(chiefly US, dated) A popular meal offered at a reduced price, usually in inexpensive eateries and often on a plate divided into compartments for different food items.

plural of blue-plate special

plural of blue plate special

A license plate whose identifier is chosen by the registering owner, typically to spell out an abbreviated word or phrase.

(philately) A United States postage stamp with the number of the printing plate or plates printed on it.

plural of plate number coil

(rail transport) (or more simply, Nickel Plate) a name given to, and actually used by the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad.

(architecture) The space available for use by commercial tenants within an office building.

(UK) Any of several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education.

(anatomy) A long narrow plate that forms the medial part of the pterygoid process, terminates in the pterygoid hamulus, and forms with its lateral surface part of the pterygoid fossa and with its medial surface the lateral boundary of a choana.