home plate

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [hohm pleyt]
- /hoʊm pleɪt/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [hohm pleyt]
- /hoʊm pleɪt/

Definitions of home plate words

noun home plate the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond. 1
noun home plate baseball: batter's station 1
uncountable noun home plate In baseball, home plate is the piece of rubber or other material that the batter stands beside. It is the last of the four bases that a runner must touch in order to score a run. 0
noun home plate a flat often five-sided piece of hard rubber or other material that serves to define the area over which the pitcher must throw the ball for a strike and that a base runner must safely reach on his way from third base to score a run 0
noun home plate the base that the batter stands beside and over which the pitcher must throw the ball for a strike: it is the last base that a base runner must reach safely to score a run 0

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Origin of home plate

First appearance:

before 1870

One of the 26% newest English words

An Americanism dating back to 1870-75

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Parts of speech for Home plate

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home plate popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 37% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data about 58% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

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Synonyms for home plate

noun home plate

dish — Slang. to gossip about: They talked all night, dishing their former friends.
home — Lord, Douglas-Home.
platter — a large, shallow dish, usually elliptical in shape, for holding and serving food, especially meat or fish.
home base — Baseball. home plate.

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