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    1. She set the plate back up on the rail


    2. • Cinch Gopher Trap has a metal plate with a cinch lasso which catches the gophers


    3. He follows me through and, while I fuss around putting food on a plate for him, he sits at the table, resting his chin on his hands


    4. ‘Okay …’ Stephen said, taking his plate over to the sink, his thoughts obviously elsewhere


    5. ’ Barney said, pushing the plate away from him with so much enthusiasm that it nearly falls off the table


    6. I hand him a plate and some eating irons and we sit down at the table


    7. ’ I replied, my eyes on my plate


    8. It remained without a name plate or any sort of reference


    9. The SNACK BAR ATTENDANT -- a middle-aged man from the Subcontinent in a stained white uniform -- languidly shoves a plate toward one customer, takes a drag off his cigarette, points slowly to another student in the gaggle of customers crushing around the counter waiting to be served


    10. ‘So how was your day?’ Molly asked her son, handing him a plate of biscuits

    11. Theo parked his shining 2013 Audi TT convertible next to a dented and scratched Garda Fiat Ulysse with a 2003 license plate


    12. She smiled sweetly as she held out the plate of rancid biscuits and asked,


    13. "It took them ten years until their shuttlecraft reached the ground, but the surviving crew are all living on the planet below and the nose plate of their derelict old torch is serving as our fabricator mount


    14. Then his eyes roll up into his head and - splat! - he falls forward, face in his dinner plate


    15. The bases were now loaded again and the lead-off hitter coming to the plate


    16. Number two hitter corning to the plate, with an evil gleam in his eyes


    17. Closing my eyes, I let loose of the ball in the general direction of the plate, hoping for the best


    18. The ball hit the bat and trickled out in front of the plate


    19. Before Jimmy went up to the plate, the coach told him to bunt down the third base line because the third baseman was playing way back, protecting the line


    20. Jimmy stepped up to the plate, squared to bunt the first pitch and bunted it foul

    21. Was I wrong! This next ball came screaming down the middle of the plate


    22. From the license plate she knew that the driver lived in Grand Island, Nebraska, her next stop, but that wasn't all


    23. When I get back with a plate of cheese sandwiches, Stephen is talking to Jeremy and Tonya … he breaks off


    24. Only a few pieces of alien deck plate floated past before the first of it hit the bow


    25. It had to be morning because the tray on the floor in the doorway of my cell carried a plate of bread and jam and a mug of hot, milky tea


    26. ‘Please may I come and join the party at The Laurels on Christmas Day? I was going up to the parents but Dad’s been called off to Dubai or somewhere so I’ll be sitting all alone in my little house with my turkey leg and a sprout on a plate … Gran and Gramps said you were having a party and I should ask if I could come … I’ll be a good boy and help with the washing up


    27. ’ He said, dabbing at the turkey crumbs on his plate with his finger


    28. As I go into the kitchen, he gestures wordlessly to the table where there is a plate with lettuce leaf on which stands a little model of Brian, the snail from The Magic Roundabout …


    29. The plate that holds the bread and the container that holds the fruit of the vine can be


    30. He doesn't see the harm anymore, so he decides to soothe the beast that dwells in the pit of his gut, "Can I have that food now?" In moments, a steaming hot plate of fish and vegetables appear on the table, and Apollo doesn't hesitate to gorging himself on the generous helpings

    31. ’ He said stiffly, concentrating on his plate, and I am reminded of Rose’s prediction that things would be difficult for us


    32. He lowered his eyes and fiddled with the food on his plate with his fork


    33. The Lula was one piece and easily viewable, under two thousand feet from shield plate to charge-extractor, its mass/energy ratio at full boost was


    34. It was given off by the fabricators mounted to the Lula's great top plate, a sandblasted foot of soft iron in a circle, meant to soak up all the snowflakes they would hit


    35. He lies on the grayish bed, and stares at the plate of food that inexplicably materialized on the table's glass surface a while ago


    36. " When her face disappears, so does the plate of food


    37. receive! Stepping up to the plate and realizing all those


    38. ‘I’ve been careful, saved sensibly so I can retire when I want to … and Joris left me … some …’ The phrase stuck in her throat; concentrating her attention on the plate in front of her, she hauled herself back together again under cover of sharing condiments


    39. It looked very much as though her choice had been a good one; tantalising odours spiralled in the steam rising from the pastry parcel on her plate, making her mouth water in anticipation


