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English to English noun
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(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score |  | Example: he ruled that the runner failed to touch home
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a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic | | source: wordnet30
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a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper) | | source: wordnet30
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dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten | | source: wordnet30
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the quantity contained in a plate | | source: wordnet30
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a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly | | source: wordnet30
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the thin under portion of the forequarter | | source: wordnet30
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a main course served on a plate | | Example: a vegetable plate
the blue plate special
source: wordnet30
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any flat platelike body structure or part | | source: wordnet30
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the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube | | source: wordnet30
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a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded | | source: wordnet30
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structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage | | source: wordnet30
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a shallow receptacle for collection in church | | source: wordnet30
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a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) | | source: wordnet30
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a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth | | source: wordnet30
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A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate. | | source: webster1913
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A small five-sided area (enveloping a diamond- shaped area one foot square) beside which the batter stands and which must be touched by some part of a player on completing a run; -- called also home base, or home plate. | | source: webster1913 verb
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coat with a layer of metal | | Example: plate spoons with silver
source: wordnet30
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To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping. | | source: webster1913
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