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List of meaning for plate

home plate, home base, home, plate(noun)

(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score

"he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"

plate(noun)

a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic

plate(noun)

a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)

plate(noun)

dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten

plate, plateful(noun)

the quantity contained in a plate

plate, crustal plate(noun)

a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly

plate(noun)

the thin under portion of the forequarter

plate(noun)

a main course served on a plate

"a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special"

plate(noun)

any flat platelike body structure or part

plate(noun)

the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube

plate, photographic plate(noun)

a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded

plate(noun)

structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage

plate, collection plate(noun)

a shallow receptacle for collection in church

plate, scale, shell(noun)

a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

denture, dental plate, plate(verb)

a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth

plate(verb)

coat with a layer of metal

"plate spoons with silver"

a small thin piece of material that resembles an animal scale

the tiny silver plates on the brooch are arranged to look like fish scales

something that visually explains or decorates a text

the book's color plate illustrates the internal organs of the human body

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