<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a large, shallow dish, usually elliptical in shape, for holding and serving food, especially meat or fish</li><li>a course of a meal, usually consisting of a variety of foods served on the same plate</li><li>(Slang) a phonograph record</li><li>(Computers) a hard disk, the rigid circular plate that rotates on a spindle within a hard disk drive, for data encoding and retrieval</li><li>(Movie Slang) a part of a motion-picture projector, consisting of a large, horizontally rotating disk that houses a feature film</li></ul>