home plate

English

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.

   Synonym: home base

   Coordinate terms: first base, second base, third base

Descendants

• → Japanese: ホームベース (hōmu bēsu)
• → Korean: 홈 베이스 (hom beiseu)

Translations

pentagonal rubber object

• Bulgarian: хоум база f (houm baza)
• Catalan: base de meta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 本壘 / 本垒 (zh) (běnlěi)

• Czech: domácí meta f
• Dutch: thuishonk (nl)
• Esperanto: hejmplato
• Estonian: kodumärk
• Finnish: kotipesä (fi), lautanen (fi)
• French: marbre (fr) m
• Italian: casa base f
• Japanese: 本塁 (ja) (honrui), ホームベース (ja) (hōmu bēsu)
• Korean: 본루(本壘) (bollu), 홈 베이스 (hom beiseu)
• Māori: pūrei kāinga
• Russian: дома́шняя ба́за f (domášnjaja báza)
• Spanish: home (es) m (N Mexico)