"plates" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Part of speech Translation Actions
套牌车 套牌車 tào pái chē car with fake plates
拼版 pīn bǎn to typeset / to make up (printers' plates)
thin plates of metal
凸版印刷 tū bǎn yìn shuā relief printing / typography / printing with metal plates
分餐 fēn cān to eat individual meals (rather than taking one's food from plates served to everyone at the table)
卡西米尔效应 卡西米爾效應 kǎ xī mǐ ěr xiào yìng Casimir effect (attraction between two parallel metal plates due to quantum mechanical vacuum effects)
大陆块 大陸塊 dà lù kuài continental plates (geology)
展平 zhǎn píng to flatten out (paper, film, metal plates etc)
潜没 潛沒 qián mò to submerge / to subduct (of tectonic plates)
盘碗 盤碗 pán wǎn dishes / crockery / plates and cups
硅铝质 硅鋁質 guī lǚ zhì sial rock (containing silicon and aluminium, so comparatively light, making continental plates)
铁镁质 鐵鎂質 tiě měi zhì mafic rock (containing magnesium and iron, so comparatively heavy, making oceanic plates)
杯盘狼籍 bēi pán láng jí (idiom) Describes cups, plates, and other tableware scattered in complete disorder. It refers to the state of a table at or near the end of a feast.
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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