plate up


verb(adverb)
  1. to put food on a plate, ready for serving

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How to use plate up in a sentence

  • "Ye needna lick the posies aff," the wifie said, good humoredly, as she picked the plate up to wash it.

    Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor Atkinson
  • Now, feeling the collar under the thatch, he slipped it out and brought the brass plate up to the light.

    Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor Atkinson
  • It floated the plate up, the air hit the vanes and spun the plate—and it ran as sweet as honey!

    Space Platform | Murray Leinster
  • His thin hand, on which veins rose in a bas relief, held the plate up tremulously against the light.

    The Guests Of Hercules | C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
  • My lifelong ambition was to make ships from the keel-plate up.

    The Cup of Fury | Rupert Hughes