home plate

  • 11home plate — {n.} The base in baseball where the batter stands and that a runner must touch to score. * /The runner slid across home plate ahead of the tag to score a run./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 12home plate — {n.} The base in baseball where the batter stands and that a runner must touch to score. * /The runner slid across home plate ahead of the tag to score a run./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 13home\ plate — noun the base in baseball where the batter stands and that a runner must touch to score. The runner slid across home plate ahead of the tag to score a run …

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  • 14Home plate (disambiguation) — Home plate is a baseball term denoting a base on the baseball field. It may also refer to:*Home Plate (Mars), a geologic feature on Mars observed by the Spirit rover * Home Plate , an album by Bonnie Raitt *Home Plate Farm, a historic building in …

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  • 15Home Plate Farm — is located on 558 Dutton Road in Sudbury, Massachusetts. It was the home of baseball legend Babe Ruth from 1922 to 1926. Ruth sold it to Herb Atkinson who established Sudbury Laboratories on the site. It was in this neighborhood that the… …

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  • 16Home Plate (Mars) — MarsGeo name=Home Plate caption=HiRISE image of Home Plate. type=Rock outcrop latitude=14.6 N or S=S longitude=175.5 E or W=E Home Plate is an informal nickname used by NASA scientists to refer to a geological feature on Mars currently under… …

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  • 17home plate — Baseball. 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. Also called home, the plate,… …

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  • 18home plate — /ˈhoʊm pleɪt/ (say hohm playt) noun → home (def. 10) …

  • 19home plate — noun Date: 1875 a 5 sided rubber slab at one corner of a baseball diamond at which a batter stands when batting and which must be touched by a base runner in order to score …

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  • 20home plate — noun A flat, pentagonal, rubber object placed at the center of the batters box, which is used as a basis for judging pitched strikes and balls, and the touching of which by a runner advancing from or past third base scores a run …

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