"home plate" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: home plates [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} home plate (plural home plates)
  1. (baseball) A flat, pentagonal, rubber object placed at the center of the batter's 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. Categories (topical): Baseball Translations (pentagonal rubber object): base de meta [feminine] (Catalan), domácí meta [feminine] (Czech), thuishonk (Dutch), hejmplato (Esperanto), kodumärk (Estonian), kotipesä (Finnish), lautanen (Finnish), marbre [masculine] (French), casa base [feminine] (Italian), 本塁 (honrui) (Japanese), ホームベース (hōmu bēsu) (Japanese), pūrei kāinga (Maori), дома́шняя ба́за (domášnjaja báza) [feminine] (Russian), home (english: N Mexico) [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "word": "pūrei kāinga"
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