Examples of plate

• My plate was already full.

• He heaped more food onto his plate.

• I gave her a plate of food but she pushed it aside.

• I promised to replace the plate that I'd dropped.

• All the plates were old and chipped.

• The wooden beam is reinforced with a metal plate.

• The printing plates have to be inked before they will print on the paper.

• The boots had protective metal plates across the ankles.

• The damaged hull of the ship was repaired with steel plates.

• The body of a crustacean is covered in protective plates.

• Half-tone illustrations, requiring art paper plates, will be accepted in special circumstances.

• The effect of the virus on host fitness was computed from the sum of the numbers of colonies counted on the duplicate competition plates.

• In contrast, larvae from control plates remained alive and with vigorous movement throughout the assessment period.

• Viability tests involved streaking of an aliquot of the suspension on sterile plates containing the appropriate nutrient medium for each species.

• Many of these are illustrated in the eighteen colour plates and eight monochrome figures.

• The numbers afterwards are issued in volumes each containing four numbers and amounting to between 400 and 500 pages, with plates and figures.

• Importantly, however, most of the cells in these cell lines were capable to form spheres when cultured in low-binding plates even in the serum-containing medium.

• The plates were incubated at room temperature for 60 min and washed before a substrate solution was added.

• Worms, transferred to microtitre plates using insect pins, were placed individually in the bottom of a well containing 200 l of water.

• The wells in each of the 3 types of plates were filled with approximately 15 ml of distilled water.

• The moving ampoule blow against metal plates created the impulse acceleration.

• The ilmenite grains generally form dendritic plates (arrowed) in contrast to the euhedral orthopyroxene grains.

• The limestones are pure calcarenites lacking siliciclastic detritus and containing a distinctive fossil assemblage of crinoid plates, algal grains, corals, ammonoids, brachiopods and fusulinids.

• Batteries are housed in the end cap, and these supply heaters that warm heater plates in the oil chamber.

• Mountains, molecules, and tectonic plates, for example, exist and would exist if there had never been any humans or animals.