| plate | the branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust |
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| plate | a relatively flat highland |
| plate | having distinct longitudinal stripes: of Colorado Plateau from Arizona to western Colorado |
| plate | the quantity contained in a plate |
| plate | a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks |
| plate | tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood |
| plate | platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor |
| plate | as the hard flattened scales of e.g. sharks |
| plate | the roller on a typewriter against which the keys strike |
| plate | the flat plate of a printing press that presses the paper against the type |
| plate | work table of a machine tool |
| plate | a skilled worker who coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold) |