| Sounds | pley't | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | (baseball) base consisting of a rubber / rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | home plate, home base, home | |
| Category | baseball, baseball game, ball | A ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players |
| Broader | base, bag | A place that the runner must touch before scoring |
| Spanish | base meta | |
| Catalan | base de meta | |
| Meaning | A full-page illustration (usually on slick paper). | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | fashion plate | A plate illustrating the latest fashion in dress |
| Broader | illustration | A visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject / subject / subject more pleasing or easier to understand |
| Spanish | lámina | |
| Catalan | làmina | |
| Meaning | dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | dessert plate | A small plate on which dessert can be served |
| dinner plate | A plate from which a diner eats during the main course of a meal | |
| paper plate | A disposable plate made of cardboard | |
| salad plate, salad bowl | A plate or bowl for individual servings of salad | |
| soup plate | A deep plate with a wide rim | |
| steel plate | A plate of steel | |
| Broader | flatware | tableware that is relatively flat and fashioned as a single piece |
| Spanish | plato | |
| Catalan | plat | |
| Meaning | The quantity contained in a plate. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | plateful | |
| Broader | containerful | The quantity that a container will hold |
| Spanish | fuente, plato | |
| Catalan | plata, plàtera, plat | |
| Meaning | A rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | crustal plate | |
| Broader | crust, Earth's crust | The outer layer of the Earth |
| Meaning | The thin under portion of the forequarter. | |
|---|---|---|
| Broader | cut of beef | cut of meat from beef cattle |
| Meaning | A main course served on a plate. | |
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| Broader | entree, main course | The principal dish of a meal |
| Spanish | fuente, plato | |
| Catalan | plata, plàtera, plat | |
| Meaning | Any flat platelike body ... / body structure or part. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | comb | ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore |
| frill | (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs | |
| lamina | A thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral) | |
| operculum | A hard flap serving as a cover for (a) the gill slits in fishes or (b) the opening of the shell in certain gastropods when the body is retracted | |
| Broader | structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure | A particular complex anatomical part of a living thing |
| Meaning | The positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube. | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of | tube, vacuum tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic tube, electron tube, thermionic valve | electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope |
| Broader | anode | A positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device |
| Spanish | ánodo | |
| Meaning | A flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | photographic plate | |
| Narrower | quarter plate | A photographic plate measuring 3.25 inches by 4.25 inches |
| Broader | sheet, flat solid | A flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width |
| Spanish | plato fotográfico | |
| Meaning | structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage. | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of | structure, construction | A thing constructed |
| Narrower | wall plate | plate (a timber along the top of a wall) to support the ends of joists, etc., and distribute the load |
| Broader | structural member | support that is a constituent part of any structure or building |
| Meaning | A shallow receptacle for collection in church. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | collection plate | |
| Broader | receptacle | A container that is used to put or keep things in |
| Spanish | platillo | |
| Catalan | platet, plat | |
| Meaning | A metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners). | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | scale, shell | |
| Narrower | armor plate, armour plate, armor plating, plate armor, plate armour | specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire |
| horseshoe, shoe | U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof | |
| shell plating | The plates covering the frame of a steel ship and corresponding to the planking of a wooden ship | |
| Broader | shield | A protective covering or structure |
| Meaning | A dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | denture, dental plate | |
| Narrower | bridge, bridgework | A denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth |
| false teeth | A removable denture | |
| partial denture | A denture replacing one or more teeth in a dental arch | |
| Broader | dental appliance | A device to repair teeth or replace missing teeth |
| Spanish | dentadura, dentadura postiza, placa dental, placa | |
| Catalan | dentadura, dentadura postissa, placa dental | |
| Meaning | coat with a layer of metal. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "plate spoons with silver" | |
| Narrower | chrome, chromium-plate | plate with chromium |
| electroplate | coat with metal by electrolysis | |
| goldplate, gold-plate, gold plate | plate with gold | |
| nickel | plate with nickel | |
| silver | coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam | |
| silverplate, silver-plate | plate with silver | |
| tin | Prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface | |
| tin | plate with tin | |
| Broader | coat, surface | Put a coat on |
| Spanish | chapar | |
| Catalan | plat, xapar | |
| Nouns | plate | a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic |
| plater | a skilled worker who coats / coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold) | |
| plating | the application of a thin coat of metal / metal (as by electrolysis) | |
| plating | a thin coating / coating of metal deposited on a surface | |
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