plateless
Lacking serving ware
Plateless means without a plate or plates.
It describes dining without dishes a plateless picnic eaten straight from containers, vehicles lacking license plates a plateless car aroused suspicion, or in technical contexts, equipment missing its usual plate component.
The word appears most often in casual descriptions of informal eating arrangements.
Vessels for serving meals
- crockeryHousehold ceramic dishes
- bowlsDeep rounded containers
- cupsSmall drinking containers
- mugsCylindrical drinking vessels
saucers · platters · trays · napkins · cutlery · flatware · minimalist · tapas
Lacking protective barrier
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- exposedOut in open
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- unarmoredLacking protective covering
unfortified · undefended · susceptible · open · fragile · assailable · bare · uncovered
Lacking protective covering
- chainmailArmor of linked rings
- leatherTanned animal skin
- brigandinePlate-lined cloth armor
- hauberkChain mail tunic
padded · quilted · mail · lamellar · scale · flexible · mobile · agile
Movie or coating
- analogComparable equivalent
- pinholeMinute circular opening
- daguerreotypeFirst commercial photography method
- digitalOf discrete data
mirrorless · sensor · cameraphone · instant · polaroid
dinnerware
Vessels for serving meals
mugs · saucers · platters · trays · napkins · cutlery · flatware · minimalist · tapas · mezze
unshielded
Lacking protective barrier
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- exposedOut in open
- defenselessWithout means to resist
unarmored · unfortified · undefended · susceptible · open · fragile · assailable · bare · uncovered
unarmored
Lacking protective covering
- chainmailArmor of linked rings
- leatherTanned animal skin
- brigandinePlate-lined cloth armor
hauberk · padded · quilted · mail · lamellar · scale · flexible · mobile · agile · unencumbered
film
Movie or coating
- analogComparable equivalent
- pinholeMinute circular opening
- daguerreotypeFirst commercial photography method
digital · mirrorless · sensor · cameraphone · instant · polaroid