dry plate

American  

noun

1. a glass photographic plate coated with a sensitive emulsion of silver bromide and silver iodide in gelatin.

2. Metallurgy. tin plate having patches of dull finish.

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Etymology

Origin of dry plate

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

Oxymel produced a dry plate that could be kept for days.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2014

“You’ll have a new barn in no time,” I said, wiping an already dry plate with a towel.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Quarter of a century later, with the introduction of the dry plate and the gelatine film, a new start was made.

From The Future of Astronomy by Pickering, Edward Charles

Thus every complete revolution of the central wheel in the floor of the box carries with it the dry plate, stops it, and moves it on again six times.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 by Various

The English present the head whole, or cut into quarters, upon a dry plate; the guests picking off the scales one by one, which have a fleshy substance at the base.

From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Burr, Fearing