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noun(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
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nouna metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)type of:
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nouna flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
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nouna shallow receptacle for collection in church
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nounthe quantity contained in a plate
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nouna dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
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nouna rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
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nouna full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)type of:
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nouna main course served on a platetype of:
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nounany flat platelike body structure or part
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nouna sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastictype of:
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verbcoat with a layer of metal
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noundish on which food is served or from which food is eatentype of:
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nounstructural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchoragetype of:part of:
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nounthe positively charged electrode in a vacuum tubetype of:
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nounthe thin under portion of the forequartertype of:
Examples of plate
- "a vegetable plate"
- "the blue plate special"
- "plate spoons with silver"