plate — meaning in English

English meaning

• flat adj Level and even, with no slope, bumps, or curves.
• still adj Not moving; calm and motionless.

Senses

plate is used for these senses in English:

• flat (figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
• still Not effervescing; not sparkling.

flat — full definition

1. adj Level and even, with no slope, bumps, or curves.
2. adj Unchanging or without variation, especially in sales, tone, or energy.
3. adj Of a tyre, deflated, usually because of a puncture.
4. adj Of a drink, having lost its fizz.
5. adj In music, lower in pitch than the correct note, or (of a written note) lowered by a semitone.

still — full definition

1. adj Not moving; calm and motionless.
2. adj Continuing to be the case up to now, often unexpectedly.
3. noun Apparatus used to distill liquids, especially alcoholic spirits.
4. noun A single photograph, especially one taken from a film.
5. verb To make calm or quiet.

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