| a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
Synonyms: denture, dental plate,
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| (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"
Synonyms: home plate, home base, home,
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| dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
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| a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
Synonyms: scale, shell,
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| a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
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| a shallow receptacle for collection in church
Synonyms: collection plate,
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| structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
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| a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
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| a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
Synonyms: photographic plate,
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| the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
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| any flat platelike body structure or part
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| a main course served on a plate; "a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special"
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| the thin under portion of the forequarter
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| a rigid layer of the Earth''s crust that is believed to drift slowly
Synonyms: crustal plate,
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| the quantity contained in a plate
Synonyms: plateful,
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