Plate
[n] 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"
[n] a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
[n] (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] dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
[n] a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
[n] a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
[n] a shallow receptacle for collection in church
[n] structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
[n] a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
[n] a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
[n] the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
[n] any flat platelike body structure or part
[n] a main course served on a plate; "a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special"
[n] the thin under portion of the forequarter
[n] a rigid layer of the lithosphere that is believed to drift slowly
[n] the quantity contained in a plate
[v] coat with a layer of metal
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