nameplate
English
Etymology
name + plate
Noun
nameplate (plural nameplates)
- A plate or plaque inscribed with a name.
- the nameplate on a locomotive
- the brass nameplate on the doctor's front door
- 1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350:
- No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.
- 1998 December 18, Peter Margasak, “Punk Planet's New Atmosphere”, in Chicago Reader:
- Now the chintzy nameplate is all that distinguishes his work space from those of the photocopier repairperson, diet food company, and kitchen designer down the hall.
- The masthead of a newspaper.
Derived terms
- nameplated
- nameplating
Translations
A plate or plaque inscribed with a name
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Anagrams
- plane-mate