nameplate

name +‎ plate

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.

   • 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.

2. The masthead of a newspaper.

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• plane-mate