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bag vs home plate

home plate vs bag

bag and home plate both are nouns.

bag is a verb but home plate is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
bag Yes No Yes No
home plate Yes No No No
As nouns, home plate is a hyponym of bag; that is, home plate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bag:
  • bag: a place that the runner must touch before scoring
  • home plate: (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
Other hyponyms of bag include first base, home, home base, plate, second base, third, third base.
bag (noun) home plate (noun)
an activity that you like or at which you are superior (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
a flexible container with a single opening
a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
a place that the runner must touch before scoring
an ugly or ill-tempered woman
the quantity that a bag will hold
the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)
bag (verb) home plate (verb)
put into a bag
capture or kill, as in hunting
take unlawfully
bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
hang loosely, like an empty bag
Difference between bag and home plate

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