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The sand is thrown up into the air by the vibration of the plate, and re-falling on the plate is arranged in regular lines (fig. 2). By touching the edge of the plate at different points when it is bowed, different notes, and hence varying forms, are obtained (fig. 3). If the figures here given are compared with those obtained from the human voice, many likenesses will be observed.

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  1. noun A smooth, flat, relatively thin, rigid body of uniform thickness.
  2. noun A sheet of hammered, rolled, or cast metal.
  3. noun A very thin applied or deposited coat of metal.
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  • On my plate was the sort of fried haggis that one gets in chip shops pretty much anywhere north of Manchester and ramekins of mashed turnips and potatoes. —  Serious Eats
  • Enjoy his defense and anything he gives you at the plate is a bonus. —  Bugs & Cranks
  • David's strength at the plate was his eye and his ability to go the other way. —  Mets Merized Online
  • "The last four games at the plate was a struggle for me because of pain in my back," Tierney said. —  The Taunton Gazette Home RSS
  • Notice the bottom pic ... his plate is almost empty and hers is untouched! —  The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from feminine of plat, flat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Greek platus; see plat- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English plate, a plate, from Old French plate, platte, plaite, plete, plette, etc., feminine, a plate of metal, plate-armor, ingot, silver, also plat, masculine, a plate, platter, a flat surface, a low lake, a flatboat, etc., plate, bullion, silver-plate, silver, French plat, masculine, a dish, plate, scale (of a balance), lid (of a book), sheet (of glass), flat (of the hand), blade (of an oar), etc.; = Spanish plata, feminine, plate, silver, wrought metal, money, plato, masculine, a dish, plate, = Portuguese prata, feminine, plate, silver, prato, masculine, a dish, plate, = Italian piatta, feminine, a flatboat, piatto, masculine, a dish, plate (Middle Latin plata, feminine, a dish, plate, platum, n., a dish, plate, plattum, a flat surface, platus, masculine, a dish, plate, also platta, feminine, the clerical tonsure); cf. Anglo-Saxon platung, a plate of metal (see plate, v.); OFries. platte, a shaven pate, = Dutch plat, flat side, flat form, = Middle Low German plate, a sheet of metal, = Icelandic plata, a plate, mounted metal, = Swedish plȧt = Danish plade, a sheet of metal; Middle High German plate, German platte, a plate, a shaven or bald pate; from the adjective, French plat, etc., flat: see plat. Cf. pate, the same word, with loss of medial l. The uses of plate in part overlap those of the related noun plat.
  2. from Middle English *platen, from Anglo-Saxon *platian in comp. āplatian and verbal noun platung, a plate of metal: see plate, n.
 

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