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(noun) dental plate, denture
a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
(noun) home, 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
a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
(noun) collection plate
a shallow receptacle for collection in church
(noun) photographic plate
a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
(noun) crustal plate
a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
(noun) plateful
the quantity contained in a plate