Clues for the word "PLATE"
We've had 171 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 290 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on November 20, 2025.
Definition of plate
- n. - A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.
- n. - Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.
- n. - Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.
- n. - Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold.
- n. - A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.
- n. - A piece of money, usually silver money.
- n. - A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate.
- n. - A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.
- n. - That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc.
- n. - A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters.
- n. - A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
- n. - A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.
- n. - A prize giving to the winner in a contest.
- v. t. - To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.
- v. t. - To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.
- v. t. - To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.
- v. t. - To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae.
- v. t. - To calender; as, to plate paper.
Referring Clues
- Batter's position
- Strike location
- Fashion ___ (clotheshorse)
- Word with hot or home
- Diner serving
- Part of a service
- Yogi was behind it
- Home ___
- Home feature
- Dish
- Batter's place
- Home, for one
- Pentagonal part of a diamond
- Catcher's place
- Part of the earth's outer layer
- Hot item in a Mexican restaurant?
- Word after gold or home
- China purchase
- Something on a stegosaurus spine
- It can follow home or blue
- Dish that can follow the first words of 17-, 20-, 35-, 51-, and 56-Across
- An umpire is behind it
- Place setting's center
- One in a buffet stack
- Likely spot for dinner?
- Fundraising dinner unit
- Armor component
- Diamond pentagon
- Five-sided home?
- Arrange, as food to be served
- Coat with gold, say
- Table-setting part
- Place-setting part
- Piece of dinnerware
- Bit of china
- Dinnerware piece
- There's one at home
- Cover, in a way
- Full-page book illustration
- Armadillo feature
- Home at the ballpark
- Stegosaurus spine feature
- What most of these theme entires could use
- Dish of a dish
- Word with fashion or dinner
- Word with gold or home
- Dentist's handiwork
- Bit of dental work
- Table Item
- Full-page illustration
- Dinner spot?
- One in a kitchen stack
- 36-Down's locale
- Setting piece
- Hot or home follower
- Bit of tableware
- Auto ID
- Home at the park?
- China piece
- Pentagon on a diamond
- Car tag
- China item
- Armor piece
- Item of china
- Piece of china
- Commemorative item
- Continental drifter
- One must touch it to score
- Fashion ___
- Meal holder
- Pitcher's target
- Word with "fashion" or "dinner"
- Part of a cafeteria stack
- Batter's spot
- Bit of chinaware
- Food holder
- Dinner dish
- Item in a buffet stack
- Shallow dish
- Knife and fork separator, in a place setting
- Entrée holder
- Pass it in church
- Part of a table setting
- Part of the earth's crust
- License ___
- Some batters protect it
- Dish for an entree
- Dinner piece
- Center of a place setting
- Spode piece
- Photographic surface
- Thing in a kitchen stack
- Diner's need
- Dish that holds dinner
- Flat piece of metal
- Fundraiser unit, often
- It's between batter's boxes
- Platter
- Blue ___ special
- Dinner holder
- Place setting disc
- It may be passed in church
- Disc in the dishwasher
- Buffet stack item
- Dinnerware item
- Dish for a dinner
- Denture
- Your dinner may be on one
- What your dinner is served on
- Buffet handful
- Crockery item
- Flat dish
- Iggy Pop "Eggs On ___"
- Sheet
- From which food is eaten or served
- The sort of glass for tableware?
- Quietly departed with the silver
- China, silver, or possibly glass
- China river?
- Printed picture of the river?
- Why might the earth have moved, when soft testicle on cat stimulated?
- Money-making need
- Catching spot
- Dinner supporter?
- *An ump is behind it
- Coat (with metal)
- Penny and the others put back what's moved during earthquake
- Page behind illustration in book
- Tragic poet losing home (English)
- Shallow circular dish
- Shallow round dish
- Auto tag
- Steak holder
- Tectonic slab
- Dish only half up - and tardily!
- Shallow dish for food
- Illustration on page 50: a hollow tree
- What a fat ump cleans?
- Item that might go under several answers in this puzzle
- Sort of glass dish?
- Baseball's home ___
- Appetizer holder
- Home in a park
- Dish to serve dinner on
- Setting item
- A dish for selling, perhaps?
- Part of a place setting
- A server might bring an extra one
- Stegosaurus feature
- One spun by a juggler
- Buffet patron's burden
- Umpire's assignment
- ___ tectonics (seismology concern)
- Diamond home
- Dish that holds a dinner
- Glass dish?
- Home, on a diamond
- Serving holder
- Item between a fork and knife
- Home for a baseball player?
- Division of the earth's crust
- Saucer
- Tectonic ___
- China river?
- Printed picture of the river?
- Flat dish for food
- Place for your dinner
- Piece of tableware
- Arrange for serving, as a meal
- Side dish?
- For dinner, perhaps?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 20, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 28, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 21, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 01, 2025
- Mirror Mini - September 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 25, 2025
- Mirror Mini - August 24, 2025
- Daily American - August 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 25, 2025
- New York Times - July 09, 2025
- Daily American - July 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 23, 2025
- New York Times - June 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 27, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 01, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 15, 2025
- LA Times - January 10, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 05, 2025
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