📖 plate

noun

1. a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
2. (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”
3. dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
4. a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

See also: dental platedenturehomehome basehome platescaleshell

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