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noun

Plating 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.

A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.

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

verb

Plate v. t. (past & past part. plated; pres. part. plating)

To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.

To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense. "Thus plated in habiliments of war."

To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.

To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae.

To calender; as, to plate paper.

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Etymology of 'Plating'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Plating" Quotes from Famous Books

... the room to which he had been directed; in fact, he knew it of old. And there were the two new Beeston Humbers; but their lustrous plating and immaculate enamel did not shame his own old disreputable roadster, for the missing machine certainly was not there. Langholm was turning away when the glazed gun-rack caught his eye. Yes, this was the ...

— The Shadow of the Rope • E. W. Hornung

... to the service to be required. He did not soon forget the scene that followed. The great pavilion was lit by a score of resinous flambeaux. The red light shook over the green and purple hangings, the silver plating of the tent-poles. At one end rose the golden throne of the king; before it in a semicircle the stools of a dozen or more princes and commanders. In the centre stood Mardonius questioning a coarse-featured, ill-favoured fellow, ...

— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis

... superior white metal, was held more firmly, and expectations were entertained that it would become available for plating. The stock, however, was small. The silver operation was carried on concurrent with a supply of bullion to Russia for a loan, a demand for silver in Austria, and for shipment to India, and it did really produce an effect on the silver market, which many mistook for the influence of Californian ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne

... meeting, the Kearsarge had lain at anchor close under the critical eye of Captain Semmes. He had on that occasion seen that his enemy was not artificially defended. He believes now that the reports of her plating and armour were so much harbour-gossip, of which during his ...

— The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter • Raphael Semmes

... made on the practising ground at Gavres, near Lorient, to test the penetration of projectiles on every sort of substance—wood, coal, gutta-percha, iron plates, and finally on iron plates superimposed one on the other—in other words armour-plating. It was ten years before the armour plating was actually brought into use, so great was the delay caused by ...

— Memoirs • Prince De Joinville

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