Integer and Plate

noun

• Any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero.
  • usage: "an integer is a number that is not a fraction"
  • synonyms: whole number

(n.) A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number.

noun

• Baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score. (
  • usage: "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"
  • synonyms: home plate, home base, home
• A sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic.
• A full-page illustration (usually on slick paper. )
• Dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten.
• The quantity contained in a plate.
  • synonyms: plateful
• A rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly.
  • synonyms: crustal plate
• The thin under portion of the forequarter.
• A main course served on a plate.
  • usage: "a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special"
• Any flat platelike body structure or part.
• The positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube.
• A flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded.
  • synonyms: photographic plate
• Structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage.
• A shallow receptacle for collection in church.
  • synonyms: collection plate
• A metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners.
  • synonyms: scale, shell
• A dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth.
  • synonyms: denture, dental plate

verb

• Coat with a layer of metal.
  • usage: "plate spoons with silver"

• (n.) Loosely, a sporting contest for a prize; specifically, in horse racing, a race for a prize, the contestants not making a stake.
• (n.) A very light steel racing horsehoe.
• (n.) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewed together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
• (n.) One of the thin parts of the bricket of an animal.
• (n.) A small five-sided area (enveloping a diamond-shaped area one foot square) beside which the batter stands and which must be touched by some part of a player on completing a run; -- called also home base or home plate.
• (n.) The fine nap (as of beaver, hare's wool, musquash, nutria or English black wool) on a hat the body of which is of an inferior substance.
• (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.
• (v.t.) To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.
• (n.) A page of stereotype, electrotype or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.
• (n.) Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.
• (v.t.) To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.
• (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.
• (n.) A piece of money, usually silver money.
• (n.) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
• (n.) A prize giving to the winner in a contest.
• (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.
• (n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters.
• (n.) A flat or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.
• (n.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.
• (n.) A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate.
• (n.) Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.
• (n.) Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold.
• (v.t.) To calender; as, to plate paper.
• (v.t.) To beat into thin, flat pieces or laminae.

(DoD, NATO) In cartography: a. a printing plate of zinc, aluminum, or engraved copper; b. collective term for all "states" of an engraved map reproduced from the same engraved printing plate; c. all detail to appear on a map or chart which will be reproduced from a single printing plate (e.g., the "blue plate" or the "contour plate").
(DoD, NATO) In photography, a transparent medium, usually glass, coated with a photographic emulsion. See also diapositive.

plate is a horizontal member used to top a partition wall, porch posts, or dormer walls.