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Home Plate

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Noun

1. home, home base, home plate, plate

(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score

Example Sentences:
'he ruled that the runner failed to touch home'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Home Plate

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noun
baseball
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 the way from third base to score a run
. Also called: plate, home, home base

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Home Plate

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Baseball
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
see also base1 (sense 9)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Home Plate

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n.
Baseball
A base, usually consisting of a hard rubber slab, at one of the corners of a diamond at which a batter stands when hitting and which a base runner must finally touch in order to score.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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