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Open English Wordnet Nouns (n) 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”
(n) plate a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
(n) plate a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
(n) plate dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
(n) plate , crustal plate a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
(n) plate the thin under portion of the forequarter
(n) plate a main course served on a plate “a vegetable plate” ,
“the blue plate special”
(n) plate any flat platelike body structure or part
(n) plate the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
(n) plate structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
(n) plate , scale , shell a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
Verbs (v) plate coat with a layer of metal “plate spoons with silver”
