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wallplate

wallplate is the alternative form of wall plate.

Meaning of wall plate

Noun

wall plate (plural wall plates)

  1. A piece of timber laid horizontally in or on a wall as a support for a girder, rafter, or joist.
  2. A plate mounted to a wall as a housing.
    • Wallplate sockets may become obstructed when a room is repainted; be sure the gold contacts inside the socket are clean.1995, David Hakala, Modems made easy: the basics and beyond!, page 237

Forms of wallplate

pluralwallplates

Questions about wallplate

What is wallplate the alternative form of?
Wallplate is the alternative form of wall plate.

Words near wallplate in the dictionary

  1. wallpeppers
  2. wallpiece
  3. wallpieces
  4. wallplant
  5. wallplants
  6. wallplate
  7. wallplates
  8. wallplug
  9. wallplugs
  10. wallpress
  11. wallpresses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wallplate (page history and authors); wall plate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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