We'd like to split it. Could you bring it to us on two plates?
In recent years, with a method called VLBI that uses quasar observations, and by GPS we have begun to understand the absolute movement of tectonic plates.
We're all going to share it. Could you bring us some extra plates?
The dirty plates in the restaurant disgusted us.
I almost dropped the plates.
We must wash all these dirty plates.
Our picnic plates are made of plastic.
We call these slabs of the solid-rock layer 'plates'.