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Tectonic Drifters

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noun

• (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score

• a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic

• a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)

• dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten

• the quantity contained in a plate

• a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly

• the thin under portion of the forequarter

• a main course served on a plate

• any flat platelike body structure or part

• the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube

• a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded

• structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage

• a shallow receptacle for collection in church

• a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

• a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth

verb

• coat with a layer of metal

37%10Tectonic
adjective

• relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure

• relating to or having or characterized by structure

• pertaining to geological structure

• relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals

adjective satellite

• affecting or involved in structure or construction

• concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study

27%6 Documented the lives of drifters and outcasts
noun

• United States writer (1909-1981)

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