    40. ’ Kara mused, spearing a particularly large chip on the end of her fork dipping it in the savoury sauce on her plate before carrying it to her mouth

    41. ‘How are the others?’ Kara asked, reaching for a pastry and transferring it to her plate


    42. “You know Kate, I’ve been thinking about those beasts,” Steve began as he was pouring honey on his second plate of biscuits; “maybe I could rig up some kind of a warning device


    43. She sat across from him and watched as he emptied his plate in 20 minutes


    44. Foods up,” he handed her a plate and fixed one for himself


    45. As promised, Gilla has put on a fine spread and I am just sitting down to a plate of bacon, eggs and some sort of local sausage when the men appear


    46. "Let me take the empty skin, and what's left of your camp cooking kit," which was just a little plastic plate and some plastic tableware


    47. Feeling absolutely wonderful, I turn my head to see Joris standing there with a plate in one hand and a mug of something in the other


    48. "This one was taken in week Kadezak of last year," he said, pushing the next plate into the projector


    49. so she opens the face plate


    50. "We have this plate here," Tarlass said, and put another photograph in the viewer














































    1. Cyberia was quite possibly the most haughty, proud and conceited young lady to have ever shopped and lunched in the fabulously gold plated arcades and streets of London Town


    2. plated arcades and streets of London Town


    3. Covenant was in the holy of holies, and it was plated with fine


    4. ‘I’m an invincible armor plated long-life mother


    5. foot soles are plated with it, and it is considered sacrilege of the higher calibres for them to touch


    6. The plated Kevlar vest, easily twice as durable as a solid plate according to


    7. The best information the SAS got out of Susan was that the building was fitted with armour plated glass, which meant they would need to be blown in instead of beaten by sledgehammers as had been originally planned


    8. Now we just call it “Millenium,” and it is a stretch of bare land and several rusted metal sculptures—one an abstract, plated mammoth, another shaped like a lima bean that dwarfs me in size


    9. with the way it echoed, but in truth, it was the result of a fracture, plated


    10. smashed hard against the plated steel, taking him a few seconds

    11. secret hollow were plated by long panels of immaculate


    12. It was hard to miss the gold plated door sign that said CEO: Jesse Gilbert, I smiled and knocked, there was no reply so I opened the door


    13. on brass plated hinges


    14. How was this possible? In five days I was supposed to meet my eighteen years and would definitely go back to the city, not what will happen, to become an inhabitant of the world of the shadows, whose neighbors would almost certainly be demons and who knows what other creepy creatures, similar to those which appeared plated on the gate of the witch


    15. Impossible! Or plated with a thin sheet of very cold metal


    16. The lead vehicle, an armoured truck with thick metal plated sides, was black


    17. Their plated breakfasts arrived, and there was a short break in the conversation while the young waitress fussed about serving the meals


    18. The treasure was there, heaped in staggering profusion—piles of diamonds, sapphires, rubies, turquoises, opals, emeralds; zikkurats of jade, jet and lapis lazuli; pyramids of gold wedges; toecallis of silver ingots; jewel-hilted swords in cloth-of-gold sheaths; golden helmets with colored horsehair crests, or black and scarlet plumes; silver scaled corselets; gem-crusted harness worn by warrior-kings three thousand years in their tombs; goblets carven of single jewels; skulls plated with gold, with moonstones for eyes; necklaces of human teeth set with jewels


    19. Sam laughed at this tin plated display


    20. ’ He knew his game was up and he was in deep trouble with the law this time but he couldn’t stop himself from boasting about the prowess of the weapon he had supplied, ‘In the right hands you could kill a man inside an armour plated car at half a mile and no-one would know where the shot came from

    21. The torso was black and plated at the sides with an oval section on the front that was the door for the cockpit


    22. You reckon that this guy has a gold plated bath at home!


    23. double doors were massive and gigantic, with large gold plated


    24. A king-sized bed with large gold plated


    25. with a vibrant ring upon the solid brass and tempered gold plated


    26. plated lantern style light that swung enchantingly by elegant chain


    27. There could be piles of gold plated latinum in there


    28. He had his gold plated AR-15 automatic tucked into his belt - a trusty piece


    29. an iron fist, built an absurd magnificent palace for himself that cost millions with 24 karat gold plated furnishings and magnificent balconies and was


    30. plated name tag exhibiting his full name across the front of it:

