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 will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding—joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“Then he rang the bell and ordered a ham sandwich. When the maid placed the plate on the table, he deliberately looked away but as soon as the door had shut, he grabbed the sandwich with both hands, immediately soiled his fingers and chin with the hanging margin of fat and, grunting greedily, began to much.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)