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Sounds | pley't |
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Rhymes | abate, abbreviate, abdicate, and 533 more rhymes in eyt at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic. |
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Narrower | baffle, baffle board; cylinder head; damper; disk, disc; engraving; escutcheon; fin keel; fishplate; gusset, gusset plate; lamella; license plate, numberplate; L-plate; nameplate; plate iron; platen; pleximeter, plessimeter; tap |
Broader | sheet, flat solid |
Verbs | plate |
Meaning | (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands. It must be touched by a base runner in order to score. |
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Synonyms | home plate, home base, home |
Category | baseball, baseball game, ball |
Broader | base, bag |
Meaning | A full-page illustration (usually on slick paper). |
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Narrower | fashion plate |
Broader | illustration |
Meaning | Dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten. |
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Narrower | dessert plate; dinner plate; paper plate; salad plate, salad bowl; soup plate; steel plate |
Broader | flatware |
Meaning | The quantity contained in a plate. |
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Synonyms | plateful |
Broader | containerful |
Meaning | A rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly. |
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Synonyms | crustal plate |
Broader | crust, Earth's crust |
Meaning | The thin under portion of the forequarter. |
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Broader | cut of beef |
Meaning | A main course served on a plate. |
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Examples | "a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special" |
Broader | entree, main course |
Meaning | Any flat platelike body structure or part. |
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Narrower | operculum; comb; lamina |
Broader | structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure |
Meaning | The positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube. |
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Part of | tube, vacuum tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic tube, electron tube, thermionic valve |
Broader | anode |
Meaning | A flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded. |
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Synonyms | photographic plate |
Narrower | quarter plate |
Broader | sheet, flat solid |
Meaning | Structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage. |
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Part of | structure, construction |
Narrower | wall plate |
Broader | structural member |
Meaning | A shallow receptacle for collection in church. |
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Synonyms | collection plate |
Broader | receptacle |
Meaning | A metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners). |
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Synonyms | scale, shell |
Narrower | armor plate, armour plate, armor plating, plate armor, plate armour; horseshoe, shoe; shell plating |
Broader | shield |
Meaning | A dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth. |
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Synonyms | denture, dental plate |
Narrower | bridge, bridgework; false teeth; partial denture |
Broader | dental appliance |
Meaning | The position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws. |
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Examples | "he plays behind the plate" |
Synonyms | catcher |
Member of | baseball team |
Broader | position |
Meaning | Coat with a layer of metal. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "plate spoons with silver" |
Narrower | tin; tin; silver; nickel; electroplate; chrome, chromium-plate; goldplate, gold-plate, gold plate; silverplate, silver-plate |
Broader | coat, surface |
Nouns | plating; plating; plate; plater |