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a circular dare to stop eating before the edges
means A flat, usually round dish on which food is served, eaten from, or displayed.
from From Old French 'plate,' meaning a flat piece of metal or armor, drawn from Medieval Latin 'plata' (a thin sheet of metal), itself rooted in the idea of something flattened — a cousin of 'plat,' meaning flat. The sense of flatness came first; the dinner dish is simply a flat thing you put food on. The same flat-metal ancestry gives us 'plate armor' and 'silver plate,' so your supper sits on a word that once meant a knight's breastplate.
- tectonics
- Earth's crust rides on slow-grinding plates
- armor
- Knights wore plate steel weighing 50-plus pounds
- baseball
- Home plate is a five-sided pentagon, not square
- photography
- Early cameras exposed images onto glass plates
- license
- Cars wear them; criminals wish they didn't
plate tectonics theory — earth's crust divided into 7-15 major plates that move and interact, discovered 1960s
home plate — 5-sided rubber slab in baseball where batter stands, 17 inches wide
license plate — metal registration identifier on vehicles, issued by states/countries like california or uk