plate
n 1: (baseball) a rubber slab that must be touched by a base
runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner
failed to touch home" [syn: {home plate}, {home}]
2: a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
3: a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
4: on which food is served or from which food is eaten
5: the quantity contained in a plate [syn: {plateful}]
6: a rigid layer of the lithosphere that is believed to drift
slowly
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: a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image
can be recorded [syn: {photographic plate}]
11: a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
12: a shallow receptacle for collection in church [syn: {collection
plate}]
13: a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield
attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
[syn: {scale}, {shell}]
14: 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" [syn:
{catcher}]
v : coat with a layer of metal