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Defenition of the word plate

    • Defenition of the word plate

      • Metal sheet for alphanumerical identification of vehicles, on their front and/or rear parts.
      • A dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten.
      • To coat a surface with a metal sheet, in general of a precious kind.
      • the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws; "a catcher needs a lot of protective equipment"; "he plays behind the plate"
      • (baseball) a rubber slab that must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"
      • on which food is served or from which food is eaten
      • a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
      • a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
      • a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
      • any flat platelike body structure or part
      • a main course served on a plate: "a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special"
      • the thin under portion of the forequarter
      • a rigid layer of the lithosphere that is believed to drift slowly
      • coat with a layer of metal
      • a shallow receptacle for collection in church
      • a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
      • the quantity contained in a plate
      • 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
      • (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"
      • dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
      • structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
      • the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
      • a main course served on a plate; "a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special"
      • a rigid layer of the Earth''s crust that is believed to drift slowly
      • coat with a layer of metal; "plate spoons with silver"
      • (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
      • a main course served on a plate
      • a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly

    Synonyms for the word plate

      • catcher
      • collection plate
      • home
      • home plate
      • photographic plate
      • plateful
      • scale
      • shell

    Meronymys for the word plate

      • baseball team
      • construction
      • electron tube
      • structure
      • thermionic tube
      • thermionic vacuum tube
      • thermionic valve
      • tube
      • vacuum tube

    Hyponyms for the word plate

      • armor plate
      • armor plating
      • armour plate
      • baffle
      • baffle board
      • bridge
      • bridgework
      • chrome
      • chromium-plate
      • comb
      • cylinder head
      • damper
      • dessert plate
      • dinner plate
      • disc
      • disk
      • electroplate
      • engraving
      • escutcheon
      • false teeth
      • fashion plate
      • fin keel
      • fishplate
      • frill
      • gold plate
      • gold-plate
      • goldplate
      • grid
      • gusset
      • gusset plate
      • horseshoe
      • L-plate
      • lamella
      • lamina
      • license plate
      • nameplate
      • nickel
      • numberplate
      • operculum
      • paper plate
      • partial denture
      • plate armor
      • plate armour
      • plate iron
      • platen
      • plessimeter
      • pleximeter
      • quarter plate
      • salad bowl
      • salad plate
      • shell plating
      • shoe
      • silver
      • silver-plate
      • silverplate
      • soup plate
      • steel plate
      • storage-battery grid
      • tap
      • tin
      • wall plate

    Hypernyms for the word plate

      • anatomical structure
      • anode
      • bag
      • base
      • bodily structure
      • body structure
      • coat
      • complex body part
      • containerful
      • crust
      • cut of beef
      • dental appliance
      • dish
      • Earth's crust
      • entree
      • flat solid
      • flatware
      • geosphere
      • illustration
      • lithosphere
      • main course
      • position
      • receptacle
      • sheet
      • shield
      • structural member
      • structure
      • surface

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