Definitions for plated

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plated plat·ed

Spelling: [pley-tid]

IPA: /ˈpleɪ tɪd/

Plated is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 143 anagrams from letters in plated (adelpt).

Definitions for plated

noun

1. a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
2. the contents of such a dish; plateful.
3. an entire course of a meal served on such a dish:
4. the food and service for one person, as at a banquet, fund-raising dinner, or the like:
5. household dishes, utensils, etc., of metal plated with gold or silver.
6. household dishes, utensils, etc., made of gold or silver.
7. Also called collection plate. a dish, as of metal or wood, used for collecting offerings, as in a church.
8. a thin, flat sheet or piece of metal or other material, especially of uniform thickness.
9. metal in such sheets.
10. a flat, polished piece of metal on which something may be or is engraved.
11. license plate.
12. a flat or curved sheet of metal, plastic, glass, or similar hard material, on which a picture or text has been engraved, etched, molded, photographically developed, or drawn, that is inked, as in a press, for printing impressions on other surfaces.
13. a printed impression from such a piece or from some similar piece, as a woodcut.
14. a full-page illustration in a book, especially an insert on paper different from the text pages.
15. a piece of armor made from a thin, flat piece or several such pieces of tough material, especially wrought iron or steel.
16. armor composed of thin, flat pieces; plate armor.
17. Dentistry. the part of a denture that conforms to the mouth and contains the teeth. the entire denture.
18. Baseball. the plate, home plate. rubber1 (def 14).
19. plate glass.
20. Photography. a sheet of glass, metal, etc., coated with a sensitized emulsion, used for taking a photograph.
21. Anatomy, Zoology. a platelike part, structure, or organ.
22. a thin piece or cut of beef from the lower end of the ribs.
23. Geology. crustal plate.
24. Electronics. one of the interior elements of a vacuum tube, toward which electrons are attracted by virtue of its positive charge; anode. Abbreviation: P.
25. Carpentry. any of various horizontal timbers or boards laid flat across the heads of studding, upon floors, etc., to support joists, rafters, or studs at or near their ends.
26. a gold or silver cup or the like awarded as the prize in a horse race or some other contest.
27. a horse race or some other contest for such a prize.
28. Heraldry. a rounded argent.

Idioms

1. have on one's plate, Informal. to have as an immediate task, obligation, or prospect:

adjective

1. coated with a thin film of gold, silver, etc., as for ornamental purposes.
2. covered or overlaid with metal plates for protection.
3. (of a knitted fabric) made of two yarns, as wool on the face and cotton on the back.

verb (used with object)

1. to coat (metal) with a thin film of gold, silver, nickel, etc., by mechanical or chemical means.
2. to cover or overlay with metal plates for protection.
3. Metalworking. to forge (a bloom or the like) into a broad piece. to hammer (cutlery) gently to produce an even surface.
4. Printing. to make a stereotype or electrotype plate from (type).
5. Papermaking. to give a high gloss to (paper), as on supercalendered paper.

Origin of plated

First recorded in 1475-85; plate¹ + -ed³

Examples for plated

All the fittings, inside and out, were either machine-turned or plated.

It is "plated" if it is made of some cheaper metal and covered with silver.

There was an empty, haunting self-portrait by the Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic, her mouth ringed with plated gold.

These books were many of them plated with gold and silver and curiously embossed.

Some vessels were plated only about the centre, so as to protect the boiler and engines.

I led him down to the court, where I'd laid out the plated tinware to dry.

Your feeble spear ever pierce that slimy paunch or plated back?

So he must have known you had plated ones and needed solid ones.

The look of his plated desserts, with their free-flowing natural look and feel, just breeds creativity.

Some of our neighbors saw what we had plated, and wanted me to do some plating for them.