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名詞

nameplate (plural nameplates)

1. 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.

   • 1960 May, “Evening Star”, in Railway Magazine, pages 307-308:

     Mr. K. W. C. Grand, Member of the B.T.C., and formerly General Manager of the Western Region, then unveiled one of the nameplates of No. 92220, to the applause of the large number of railwaymen and guests present.

   • 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.

   • 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27:

     By March 1994, it had moved to Cardiff Canton, and was still allocated there when its nameplates were taken off in March 1997.

2. The masthead of a newspaper.

別の表記

• name plate

派生語

• nameplated
• nameplating

アナグラム

• plane-mate