Plating Synonyms & Definitions

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• PlatingDefinition & Meaning in English

  1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plate
  2. (n.) A coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel) plates.
  3. (n.) A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
  4. (n.) The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition.

• PlatDefinition & Meaning in English

  1. (n.) Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.
  2. (adv.) Plainly; flatly; downright.
  3. (n.) The flat or broad side of a sword.
  4. (v. t.) To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
  5. (v. t.) To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.
  6. (n.) Plain; flat; level.
  7. (adv.) Flatly; smoothly; evenly.
  8. (n.) A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground.
  9. (n.) A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart.

• PlateDefinition & Meaning in English

  1. (n.) Loosely, a sporting contest for a prize; specif., in horse racing, a race for a prize, the contestants not making a stake.
  2. (n.) A very light steel racing horsehoe.
  3. (n.) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewed together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
  4. (n.) One of the thin parts of the bricket of an animal.
  5. (n.) A small five-sided area (enveloping a diamond-shaped area one foot square) beside which the batter stands and which must be touched by some part of a player on completing a run; -- called also home base, or home plate.
  6. (n.) The fine nap (as of beaver, hares wool, musquash, nutria, or English black wool) on a hat the body of which is of an inferior substance.
  7. (n.) A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.
  8. (v. t.) To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.
  9. (n.) A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publishers plates.
  10. (n.) Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.
  11. (v. t.) To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.
  12. (n.) That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc.
  13. (n.) A piece of money, usually silver money.
  14. (n.) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
  15. (n.) A prize giving to the winner in a contest.
  16. (v. t.) To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.
  17. (n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters.
  18. (n.) A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.
  19. (n.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.
  20. (n.) A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate.
  21. (n.) Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.
  22. (n.) Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold.
  23. (v. t.) To calender; as, to plate paper.
  24. (v. t.) To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae.

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