Synonyms for plate
pleɪtplate

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1. home plate, home base, home, platenoun

   (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:
   dental plate, domicile, rest home, home office, central office, dwelling, home base, place, plateful, menage, dwelling house, base, scale, home, main office, crustal plate, home plate, family, nursing home, house, habitation, headquarters, photographic plate, denture, household, shell, abode, collection plate

2. platenoun

   a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic

   Synonyms:
   scale, plateful, collection plate, photographic plate, home, dental plate, home plate, denture, shell, crustal plate, home base

3. platenoun

   a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)

   Synonyms:
   scale, plateful, collection plate, photographic plate, home, dental plate, home plate, denture, shell, crustal plate, home base

4. platenoun

   dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten

   Synonyms:
   scale, plateful, collection plate, photographic plate, home, dental plate, home plate, denture, shell, crustal plate, home base

5. plate, platefulnoun

   the quantity contained in a plate

   Synonyms:
   scale, plateful, collection plate, photographic plate, home, dental plate, home plate, denture, shell, crustal plate, home base

6. plate, crustal platenoun

   a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly

   Synonyms:
   scale, plateful, collection plate, photographic plate, home, dental plate, home plate, denture, shell, crustal plate, home base

7. platenoun

   the thin under portion of the forequarter

   Synonyms:
   scale, plateful, collection plate, photographic plate, home, dental plate, home plate, denture, shell, crustal plate, home base

8. platenoun

   a main course served on a plate

   "a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special"

   Synonyms:
   scale, plateful, collection plate, photographic plate, home, dental plate, home plate, denture, shell, crustal plate, home base

9. platenoun

   any flat platelike body structure or part

   Synonyms:
   scale, plateful, collection plate, photographic plate, home, dental plate, home plate, denture, shell, crustal plate, home base

10. platenoun

    the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube

    Synonyms:
    scale, plateful, collection plate, photographic plate, home, dental plate, home plate, denture, shell, crustal plate, home base

11. plate, photographic platenoun

    a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded

    Synonyms:
    scale, plateful, collection plate, photographic plate, home, dental plate, home plate, denture, shell, crustal plate, home base

12. platenoun

    structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage

    Synonyms:
    scale, plateful, collection plate, photographic plate, home, dental plate, home plate, denture, shell, crustal plate, home base

13. plate, collection platenoun

    a shallow receptacle for collection in church

    Synonyms:
    scale, plateful, collection plate, photographic plate, home, dental plate, home plate, denture, shell, crustal plate, home base

14. plate, scale, shellnoun

    a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

    Synonyms:
    scale leaf, scurf, cuticle, ordered series, exfoliation, graduated table, weighing machine, home base, case, racing shell, plateful, carapace, scale of measurement, dental plate, home, crustal plate, home plate, shield, musical scale, eggshell, denture, scale, casing, shell, photographic plate, collection plate

15. denture, dental plate, plateverb

    a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth

    Synonyms:
    shell, scale, plateful, collection plate, photographic plate, home, home plate, denture, dental plate, crustal plate, home base

16. plateverb

    coat with a layer of metal

    "plate spoons with silver"

Matched Categories

1. • Anode
   • Base
   • Baseball
   • Coat
   • Containerful
   • Crust
   • Cut Of Beef
   • Entree
   • Flatware
   • Illustration
   • Receptacle
   • Sheet
   • Shield
   • Structural Member
   • Structure

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bowl

   a thing in the earth that holds it up from hurricanes

   Submitted by anonymous on December 7, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. platenoun

   Synonyms:
   lamina, layer

2. platenoun

   Synonyms:
   dish, platter

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "plate":

   plaque, plates, board, plato, sheet, plaques, placard, dish, slab, badge, flat, plett, base, nameplate, agar, turntable, marble, plank, plating, plateau, platter

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1. Patrick Corbin:

   Every time he hits the ball it seems like it’s 110 (mph) off the bat, he’s at his best when he hits it left-center there, stays on the ball and hits it hard. When you can do that and still hit homers the other way, you’re just not as fooled as much at the plate. There’s a reason he’s one of the best hitters in the game.

2. Crudup Jr.:

   I'm not here to play the blame game right now. We've been passing this buck around for years. This thing has been decades in the making, even the last two years, we've been dealing with things over and over again, and so I'm just glad right now that the governor has decided to go ahead and step up to the plate and help us out right now.

3. Al Zarouni:

   I attended the license plate auction only to win number 1. My ambition is always to be number 1.

4. Thornton:

   My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy.

5. Mayor John Cranley:

   As a general matter, a pullover related to a license plate should not, in the normal course of events, lead to lethal force and a death as it has in this case.