The noun plate has 15 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (7) plate -- (a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic)
2. (6) home plate, home base, home, plate -- ((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")
3. (3) plate -- (a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper))
4. (3) plate -- (dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten)
5. (1) plate, plateful -- (the quantity contained in a plate)
6. plate, crustal plate -- (a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly)
7. plate -- (the thin under portion of the forequarter)
8. plate -- (a main course served on a plate; "a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special")
9. plate -- (any flat platelike body structure or part)
10. plate -- (the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube)
11. plate, photographic plate -- (a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded)
12. plate -- (structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage)
13. plate, collection plate -- (a shallow receptacle for collection in church)
14. plate, scale, shell -- (a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners))
15. denture, dental plate, plate -- (a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth)
Overview of verb plate
The verb plate has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. plate -- (coat with a layer of metal; "plate spoons with silver")