) A flat molding, or group of moldings, the width of which much exceeds its projection, as the face of an architrave. (b) A list or fillet between the flutings of a column. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. plat flat, Gr. &unr_;. See Place, n. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Metallic armor composed of broad pieces. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mangled . . . through plate and mail. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is silver or gold throughout. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. [ Cf. Sp. plata silver. ] A piece of money, usually silver money. [ Obs. ] “Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Arch.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. (Her.) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. (Photog.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light. [ 1913 Webster ]

13. A prize giving to the winner in a contest. [ 1913 Webster ]

14. (Baseball) A small five-sided area (enveloping a diamond-shaped area one foot square) beside which the batter stands and which must be touched by some part of a player on completing a run; -- called also home base, or home plate. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

15. One of the thin parts of the bricket of an animal. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

16. A very light steel racing horsehoe. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

17. Loosely, a sporting contest for a prize; specif., in horse racing, a race for a prize, the contestants not making a stake. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

18. Skins for fur linings of garments, sewed together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted. [ Furrier's Cant ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

19. (Hat Making) The fine nap (as of beaver, hare's wool, musquash, nutria, or English black wool) on a hat the body of which is of an inferior substance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

20. a quantity sufficient to fill a plate; a plateful; a dish containing that quantity; a plate of spaghetti. [ PJC ]

21. the food and service supplied to a customer at a restaurant; as, the turkey dinner is $9 a plate; I'll have a plate of spaghetti. [ PJC ]

22. a flat dish of glass or plastic with a fitted cover, used for culturing microorganisms in a laboratory. [ PJC ]

23. the identification tag required to be displayed on the outside of a vehicle; same as license plate; -- often used in the plural. [ PJC ]

24. an agenda or schedule of tasks to be performed; I have a lot on my plate today. [ colloq. ] [ PJC ]

☞ Plate is sometimes used in an adjectival sense or in combination, the phrase or compound being in most cases of obvious signification; as, plate basket or plate-basket, plate rack or plate-rack. [ 1913 Webster ]

Home plate. (Baseball) See Home base, under Home. --
Plate armor. (a) See Plate, n., 2. (b) Strong metal plates for protecting war vessels, fortifications, and the like. --
Plate bone, the shoulder blade, or scapula. --
Plate girder, a girder, the web of which is formed of a single vertical plate, or of a series of such plates riveted together. --
Plate glass. See under Glass. --
Plate iron, wrought iron plates. --
Plate layer, a workman who lays down the rails of a railway and fixes them to the sleepers or ties. --
Plate mark, a special mark or emblematic figure stamped upon gold or silver plate, to indicate the place of manufacture, the degree of purity, and the like; thus, the local mark for London is a lion. --
Plate paper, a heavy spongy paper, for printing from engraved plates. Fairholt. --
Plate press, a press with a flat carriage and a roller, -- used for printing from engraved steel or copper plates. --
Plate printer, one who prints from engraved plates. --
Plate printing, the act or process of printing from an engraved plate or plates. --
Plate tracery. (Arch.) See under Tracery. --
Plate wheel (Mech.), a wheel, the rim and hub of which are connected by a continuous plate of metal, instead of by arms or spokes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Plated; p. pr. & vb. n. Plating. ] 1. To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus plated in habiliments of war. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To calender; as, to plate paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. F. Plateaux E. Plateaus [ F., fr. OF. platel, properly a little plate. See Plate. ] 1. A flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevated area of land; a table-land. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Platefuls Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks. [ 1913 Webster ]