home
- noun
- /hoʊm/
- US
- One year, I hit the home run that won the big game.
- home plate
- a home run
- hit a home run
Well, I think I think of like the Superman Crest or a home plate.
- Well, I think I think of like the Superman Crest or a home plate.
- And then he'd run back to the shallow end to his mom and cling to his mom and like, and mom was home base, right?
Examples
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I went from first to home on a bunt single.
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Home plate!
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I picked myself up, and as I walked toward home plate, I looked at Bill in the other dugout.
Fiction book (2000) -
Many stadiums now feature rotating advertising signs along the sidelines or behind home plate, which change after each batter.
Academic text (1998) -
The batter stood ready to hit the ball while keeping his eye on home plate.
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The runner slid safely into home to score the winning run for his team.
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During the game, the coach reminded the players that they must touch home before scoring.
Synonyms
One of the four stations a runner must touch to score
A flat base where the batter stands and runners touch to score
A flat rubber base with five sides that a batter stands over and runners touch to score
A flat rubber square that the batter stands beside and runners touch to score
Idioms
- Informal
Leave a game or group angrily because you did not get your way
- Informal
To leave a group or activity because you do not get your way
- Informal
To eat so much at someone's home that they have almost no food left
- Offensive
Looking awake but not paying attention or thinking clearly
Compounds
A place where older people live and receive help with daily tasks and medical care
A place where people prepare a dead body for burial or cremation and say goodbye
- Texting
The main page of a website that appears when you open the site or your browser
- Jargon
A flat rubber base with five sides that a batter stands over and runners touch to score
- Specialized
Care and help with medical and personal needs in a person's home for elderly or disabled people
- Offensive
A person who has a romantic relationship with someone married or in a relationship, causing it to end
- US
A set of speakers and a big screen at home for watching movies like in a cinema
- Specialized
A loan that uses the value of your house to get money for big expenses
- Literature
A senior government minister who leads the Home Office and handles security, law and immigration
- UK
A UK government department that handles immigration, security and police matters
- Formal
The right of a city or county to run its own local matters without central government control
- Formal
An official order telling people to remain at home to slow the spread of a disease
A school subject about running a home, like cooking, sewing, and managing money
A place where a person, group, or animal feels most comfortable, often a team's regular field
A place where young people who have broken the law stay temporarily under court supervision
- Specialized
A regional bank that lends short-term money to local savings banks to support home loans
- Archaic
A hospital for people who cannot look after themselves because of mental illness
A US company backed by the government that buys home loans to help banks lend more
- Archaic
A festival at the end of the farming year when people gather to celebrate crops
Surface Forms
Etymology
Home In baseball, 'home' is the base you must return to, just like the old heim 'house' you come back to, so 'home' plate is the place a player returns to in order to score. That is why 'home' is the final goal on the field.