Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The amount that a plate can hold.
- noun A generous portion of food.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun As much as a plate will hold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quantity contained on a
plate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quantity contained in a plate
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Eat the whole plateful if you like -- they total about 400 calories.
Suzanne O'Malley: Day Five: Super Bowl XLVI Guilt-Free Cauliflower Breadsticks and Pizza Suzanne O'Malley 2012
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Eat the whole plateful if you like -- they total about 400 calories.
Suzanne O'Malley: Day Five: Super Bowl XLVI Guilt-Free Cauliflower Breadsticks and Pizza Suzanne O'Malley 2012
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Of course, yesterday I ate five tacos al pastor as well (and a plateful of bacon for breakfast) - my logic being that the government. didn't tell people not to eat pork.
Swine flu at Ground Zero (Mexico City): life in a masked city 2009
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For the same $50 you can see a dozen museums in Little Rock and still have money left over for a plateful of tamales smothered with chili at Doe's Eat Place, Bill Clinton's favorite haunt.
Pam Grout: Doing It On The Cheap In Little Rock Pam Grout 2011
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When corporate executives take to conference calls to spin their employers 'quarterly earnings reports, listeners are usually rewarded with a heaping plateful of word salad.
Faster Forward: Steve Jobs, tech pundit (annotated version) Rob Pegoraro 2010
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My friend I have flown many missions for the navy in a search and rescue capacity, and I must say that I don't think that was nearly as scary as the thoughts of staring down a plateful of tofu moose!!!
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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She had taken over a plateful of freshly baked cookies.
Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011
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This time I hit the FSB fringe buffet, where I managed not only to down a plateful of sandwiches and assorted foodstuffs in record time, but I also succeeded in escaping the room with a coffee before the meeting began.
Saturday musings 2009
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She had taken over a plateful of freshly baked cookies.
Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011
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There was a generous plateful of swordfish carpaccio with lemon and rocket to lighten things and, at the heavier end, grilled discs of Majorcan salami sobrasada to spread on walnut toast.
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