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n. A thin layer of metal, such as gold or silver, deposited on or applied to a surface.

n. A coating of metal sheets or plates.

v. Present participle of plate.

n. An act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet.

n. A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.

n. A coating or defensive armour of metal plates.

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.

n. A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.

n. A coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel) plates.

n. The art or operation of covering articles with a thin coating or film of metal, especially of overlaying articles made of the baser metals with a thin coating of gold, silver, or nickel.

n. A thin coating of one metal laid upon another.

n. In bacterial., the pouring of liquefied gelatin or agar-agar containing a mixed culture of bacteria upon a glass plate or into a Petri dish, where the medium hardens and thus permits the isolation of specific organisms. Also plating-out.

n. In iron ship-building, the plates, collectively, arranged in strakes covering any part: as, side-plating, the plates forming the outer skin of the vessel above the turn of the bilge; bottom-plating, the plates forming the outer bottom of a vessel below the turn of the bilge; deck-plating, the covering of the deck-beams, etc.

n. the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis)

n. a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface

"Gold plating is widely used in many quality pieces."

coating    application    covering   

thimble-plating    plating-behind-armor    outside plating   

plate   

abating    annotating    awaiting    baiting    berating    crating    creating    dating    debating    deflating   

sheathe    þber    dentin    planking    steel-and-concrete    pellicle    coating    repulsor    bezel    carapace