1. (noun)home plate, home base, home, plate (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"
2. (noun)plate a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
3. (noun)plate a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
4. (noun)plate dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
5. (noun)plate, plateful the quantity contained in a plate
6. (noun)plate, crustal plate a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
7. (noun)plate the thin under portion of the forequarter
8. (noun)plate a main course served on a plate
"a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special"
9. (noun)plate any flat platelike body structure or part
10. (noun)plate the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
11. (noun)plate, photographic plate a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
12. (noun)plate structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
13. (noun)plate, collection plate a shallow receptacle for collection in church
14. (noun)plate, scale, shell a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
15. (noun)denture, dental plate, plate a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
16. (verb)plate coat with a layer of metal
"plate spoons with silver"
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