dinner plate

collocation in English

meaningsofdinnerandplate

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dinner
noun
uk
/ˈdɪn.ər/us
/ˈdɪn.ɚ/
the main meal of the day, usually the meal you eat in the evening but sometimes, in Britain, the meal eaten in the middle of ...
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plate
noun
uk
/pleɪt/us
/pleɪt/
a flat, usually round dish with a slightly raised edge that you eat from or serve ...
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(Definition ofdinnerandplatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Tarantulas sizes range from as small as a fingernail to as large as adinnerplatewhen the legs are fully extended.
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But they need to know about the measures being taken to stop sub-clinical cases reaching their dinner plates.
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Perhaps they will begin to notice its effect on their dinner plates later in the year.
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A new machine, worked and served by only three persons, can now turn out 240 dozen dessert dishes, or 180 dozen dinner plates, in one hour.
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By a new machine all operations can be carried out—they do not need to use one machine and then another—and they can now produce 1,500 dinner plates per hour.
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The menu included a limited breakfast, sandwiches, baskets, and luncheon and dinner plates.
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No doubt the narrator is joking with mock-grandiosity about the possibility of the cook's hair showing up on hisdinnerplate.
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First, thousands of sheep and cattle are happily munching grass instead of heading towards the abattoir or thedinnerplate.
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These people have been fighting the battle of thedinnerplate, and all too often it has been an empty plate.
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Do not let these vested interests get their snout into yourdinnerplate.
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This crab is large, similar in size to adinnerplate.
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In either arrangement, the napkin may either rest folded underneath the forks, or it may be folded and placed on thedinnerplate.
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The dinner fork is placed immediately left of thedinnerplate; the salad fork is placed on the outer left side of the place setting.
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Their throats are only the size of a largedinnerplateor a volleyball.
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Flower forms are variable, with one head per stem; these can be as small as 2in cm diameter or up to 1ft cm (dinnerplate).
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Thedinnerplate-sized tortilla is baked, not fried, either on a "comal", a barbecue grill, or directly over coals.
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It may be served either on the skewer or in a pita sandwich with garnishes and sauces, or on adinnerplate, often with fried potatoes.
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It may be served on the skewer for eating out of hand, in a pita sandwich with garnishes and sauces, or on adinnerplate, often with fried potatoes.
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The company sold basic table service sets for four, six and eight persons, made up of the usualdinnerplate, salad plate, soup bowl, and cup and saucer.
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Likewise, lamp-stands are not designed to be used as blunt instruments, or dinner plates as projectiles, yet these can be contextually appropriate functions for such objects.
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