plate

A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.

I filled my plate from the bountiful table.

Such dishes collectively.

A valuable collection of silver plate was donated to the museum.

The contents of such a dish.

I ate a plate of beans.

A course at a meal.

The meat plate was particularly tasty.

An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities

With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.

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.

To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.

After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.

I took her for sushi, she wanted to fuck / So we took it to go, told 'em don't even plate it

To score a run.

The single plated the runner from second base.

To arm or defend with metal plates.

To beat into thin plates.

Precious metal, especially silver.

At every meal—and I have heard the meals at Petleighcote were neither abundant nor succulent—enough plate stood upon the table to pay for the feeding of the poor of the whole county for a month

At the northern extremity of this chill province the gold plate of the Groans, pranked across the shining black of the long table, smoulders as though it contains fire[…]