home plate
20
3.6
- noun
- /hoʊm pleɪt/
- Jargon
:
plato
- He slid into home plate just before the tag to score the winning run.
- home plate umpire
- travel to home plate
- away from home plate
Yeah, but he touched home plate and said that's how you do it, son.
- Yeah, but he touched home plate and said that's how you do it, son.
- And where you have a home plate official who has microphones in his or headphones in his ears and the ball comes by and they call ball a strike.
- So my friend and I went to Central Park and we went behind home plate, this huge baseball fan, and we buried it behind the first field in Central Park.
Examples
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Kellenburger, the home-plate umpire, pumped his fist and roared, "You're out!" in a decisive, no-nonsense tone.
Fiction book (2002) -
And it's going to be close, and he is out at home plate.
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The boy is at home plate with a bat in his hand and a determined look in his eye.
Academic text (2009) -
Yeah, but he touched home plate and said that's how you do it, son.
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Your player rounds the bases, touches home plate, and your team scores a run.
Blog text (14) -
The catcher met me halfway between home plate and the pitcher's mound.
Fiction book (2000) -
The runner forgot to touch home plate and was called out by the umpire.
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During the game, the player crossed home plate after hitting a home run.
Synonyms
186
5.0
The base a runner must touch to score a run
127
7.0
A flat base where the batter stands and runners touch to score
1
3.0
A flat rubber square that the batter stands beside and runners touch to score
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun 'home plate' is directly derivable from 'home' (the home base/location) + 'plate' (a flat slab), describing the slab that marks home base in baseball. This is a straightforward noun–noun compound following common compositional patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reasonably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Home plate comes from baseball: home is the place you return to, and plate is a flat slab the player who hits the ball stands over. That's why touching home plate means 'to score a run'.