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- n (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- n a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
- n a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
- n dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
- n the quantity contained in a plate
- n a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
- n the thin under portion of the forequarter
- n a main course served on a plate
a vegetable plate
the blue plate special - n any flat platelike body structure or part
- n the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
- n a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
- n structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
- n a shallow receptacle for collection in church
- n a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- n a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
- v coat with a layer of metal
plate spoons with silver
- Last week tin plate production boomed up to 100% of capacityhighest level in its 40 years of history.
- Americans trash an estimated trillion disposable plates and utensils every year; a single-use plate's useful life averages only about five minutes.
- According to Power Plate's manufacturers, if you stand on the machine's vibrating plates for 10 minutes a day three times a week, you will lose weight, increase bone density and .