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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"
"he plays behind the plate"
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a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teethsubstantiv
(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter standsit must be touched by a base runner in order to score
"he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"
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dish on which food is served or from which food is eatensubstantiv
a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)substantiv
a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plasticsubstantiv
a shallow receptacle for collection in churchsubstantiv
structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchoragesubstantiv
a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)substantiv
a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recordedsubstantiv
the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tubesubstantiv
any flat platelike body structure or partsubstantiv
a main course served on a plate"a vegetable plate"
"the blue plate special"
"the blue plate special"
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the thin under portion of the forequartersubstantiv
a rigid layer of the Earth''s crust that is believed to drift slowlysubstantiv
the quantity contained in a plateverb
coat with a layer of metal"plate spoons with silver"
Sinonime:
(substantiv) denture, home, plateful, scale, shell