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home plate vs bag

bag vs home plate

home plate and bag both are nouns.

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

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
home plate Yes No No No
bag Yes No Yes No
As nouns, bag is a hypernym of home plate; that is, bag is a word with a broader meaning than home plate:
  • 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
  • bag: a place that the runner must touch before scoring
Other hypernyms of home plate include base.
home plate (noun) bag (noun)
(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score an activity that you like or at which you are superior
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)
home plate (verb) bag (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 home plate and bag

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