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