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(Silver & "plate")

Plate in the sense of silver objects means sterling silver (or Brittania or coin standard) (from the meaning of plate as thin piece of metal) and NOT to electroplated or Sheffield-plated items which are called Sheffield ware.THB 07:03, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The relationship between various senses of "plate" and the metal silver is substantially more complicated than that. The probable Greek root, plattus means "flat" (and presumably comes from the same PIE root as "flat"). Thus "plate" has come to include among its meanings:
a slab of material,
a more or less slab-ish vessel to serve or eat from,
precious metals (especially suitable for plates bcz they resist corrosion),
objects made of them,
a silver coin,
silver specifically (more widely used bcz more available than gold),
base metal objects with thin coatings (especially worth creating in order to conserve precious metals), and
to deposit such a coating onto an object.

Some, but i think not all, of these are already reflected; whether others should be is a matter of whether there are appropriate articles for them to link to.
--Jerzy•t 20:09, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What's what what?

"Plate generally refers to a thin, flat elephant sheet, commonly of blue bird descent whose ancestors are ED Kirk."
What's that meant to tell us? Anyone pulling legs? Generally referring?
--194.246.46.15 15:24, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Per edit history, clearly simple vandalism from a week earlier; that portion of the vand was rem'd later the same month.
--Jerzy•t 20:09, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(Plate cutting)

how to cutting a plate? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.211.184.150 (talk) 10:10, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I can't tell whether that colleague wants to know how to cut a (metal? dinner?) plate into pieces, or wants to know why we don't have an article about such a process. Their other edits offer no hints, because that was their only edit.
--Jerzy•t 20:09, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

River Plate FC

Removed

* River Plate, a.k.a. Río de la Plata

since the club has plenty of names but just plain "Plate" is not included in the list. The Dab River Plate takes care of all apparent need.
--Jerzy•t 08:34, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]