    31. “He commented crossing his arms over his plated chest


    32. Very proud of himself as he stood back, he thought that only a few months earlier, he would not have dreamt that he could have created such an imaginative dish as the one that was now plated before him


    33. was fully plated with wires running through


    34. plated helmet that covered his face and had a slit for his eyes to see


    35. proffered as wild salmon at his private preschool, Gold Plated Chef catered, graduation luncheon


    36. Under the exterior of the gold plated dome, the ceiling was covered in Reinforced Carbon-carbon, RCC space shuttle tile material tiles, and a layer of laminated Graphite resin


    37. I leaped towards the windows, moving the wooden blinds over the four large plated windows as quickly as possible


    38. She’d glance at him every few seconds, as she plated the roasted beetroot or painted a plate with red wine reduction


    39. Like shivering, half drowned rats, we climbed up the scaled arm onto the heavy plated monster’s back


    40. “You expect me to believe that her eyes changed color on the way down here you pair of sick little weasels?” Tyra said angrily, but even as her words ended the hair she held onto turned into black plated braids

    41. Three hours later numerous satchels filled with metallic odds and ends were carried below the iron plated deck of Matt’s ship


    42. The harpoon dinked off the side of the heavy iron plated ship and everyone within the gun bay chuckled


    43. plated steel plate that is embedded with monocrystalline diamond particles and


    44. Chevalier grabbed a nearby chair and threw it through the plated window to the balcony, ripping the large


    45. a silver chrome plated figurine; and then in the same moment the most intense and fierce


    46. He had never been suspected of stealing a silver tea-pot; he had been maligned respecting a mustard-pot, but it turned out to be only a plated one


    47. Plated baskets contained fresh rolls


    48. Once in the middle of the day, in the open country, just as the sun beat most fiercely against the old plated lanterns, a bared hand passed beneath the small blinds of yellow canvas, and threw out some scraps of paper that scattered in the wind, and farther off lighted like white butterflies on a field of red clover all in bloom


    49. His head, on the whole of which the hair had been permitted to grow, the pursuits of war having so long been abandoned, was encircled by a sort of plated diadem, which, in its turn, bore lesser and more glittering ornaments, that sparkled amid the glossy hues of three drooping ostrich feathers, dyed a deep black, in touching contrast to the color of his snow-white locks


    50. Its rifling was more precise than anything even Taigys Mahldyn’s shops could have cut, the barrel lining was chrome plated, the stock was precisely tailored to his height and reach, and the cartridges in its magazine—loaded with a smokeless propellant centuries in advance of anything pre-Merlin Safehold could have produced—drove its massive bullets at well over two thousand feet per second, with a muzzle energy of better than five thousand foot-pounds





    1. Again all is covered in dust, but on the kitchen table are two plates, two cups, forks, spoons, a couple used paper napkins,


    2. Calmly collecting up the plates he carried them over to the sink before replying


    3. Tables are covered with books, used paper cups and plates, half-eaten chunks of food covered with slowly crawling, lazy flies


    4. Billie was the first to speak after Johnny had cleared away the plates and the


    5. They were able to get the astronomer's article and even virtual copies of the plates up onto stills


    6. ’ He said as I float back into the kitchen to count plates … or something


    7. Leave your bottles and plates there


    8. ‘Do you live at Abery, Karal?’ Iain asked as he rinsed off the plates before stacking them in the dishwasher


    9. Oh it was good to be out of all those fumes! The odour of cooked food quickly filled the room as Friede, the cook and general factotum of The Centre, brought in plates piled high with savoury pastries


    10. plates of sandwiches and buns

    11. After breakfast, Poopsie and Lardyme took the plates into the


    12. I could hear the tectonic plates of our


    13. He had the most recent plates with him, a whole series of observations of the null point asteroids and their unexplained motions of the past year


    14. They had darkened the room with the night-mats so the plates could be projected on a whole wall and let them see all the details


    15. The first few plates had been the details of the asteroid string as it had lain in the stasis point for the past thirty five years


    16. She and Desa filled their plates and took them down to the deck to watch the water and the sunset


    17. From her walls hung decorative plates scattered at random around the panelled and polished saloon


    18. Cups and plates went spinning through the air to smash on the floor and against the walls


    19. It was only under the severest of admonishments that she had ceased to throw plates, crystal knickknacks and sundry items of cutlery at her parents


