Plate - Definition

n 1: (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"
[syn: home plate, home base, home, plate]
2: a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
3: a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
4: dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
5: the quantity contained in a plate [syn: plate, plateful]
6: a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift
slowly [syn: plate, crustal plate]
7: the thin under portion of the forequarter
8: a main course served on a plate; "a vegetable plate"; "the
blue plate special"
9: any flat platelike body structure or part
10: the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
11: a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image
can be recorded [syn: plate, photographic plate]
12: structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that
provides bearing and anchorage
13: a shallow receptacle for collection in church [syn: plate,
collection plate]
14: a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield
attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) [syn:
plate, scale, shell]
15: a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
[syn: denture, dental plate, plate]
v 1: coat with a layer of metal; "plate spoons with silver"