Definitions for plating
plating
plat·ing
Spelling: [pley-ting]
IPA: /ˈpleɪ tɪŋ/
Plating is a 7 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 202 anagrams from letters in plating (agilnpt).
Definitions for plating
noun
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a thin coating of gold, silver, etc.
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an external layer of metal plates.
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the act of a person or thing that plates.
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a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
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the contents of such a dish; plateful.
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an entire course of a meal served on such a dish:
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the food and service for one person, as at a banquet, fund-raising dinner, or the like:
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household dishes, utensils, etc., of metal plated with gold or silver.
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household dishes, utensils, etc., made of gold or silver.
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Also called collection plate. a dish, as of metal or wood, used for collecting offerings, as in a church.
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a thin, flat sheet or piece of metal or other material, especially of uniform thickness.
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metal in such sheets.
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a flat, polished piece of metal on which something may be or is engraved.
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license plate.
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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.
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a printed impression from such a piece or from some similar piece, as a woodcut.
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a full-page illustration in a book, especially an insert on paper different from the text pages.
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a piece of armor made from a thin, flat piece or several such pieces of tough material, especially wrought iron or steel.
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armor composed of thin, flat pieces; plate armor.
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Dentistry.
the part of a denture that conforms to the mouth and contains the teeth.
the entire denture.
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Baseball.
the plate, home plate.
rubber1 (def 14).
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plate glass.
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Photography. a sheet of glass, metal, etc., coated with a sensitized emulsion, used for taking a photograph.
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Anatomy, Zoology. a platelike part, structure, or organ.
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a thin piece or cut of beef from the lower end of the ribs.
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Geology. crustal plate.
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Electronics. one of the interior elements of a vacuum tube, toward which electrons are attracted by virtue of its positive charge; anode. Abbreviation: P.
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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.
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a gold or silver cup or the like awarded as the prize in a horse race or some other contest.
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a horse race or some other contest for such a prize.
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Heraldry. a rounded argent.
Idioms
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have on one's plate, Informal. to have as an immediate task, obligation, or prospect:
verb (used with object)
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to coat (metal) with a thin film of gold, silver, nickel, etc., by mechanical or chemical means.
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to cover or overlay with metal plates for protection.
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Metalworking.
to forge (a bloom or the like) into a broad piece.
to hammer (cutlery) gently to produce an even surface.
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Printing. to make a stereotype or electrotype plate from (type).
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Papermaking. to give a high gloss to (paper), as on supercalendered paper.
Origin of plating
First recorded in 1535-45; plate1 + -ing1
Examples for plating
Tin in solution is largely used in electro-metallurgy for plating.
It will be highly useful in plating chemists' crucibles and so on.
The attempt was made to remove her plating, but it was not possible to do so soon enough.
It is used in the manufacture of small coins and for plating iron and steel.
Some of our neighbors saw what we had plated, and wanted me to do some plating for them.
We haven't an ounce of copper left—we're down to the plating in spots.
There were patches of plating, and there were naked, twisted girders.
The circuit is completed by turning a switch and the plating begins.
plating is done by girls, 5000 being a day's work for an experienced hand.
And the helmet hard, all haughty with gold, shall part from its plating.