    20. They made their way to the serving line joking and laughing with each other and proceeded to load their plates with a hearty breakfast

    21. ” He perked up when Sam came back to the table with two large steaming plates of food


    22. Ok everyone – dig in!” Plates of food were soon passed around the table


    23. Plates, statuettes, the framed business license and a calendar hung with equal importance beneath a clock plate and below it stood a kerosene lamp, prominent on its very own shelf, like a holy statue


    24. The air of excitement in the air makes me feel self-conscious but it’s not long before we are laughing about something crazy and, by the time I put the plates on the table, I feel more stable


    25. Karen collects up the plates from the first course and Jake helps her take them out to the kitchen


    26. I ordered tea while the waiter cleared our plates


    27. I help Karen clear the main course, following her into the kitchen with the dirty plates


    28. The plates had simple food -


    29. all this, they forget the real issue - why didn't the manager provide-two plates of


    30. " he agreed, he knew the silicon plates ran at a little over two hundred Kelvin, and it was mostly internally generated heat

    31. Alastair turns up twenty minutes later clutching white plastic bags and we usher him into the dining room where we have put out plates and cutlery


    32. not spend two samosa plates worth of money on sports


    33. The waiters cleared our plates as we finished our food


    34. offer in simple terms to Ali while a waiter cleared our plates


    35. Cups and plates went spinning through the


    36. had ceased to throw plates, crystal knickknacks and sundry items of


    37. ’ Alastair said, taking the heap of plates from her and putting them on the table


    38. Within a short time, Katie and Jake appear with plates of cake wrapped in paper napkins which they start handing round - looks as though Ben and Abi are on cake-wrapping detail


    39. They sat and filled their plates in silence; each thinking of recent attack


    40. It was serve yourself with pottery plates and bronze forks

    41. six hours of surgery using metal plates and other


    42. We take the plates into the kitchen where he efficiently stacks them in his dishwasher before filling the kettle and getting out a cafetière


    43. ’ He said, collecting up the crumb-laden plates


    44. ’ I said, as I prepare the meringue for the dessert and he stacks the dinner plates in the dishwasher


    45. Filled plates and wood-handled cutlery were delivered by the


    46. The three men cleaned their plates rapidly, focussing on their food


    47. them pushed back their plates, sat back in their chairs and looked


    48. The car has new plates, although it shows the typically mud-slung signs of a substantial journey


    49. Refusing all offers of help from her, he fusses around the kitchen, getting out plates, pouring red wine … ordinary activities which restore her balance, wiping away the memory of Chas reaching out for her, his hands clawlike in their eagerness to grasp her flesh


    50. returning plates and glasses to the kitchen table













































    1. In the manufactures of Birmingham alone, the quantity of gold and silver annually employed in gilding and plating, and thereby disqualified from ever afterwards appearing in the shape of those metals, is said to amount to more than fifty thousand pounds sterling


    2. Another illusion, of course, fed into him by the wealth of telemetry regarding its state, reporting any abrasion to the primary plating


    3. “Our hull plating will withstand the impacts with ease, sir


    4. His form was not grotesque in a conventional sense: the exoskeleton had a perfect symmetry, a perfectly integrated system of servos overlaid with chrome plating, a design that bespoke maximum efficiency


    5. ” I noticed that further down a Vickers machine gun had been sited in its own nest of sandbags and armour plating


    6. ” He muttered and grumped as he patted the old hulk’s side plating


    7. welding and bolts along the outer plating were brown with rust


    8. The armoured plating of their pallid blue Security Division


    9. In reality what was behind the viewscreens were many layers of extra-thick armor plating, but it was easy to forget that and believe you were out there in this room


    10. Reinforced bows, strong wood (oak) frames, and iron plating prepared the early cutters for Alaskan patrol duty

    11. “That’s some solid armor plating,” said Miles


    12. All the wiring is encased in armoured plating and we have three back up generator systems if any one fails


    13. After running for less than a minute, he again heard the now familiar clicking sounds on the deck plating


    14. Their muscles stretched their armor plating, but the wires held them on their grotesquely growing forms


    15. Almost a year after his return home, having sold the silver candlesticks and the heraldic chamberpot-which at the moment of truth turned out to have only a little gold plating on the crest-in order to eat, the only distraction of José Arcadio was to pick up children in town so that they could play in the house


