Meaning of "plate"

plate •

n.
• • 1. a dish, usually round, that is almost flat: plato, pinggan
  • 2. small plate (sauce): platito
  • 3. food served to one person at a meal: isang platong pagkain, putahe
  • 4. dishes : mga pinggan
  • 5. a piece of metal or other form of material with false teeth set into it: pustiso
  • 6. a thin flat sheet or piece of metal: plantsa, ohas, pohas
  • 7. a thin, flat piece of metal on which something is engraved: klitse
  • 8. a thin sheet of glass coated with chemicals that are sensitive to light: plaka, negatibo
  • 9. in baseball, the homebase: hombeis, hombeys, lubigan, lubigang unan

v.
• • to cover with a thin layer of gold, silver or some other metal: magtubog (itubog) sa ginto (pilak)

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hugas

v.
• • maghugas, hugasan (mag-:-an) to wash. Maghugas ka ng plato. Wash the plate.

simot

adj.
• • picked up to the last grain or piece (from floor, soil, dish or container) entirely consumed, taken, or used simutin (-in)

v.
• • to scrape up. Sinimot niya ang natirang kanin sa pinggan. He scraped up all of the rice left on the plate.

pinggan

n.
• • plate, dish

plato

n.
• • plate