Hyphenation of plates

Are you trying to hyphenate plates? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.

plates

Definitions of plates:

1.	(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands It must be touched by a base runner in order to score He ruled that the runner failed to touch home
2.	A sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
3.	A full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
4.	Dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
5.	The quantity contained in a plate
6.	A rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
7.	The thin under portion of the forequarter
8.	A main course served on a plate A vegetable plate The blue plate special
9.	Any flat platelike body structure or part
10.	The positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
11.	A flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
12.	Structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
13.	A shallow receptacle for collection in church
14.	A metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
15.	A dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
16.	Coat with a layer of metal Plate spoons with silver

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.