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PLATE
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a smooth or polished plate of metal, etc., bearing a name or inscription, for affixing to anything. Plates commemorating wellknown persons associated with a college are sometimes placed on the outside of the buildings. NED Approved Glossary
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(1) (photography) a flat, thin sheet of metal or glass or other rigid material coated with a material sensitive to light. And he can go through all of the menial jobs he wants to in the field of photography, cleaning plates and all the rest of those things, through to the last bitter end of the thing and he will never become a top-notch photographer. -A Summary of Study (4 Aug. 64) (2) (printing) a piece of metal, plastic, etc., in a printing press, which is inked and transfers an impression to the paper. Now, that technology-boy, boy! You start doing something a little bit haywire with that one or you start doing something a little bit offbeat in the way you take your separation negatives-you know, the red negative, the green negative and the yellow negative that you've got to take of this thing in order to get three printing plates to run through the presses, you know, so that each one superimposed on the other one and-ooooooh, boy! -A Review of Study (22 Sept. 64) (1) (photography) a flat, thin sheet of metal or glass or other rigid material coated with a material sensitive to light. And he can go through all of the menial jobs he wants to in the field of photography, cleaning plates and all the rest of those things, through to the last bitter end of the thing and he will never become a top-notch photographer. - A Summary of Study (4 Aug. 64) (2) (printing) a piece of metal, plastic, etc., in a printing press, which is inked and transfers an impression to the paper. You start doing something a little bit haywire with that one or you start doing something a little bit offbeat in the way you take your separation negativesTyou know, the red negative, the green negative and the yellow negative that you've got to take of this thing in order to get three printing plates to run through the presses, you know, so that each one superimposed on the other one andTooooooh, boy! - A Review of Study (22 Sept. 64) a smooth or polished plate of metal, etc., bearing a name or inscription, for affixing to anything. Plates commemorating well-known persons associated with a college are sometimes placed on the outside of the buildings.a thin, flat sheet or piece of metal or other materials, especially of uniform thickness. (photography) a sheet of glass, metal, etc., coated with a film sensitive to light, upon which the image is formed.