Cuttoo plate () A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle. |
Disk (n.) A discus |
Disk (n.) A flat, circular plate |
Disk (n.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens. |
Disk (n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals |
Disk (n.) The whole surface of a leaf. |
Disk (n.) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower. |
Disk (n.) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil. |
Disk (n.) The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones. |
Disk (n.) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk. |
Disk (n.) In owls, the space around the eyes. |
Notched (imp. & p. p.) of Notch |
Plate (n.) A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions |
Plate (n.) Metallic armor composed of broad pieces. |
Plate (n.) Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver. |
Plate (n.) Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold. |
Plate (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. |
Plate (n.) A piece of money, usually silver money. |
Plate (n.) A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed |
Plate (n.) A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from |
Plate (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. |
Plate (n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers |
Plate (n.) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent. |
Plate (n.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light. |
Plate (n.) A prize giving to the winner in a contest. |
Plate (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. |
Plate (v. t.) To cover or overlay with plates of metal |
Plate (v. t.) To adorn with plated metal |
Plate (v. t.) To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae. |
Plate (v. t.) To calender |
Plate-gilled (a.) Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks. |
Water plate () A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket. |
spin the plate spin the platter | a game in which something round (as a plate) is spun on edge and the name of a player is called, the named player must catch the spinning object before it falls or pay a forfeit |
ctene comb-plate | a locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused |
acetate disk phonograph recording disk | a disk coated with cellulose acetate |
armor plate armour plate armor plating plate armor plate armour | specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire |
bite plate biteplate | a removable dental appliance that is worn in the palate for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes |
brake disk | a disk or plate that is fixed to the wheel, pressure is applied to it by the brake pads |
compact disk compact disc CD | a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record, played back by a laser |
compact-disk burner CD burner | recording equipment for making compact disks |
cover plate | covering consisting of a plate used to cover over or close in a chamber or receptacle |
denture dental plate plate | a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth |
dessert plate | a small plate on which dessert can be served |
dinner plate | a plate from which a diner eats during the main course of a meal |
disk disc | a flat circular plate |
disk access | memory access to the computer disk on which information is stored |
disk brake disc brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads |
disk cache | a cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slower disk |
disk clutch | a friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are disks |
disk controller | (computer science) a circuit or chip that translates commands into a form that can control a hard disk drive |
disk drive disc drive hard drive Winchester drive | computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it |
diskette floppy floppy disk | a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit, used to store data or programs for a microcomputer, floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price |
disk harrow disc harrow | a harrow with a series of disks set on edge at an angle |
fashion plate | a plate illustrating the latest fashion in dress |
finger plate escutcheon scutcheon | a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers |
gold plate | a thin plating of gold on something |
gold plate | tableware that is plated with gold |
gusset gusset plate | a metal plate used to strengthen a joist |
hard disc hard disk fixed disk | a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit |
home plate home base home plate | (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands, it must be touched by a base runner in order to score, he ruled that the runner failed to touch home |
hot plate hotplate | a portable electric appliance for heating or cooking or keeping food warm |
license plate numberplate | a plate mounted on the front and back of car and bearing the car's registration number |
L-plate | a square plate bearing the letter L that is attached to both ends of a car to indicate that the driver is a learner |
magnetic disk magnetic disc disk disc | (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored |
optical disk optical disc | a disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface, is read with a laser that scans the surface |
paper plate | a disposable plate made of cardboard |
phonograph record phonograph recording record disk disc platter | sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove, used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove |
plate | dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten |
plate scale shell | a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) |
plate | a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic |
plate collection plate | a shallow receptacle for collection in church |
plate | structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage |
plate | a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper) |
plate photographic plate | a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded |
plate | the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube |
plate glass sheet glass | glass formed into large thin sheets |
plate iron | a plate of iron |
plate rack | a rack for holding plates to dry after they have been washed |
plate rail | rail or narrow shelf fixed to a wall to display plates |
quarter plate | a photographic plate measuring . inches by . inches |
RAM disk | (computer science) a virtual drive that is created by setting aside part of the random-access memory to use as if it were a group of sectors, access to a RAM disk is very fast but the data it contains is lost when the system is turned off |
Rayleigh disk | an acoustic radiometer consisting of a light disk suspended from a quartz thread, when exposed to a progressive sound wave its torque can measure velocity |