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plate is a noun and verb meaning "(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score". It carries 16 recorded senses.
(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”
baseball
a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
the quantity contained in a plate
a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
the thin under portion of the forequarter
a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
a shallow receptacle for collection in church
a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for plate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.