tin plate
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- noun
- /tɪn pleɪt/
:
plato de estaño
- Fagin shook his head amusedly, then looked at his food again and soured on it once and for all, dropping his fork and knife onto the tin plate and pushing the thing away except for the cornbread.
Examples
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She'd cut Ann's fried bread into perfect squares, spreading the jam smooth and clear to the corners, and serve it on a tin plate that invariably would be sent sailing across the room.
Fiction book (2000) -
"Right!" beamed Mrs. Babbidge, handing Becca one tin plate with a strip of elastic taped across the back.
Fiction book (1997) -
The people of Cuba point thumbs down, each one eating off a tin plate in front of the TV.
Blog text (15) -
He removes the meat from the pan and forks it onto a tin plate.
Fiction book (2001) -
Thoughtfully, he drummed his fingers on the table and mused, rather disconsolately, as Ben slid a battered tin plate in front of him.
Fiction book (1996) -
At dinnertime, Sheriff Blood was eating his tin plate serving of meatloaf and rice at a picnic table set apart from the long bench rows of off-duty marshals and agents hungrily chowing down.
Fiction book (1995) -
I should mention that in the same Mende village where I photographed the kambei figure, I was also shown what looked like a miniature Sowei mask (Fig. 6) sitting on a white cloth on a tin plate.
Academic text (1993) -
The campers used a tin plate to serve their meals around the fire.
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She carefully stacked the clean tin plates neatly in the cupboard after doing the dishes.
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For lunch, he filled his tin plate with beans and rice at the food truck.
Synonyms
A thin metal sheet covered with tin to stop it from rusting, used to make cans and pots
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The noun tin plate comes from the real thing: a thin plate of iron or steel covered with tin to stop it from rusting. That's why tin plate means the metal sheets people use to make cans and kitchen things.