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plate   (TTS Sound)

The noun plate has 15 senses

• 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")


• plate -- (a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic)


• plate -- (a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper))


• plate -- (dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten)


• plate, plateful -- (the quantity contained in a plate)


• plate, crustal plate -- (a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly)


• plate -- (the thin under portion of the forequarter)


• plate -- (a main course served on a plate; "a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special")


• plate -- (any flat platelike body structure or part)


• plate -- (the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube)


• plate, photographic plate -- (a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded)


• plate -- (structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage)


• plate, collection plate -- (a shallow receptacle for collection in church)


• plate, scale, shell -- (a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners))


• denture, dental plate, plate -- (a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth)

The verb plate has 1 sense

• plate -- (coat with a layer of metal; "plate spoons with silver")