Read the dictionary definition of plate. All definitions for this word.
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
1. 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)
5. a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
6. a shallow receptacle for collection in church
7. structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
8. a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
9. a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
10. the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
11. any flat platelike body structure or part
12. a main course served on a plate
1. a vegetable plate
2. the blue plate special
13. the thin under portion of the forequarter
14. a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
15. the quantity contained in a plate
16. coat with a layer of metal
1. plate spoons with silver
