A number plate may be:
- a vehicle registration plate
- a plate attached to a locomotive indicating their number, particularly in the UK and Australia, which are often collected as memorabilia.
- a plate attached to the front or sides of racing vehicle denoting the ranking level of the racer at the end of the previous racing season
Famous quotes containing the words number and/or plate:
“I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.”
—Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)
“I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the “mainstream” culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn’t think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.”
—Jan Clausen (b. 1943)