plate
1. (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands;
it must be touched by a base runner in order to score (Freq. 6)
- he ruled that the runner failed to touch home
• Syn:
home plate, home base, home
• Topics:
baseball, baseball game
• Hypernyms:
base, bag
2. a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic (Freq. 4)
• Hypernyms:
sheet, flat solid
• Hyponyms:
baffle, baffle board, cylinder head, damper, disk,
disc, engraving, escutcheon, fin keel, fishplate, grid,
storage-battery grid, gusset, gusset plate, lamella, license plate, numberplate,
numberplate, nameplate, plate iron, platen, pleximeter,
plessimeter, tap
3. a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper) (Freq. 3)
• Hypernyms:
illustration
• Hyponyms:
fashion plate
4. dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten (Freq. 3)
• Hypernyms:
flatware
• Hyponyms:
dessert plate, dinner plate, paper plate, salad plate, salad bowl,
soup plate, steel plate
5. the quantity contained in a plate (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
plateful
• Hypernyms:
containerful
6. the thin under portion of the forequarter
• Hypernyms:
cut of beef
7. a main course served on a plate
- a vegetable plate
- the blue plate special
• Hypernyms:
entree, main course
8. any flat platelike body structure or part
• Hypernyms:
structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
• Hyponyms:
operculum, comb, frill, lamina
9. the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
• Hypernyms:
anode
• Part Holonyms:
tube, vacuum tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic tube, electron tube, thermionic valve
10. structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
• Hypernyms:
structural member
• Hyponyms:
wall plate
• Part Holonyms:
structure, construction
11. a shallow receptacle for collection in church
• Syn:
collection plate
• Hypernyms:
receptacle
12. a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
• Syn:
photographic plate
• Hypernyms:
sheet, flat solid
• Hyponyms:
quarter plate
13. a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
• Syn:
denture, dental plate
• Derivationally related forms:
denturist (for: denture)
• Hypernyms:
dental appliance
• Hyponyms:
bridge, bridgework, false teeth, partial denture
14. a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
• Syn:
crustal plate
• Hypernyms:
crust, Earth's crust
15. a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
• Syn:
scale, shell
• Hypernyms:
shield
• Hyponyms:
armor plate, armour plate, armor plating, plate armor, plate armour,
horseshoe, shoe, shell plating
coat with a layer of metal
- plate spoons with silver
• Derivationally related forms:
plater, plating
• Hypernyms:
coat, surface
• Hyponyms:
tin, silver, nickel, electroplate, chrome,
chromium-plate, goldplate, gold-plate, gold plate, silverplate, silver-plate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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