• the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home Plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws; "a catcher needs a lot of protective equipment"; "he plays behind the Plate"
• a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
• (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"
• dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
• a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
• a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
• a shallow receptacle for collection in church
• structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
• a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
• a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
• the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
• any flat Platelike body structure or part
• a main course served on a Plate; "a vegetable Plate"; "the blue Plate special"
• the thin under portion of the forequarter
• a rigid layer of the Earth''s crust that is believed to drift slowly
• the quantity contained in a Plate
• coat with a layer of metal; "Plate spoons with silver"

'Plate' in other languages