1. (noun)home plate, home base, home, plate (baseball) base consisting of a rubberslab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a baserunner in order to score "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"
7. (noun)Plate a piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashionplate
8. (noun)Plate a page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates
9. (noun)Plate that part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc
10. (noun)Plate a horizontaltimber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roofplate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters
14. (verb)Plate to cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping
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