PLATES Synonyms

• a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food

• a particular item of prepared food

• the quantity that a dish will hold

• a very attractive or seductive looking woman

• directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation

• an activity that you like or at which you are superior

• provide (usually but not necessarily food)

• make concave; shape like a dish

• a large shallow dish used for serving food

• sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

• something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate

• a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table

• directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation

• a disk used in throwing competitions

• an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food

• a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth

• used of your own ground

• relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are

• where you live at a particular time

• housing that someone is living in

• the country or state or city where you live

• (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score

• the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end

• place where something began and flourished

• an environment offering affection and security

• a social unit living together

• an institution where people are cared for

• at or to or in the direction of one's home or family

• on or to the point aimed at

• to the fullest extent; to the heart

• inside the country

• provide with, or send to, a home

• return home accurately from a long distance

• the quantity contained in a plate

• an ordered reference standard

• relative magnitude

• the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it

• a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin

• a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin

• (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)

• a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass

• an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks

• a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

• a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals

• measure by or as if by a scale

• pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard

• take by attacking with scaling ladders

• reach the highest point of

• climb up by means of a ladder

• remove the scales from

• measure with or as if with scales

• size or measure according to a scale

• ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun

• the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals

• hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles

• the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts

• the exterior covering of a bird's egg

• a rigid covering that envelops an object

• a very light narrow racing boat

• the housing or outer covering of something

• a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

• the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod

• use explosives on

• create by using explosives

• fall out of the pod or husk

• hit the pitches of hard and regularly

• look for and collect shells by the seashore

• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

• remove from its shell or outer covering

• remove the husks from

• a shallow receptacle for collection in church

• a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly

• a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth

• (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score

• (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise

• (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score

• a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded