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