Thesaurus results for PLATE

plate

noun

ˈplāt

Definition of plate

as in scale

a small thin piece of material that resembles an animal scale the tiny silver plates on the brooch are arranged to look like fish scales

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as in diagram

something that visually explains or decorates a text the book's color plate illustrates the internal organs of the human body

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Recent Examples of plate Plus, the magnetic back plate detaches, letting gamers prop the controller and play wirelessly, like a Nintendo Switch. — Jessica Sager, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 What to order The menu moves beyond the familiar butter chicken and tikka masala lineup, pulling from regional Indian cuisine across the subcontinent — small and large plates, tandoor cooking, chaat and seafood. — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2026 Twice in the first five innings Tommy Edman, one of the team’s best bunters, came to the plate with a runner on first and none out. — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 One time, a very famous chef served my dining companion a gorgeous ten-piece dessert while plopping a giant wedge of cheese on my plate. — Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for plate

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The Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is perhaps the greatest chronicler of that era of scale, which stretched across the long twentieth century and only now shows the first signs of receding.

— Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026
Clean energy, on the other hand, has served as a critical defense mechanism that has kept the energy price crisis from getting worse in places where it has been deployed at scale.

— Justin Worland, Time, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of scale

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The reconstruction was made trickier, however, by the fact that the crew weren’t allowed to take photographs inside Downing Street and there aren’t diagrams online.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
Capturing it requires going beyond policies and process diagrams and working alongside the people who actually perform the work.

— Balaji Sreenivasan, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of diagram

Noun

Calvo, meanwhile, sits at a desk in his hotel room, gazing into the camera lens placidly while idly sketching on a sheet of paper.

— Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
The good news is that most stakeholders also agree that having two sets of regs is daft and that from 2030—when the current rulesets expire—everyone should be reading from the same sheet.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of sheet

Noun

Her work combines music, illustration, animation and fashion.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2026
But the Iran example – and particularly the ongoing episodic closures of the Strait of Hormuz – is one of the best illustrations today of how merely invoking credibility to act is not the same as having an overall endgame strategy.

— Christopher Nichols, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of illustration

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Microsoft Microsoft will ramp up use of its homegrown artificial intelligence chips after years of reliance on Nvidia's graphics processing units, as the software giant attempts to bolster its AI stack.

— Jordan Novet, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026
As expected, the ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 11 Aura Edition's graphics performance isn't a selling point.

— Charles Jefferies, PC Magazine, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of graphic

Noun

The image is then precision-fabricated into a 3D model that’s finished by hand — all for $2,200, about the national average of an actual wedding gown.

— Ari Stark, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
This sort of puzzling connection between text and image is repeated throughout the exhibition.

— Stephanie Wambugu, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of image

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The drawings were extraordinary, but the text — while unsurprisingly playful — was also tropey and wanting, and the wanting came in waves.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2026
That wasn’t the Mega Millions jackpot, now up to $385 million for Tuesday’s drawing.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026

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