Plate

Definition

plate /pleÇt/ n ၁။ [C] (က) ပန္းကန္ျပား။ a dinner/ dessert/ soup plate ❍ paper plates. (ခ) တစ္ပန္းကန္ျပားစာ။ a plate of stew/ sandwiches. (ဂ) ခရစ္ယာန္ ဘုရားရိွခိုးေက်ာင္းမ်ား၌ အလႉေငြ ေကာက္ခံရန္သံုးေသာ သစ္သား (သို႔) သတၱဳခြက္။ pass round the plate ❍ put £5 in the plate. See also HOTPLATE ၂။ [U] (က) ေရႊ၊ ေငြျဖင့္ ျပဳလုပ္ထားေသာ ဇြန္း၊ ခက္ရင္း၊ ပန္းကန္ စသည္။ display the family plate. (ခ) ခရစ္ယာန္ ဘုရားရိွခိုးေက်ာင္းတြင္ အသံုးျပဳေသာ ေရႊခြက္၊ ေငြခြက္ စသည္။ The plate is kept in a locked cupboard. ၃။ [U] ေရႊရည္စိမ္၊ ေငြရည္စိမ္ (အသံုးအေဆာင္)။ a silver plate teapot ❍ The cutlery is plate, not solid silver. ၄။ [C] (က) ဖန္၊ သတၱဳ အျပားအခ်ပ္။ The ship's hull is made of welded steel plates. (ခ) ( biology ) အခ်ပ္အျပင္လိုက္ ရိွေသာ အ႐ိုး၊ အေၾကးခြံ စသည္။ The armadillo has a protective shell of bony plates. ၅။ [C] ( geology ) ကမ႓ာေျမျပင္တြင္ ဖြဲ႕ယွက္ေနေသာ ေက်ာက္ထုလႊာႀကီးမ်ားအနက္ တစ္ခု။ the oceanic plate ❍ mountains that formed when two plates collided. ၆။ [C] နာမည္ျပား။ နံပါတ္ျပား။ a name plate ❍ a brass plate. (eg at the entrance to the place where a doctor, dentist or lawyer works). See also NUMBER-PLATE ၇။ [C] (က) စာအုပ္တြင္ ေရာင္စံု ဓာတ္ပံု စသည္ပါေသာ မ်က္ႏွာျပည့္ပံု။ a colour plate. (ခ) ပံုႏိွပ္သံုး ပလိတ္ျပား။ a printing plate. (ဂ) (ဓာတ္ပံု႐ိုက္ရာ ၌) ပံုရိပ္စြဲထင္ေစရန္ အလင္းေရာင္ႏွင့္ ဓာတ္ျပဳ ေသာ ဓာတုပစၥည္း လိမ္းက်ံထားေသာ မွန္ျပား။ ၈။ (also denture ) [C] သြားတု အံကပ္။ v ၁။ ~ sth (with sth) (ေရႊရည္၊ ေငြရည္ စသည္) စိမ္သည္။ a copper tray plated with silver ❍ gold-plated dishes. See also ELECTROPLATE ၂။ (ယာဥ္ကို) သံခ်ပ္ကာသည္။ armour- plated trucks. ❏ on a plate [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကာယကံရွင္၏ အားထုတ္မႈ မပါဘဲ။ အလိုလိုေနရင္း။ You can't expect promotion to be handed to you on a plate. ❏ on one's plate [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္ရိွသေရြ႕ လံုးပမ္းေနရေသာ လုပ္ငန္းေဆာင္တာ။ have enough/ a lot/ too much on one's plate. ❏ plateful /-fƱl/ n ( pl -fuls ) (တစ္) ပန္းကန္စာ။ ပန္းကန္ အျပည့္။ She ate three platefuls of spaghetti! ❏ plate glass n [U] (ဆိုင္မ်က္ႏွာစာ၊ အိမ္တံခါးရြက္အျဖစ္ သံုးေသာ) မွန္ထူျပား။ ❏ plate-rack n ပန္းကန္ေရစစ္စင္။ ❏ plate tectonics /tek'tɒnÇks/ n [sing v ] ( geology ) ကမ႓ာ့ေက်ာက္ထုလႊာ ေရြ႕လ်ားမႈအရ ေျမျပင္အေနအထား ျဖစ္ေပၚမႈ ေလ့လာေသာ ပညာရပ္။ ❏ plating n [U] ၁။ ေရႊရည္၊ ေငြရည္ စသည့္ သတၱဳလႊာ။ သတၱဳရည္စိမ္ျခင္း။ The plating is beginning to wear off. ၂။ အကြယ္အကာ (သံ၊ သံမဏိ) ျပား။ protected with steel plating

Examples

1. Rinse the plates before putting them in the dishwasher.
2. Paper plates
3. [plate of] : A plate of sandwiches
4. There will be a plate at the back for any donations.
5. Surgeons covered the wound in his skull with a metal plate.
6. Workers put a steel plate over the hole in the roadway.
7. They welded a large plate to the side of the damaged ship.
8. You can find the serial number on a plate inside the door of the refrigerator.
9. The book contains 35 colour plates.