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Plating

//ˈpleɪtɪŋ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    An act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet.
  2. 2
    the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis) wordnet
  3. 3
    A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
  4. 4
    a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface wordnet
  5. 5
    A coating or defensive armour of metal plates.

    "Her fragility and vulnerability lie in the fact that her framework is overlaid with a relatively thin skin of plating, an inch or so in thickness, which, while amply strong to resist the inward pressure of the water, the impact of the seas, and the tensile and compressive stresses due to the motion of the ship in a seaway, etc., is readily fractured by the blow of a collision."

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  1. 6
    The presentation of food that is ready to be served.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of plate form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From plate + -ing.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *platynge, from Old English platung (“plate, thin piece of metal”), equivalent to plate + -ing.

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