Scrabble & Words with friends points
- plate is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 7
- plate is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 7
- plate is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 9
Definition of plate
- (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score (noun)
Synonyms
- home
- home base
- home plate
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) (noun)
Synonyms
- scale
- shell
- a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded (noun)
Synonyms
- photographic plate
- a shallow receptacle for collection in church (noun)
Synonyms
- collection plate
- the quantity contained in a plate (noun)
Synonyms
- plateful
- a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth (noun)
Synonyms
- dental plate
- denture
- a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly (noun)
Synonyms
- crustal plate
- a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper) (noun)
- a main course served on a plate (noun)
Examples
- a vegetable plate
- the blue plate special
- any flat platelike body structure or part (noun)
- a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic (noun)
- coat with a layer of metal (verb)
Examples
- plate spoons with silver
- dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten (noun)
- structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage (noun)
- the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube (noun)
- the thin under portion of the forequarter (noun)
See definition of plate in Merriam Webster