    16. A Japanese fighter barely missed his ramming attack as Tom ran out of ammunition for his rail gun, the aircraft actually grazing the top of the scoutship’s hull and ripping off the hull plating along a good four meters


    17. “Commodore, have your defensive laser batteries sweep close to the hull plating of the upper section: there may be an unwanted fly stuck there


    18. When done, if you’re bored with the usual plating


    19. The two B-25s only had time to get out of the way as complete gun turrets flew in the air, along with pieces of deck and hull plating


    20. and had the armor plating and bullet-resistant glass, that the original Humvee’s did not have

    21. A harpoon barely missed Carla, clanging against the steel plating of the wreck


    22. Unfortunately, he discovered too late that the floor plating between the two anular fields had no artificial gravity


    23. helicopters use "boron" armor plating, which is stronger than steel and


    24. “Using my neural implant, I am able to access the computer program and alter the gravity in the deck plating below me


    25. That would make it easier to unmold prior to finishing and the final plating


    26. All that remained was the final plating


    27. glint from the excessive silver and gold plating that surrounded the administration


    28. Thankfully, the enemy had neglected to put plating over their wooden hulls, which made Tuvalin�s job a little easier


    29. Sorren tried to divert the monster’s attention by slashing at its body, but he could not penetrate the worm’s rocky plating


    30. in the seeding, harvesting, and plating of a wild heirloom idea:

    31. We carry two types of material in our ferrules: either stainless steel, or steel with copper plating -- this varies on the specific brush


    32. noticeable sudden expansion of hull plating, the Shiffvic erupted along her structural bulkheads


    33. All the towers had been rebuilt, but in lower profile and more thickly stoned than before, with iron plating on their outsides


    34. I dove the last few feet as the shells chasing me slammed into the thick steel armor plating that the kitchen cabinets and counters were inlaid with


    35. They tore away at the heavy steel plating in an effort to make a way through to the ship’s interior


    36. plating his image in the mirror


    37. So it was imperative to make contact with whatever beings were confined inside the plating of this machine


    38. Its plating can't give way; it's self–adhering and not dependent on the tightness of its rivets; and due to the perfect union of its materials, the solidarity of its construction allows it to defy the most violent


    39. I heard its plating grind against the limestone roughness of that coral base


    40. The hatch lids fell back onto the outer plating

    41. Equipped with picks, some ten men climbed onto the Nautilus'ssides and cracked loose the ice around the ship's lower plating, which was soon set free


    42. It was no ordinary misanthropy that kept Captain Nemo and his companions sequestered inside the Nautilus's plating, but a hate so monstrous or so sublime that the passing years could never weaken it


    43. And when I compared this deep calm of the elements with all the fury seething inside the plating of this barely perceptible Nautilus, Ishivered all over


    44. The Maelstrom! Could a more frightening name have rung in our ears under more frightening circumstances? Were we lying in the dangerous waterways off the Norwegian coast? Was the Nautilusbeing dragged into this whirlpool just as the skiff was about to detach from its plating?


    45. There was a reason warships had historically avoided well-sited land batteries, and while it was possible the heretics’ introduction of armor plating might have changed that, it was unlikely it could have changed the balance between shore and ship enough


    46. Even solid thirty-pound round shot probably won’t be able to break through without pounding a lot of hits into the same piece of plating, and I’m none too sure standard six-inch shells will penetrate it as readily as we’d all like, either


    47. I don’t want our kitchen to be a plating kitchen; it is just too uncompromising for that


    48. “But the neuromorphic electronics are deep inside the torso, encased in armor plating


    49. strained and had opened; and, as the plating in those days was not of sheet iron, the vessel had sprung a leak


    50. When this kind of electricity was discovered, people began to apply it: they invented a way of gold and silver plating by means of electricity, and electric light, and a way to transmit signs from place to place over a long distance by means of electricity

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    Synonyms for "plate"

    dental plate denture plate home home base home plate scale shell collection plate photographic plate crustal plate plateful course portion serving helping meal dish service saucer casserole sheet plane slice stratum leaf layer panel illustration print lithograph impression engraving etching woodcut cut coat cover gild overlay enamel veneer face

    "plate" definitions

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


    a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic


    a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)


    dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten


    the quantity contained in a plate


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


    the thin under portion of the forequarter


    a main course served on a plate


    any flat platelike body structure or part


    the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube


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


    structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage


    a shallow receptacle for collection in church


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


    a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth


    coat with a layer of metal