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:
“There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education, and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves ... beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others ... and at the same time attesting facts, performed in such a public manner, and in so celebrated a part of the world, as to render the detection unavoidable.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“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)