A form of body modification, among various tribes, in which increasingly large discs (usually circular, and made from clay or wood) are inserted into a pierced hole in one or both lips in order to stretch them.

plural of stir plate

to plate an object with a thin coat of nickel

present participle of nickel-plate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nickel-plate

plural of nail plate

(India) A full meal with a fixed set of dishes as components, often but not necessarily served at a restaurant.

plural of weight plate

A typically disk-shaped device with a perforation in the centre for being united with a weight bar and thus adding mass to it to enable weightlifting exercises (gradated according to a standard measurement scale for mass if the implement is commercially provided; sometimes also used alone for exercises)

plural of growth plate