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home plate
 

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Noun home plate has 1 sense
  1. 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"
    --1 is a kind of base, bag

Definitions from the Web

Home Plate

Noun

  1. The base in baseball where the batter stands and which they must touch to score a point.
  2. A flat rubber slab positioned at the outer edge of the home plate, representing the strike zone.
  3. A metaphorical reference to one's residence or place of belonging.

Examples:

  1. The pitcher threw a fastball right over the home plate for a strike.
  2. The umpire called a ball as the pitch just missed the corner of the home plate.
  3. After a long day at work, I'm happy to finally reach home plate and relax in my own bed.

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