Plat (v. t.) To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.
Plat (n.) Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.
Plat (n.) A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground.
Plat (v. t.) To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
Plat (n.) Plain; flat; level.
Plat (adv.) Plainly; flatly; downright.
Plat (adv.) Flatly; smoothly; evenly.
Plat (n.) The flat or broad side of a sword.
Plat (n.) A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart.
Platan (n.) The plane tree.
Platanist (n.) The soosoo.
Platanus (n.) A genus of trees; the plane tree.
Platband (n.) A border of flowers in a garden, along a wall or a parterre; hence, a border.
Platband (n.) A flat molding, or group of moldings, the width of which much exceeds its projection, as the face of an architrave.
Platband (n.) A list or fillet between the flutings of a column.
Plate (n.) A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.
Plate (n.) Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.
Plate (n.) Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.
Plate (n.) Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold.
Plate (n.) A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.
Plate (n.) A piece of money, usually silver money.
Plate (n.) A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate.
Plate (n.) A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.
Plate (n.) That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc.
Plate (n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters.
Plate (n.) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
Plate (n.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.
Plate (n.) A prize giving to the winner in a contest.
Plated (imp. & p. p.) of Plate
Plating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plate
Plate (v. t.) To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.
Plate (v. t.) To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.
Plate (v. t.) To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.
Plate (v. t.) To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae.
Plate (v. t.) To calender; as, to plate paper.
Plateaux (pl. ) of Plateau
Plateaus (pl. ) of Plateau
Plateau (n.) A flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevated area of land; a table-land.
Plateau (n.) An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.
Platefuls (pl. ) of Plateful
Plateful (n.) Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
Plate-gilled (a.) Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.
Platel (n.) A small dish.
Platen (n.) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
Platen (n.) Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression.
Platen (n.) The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called table.
Plater (n.) One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater.
Plater (n.) A machine for calendering paper.
Plateresque (a.) Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.
Platetrope (n.) One of a pair of a paired organs.
Platform (n.) A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively.
Platform (n.) A place laid out after a model.
Platform (n.) Any flat or horizontal surface; especially, one that is raised above some particular level, as a framework of timber or boards horizontally joined so as to form a roof, or a raised floor, or portion of a floor; a landing; a dais; a stage, for speakers, performers, or workmen; a standing place.
Platform (n.) A declaration of the principles upon which a person, a sect, or a party proposes to stand; a declared policy or system; as, the Saybrook platform; a political platform.
Platform (n.) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop.
Platform (v. t.) To place on a platform.
Platform (v. t.) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
Plathelminth (n.) One of the Platyelminthes.
Plathelminthes (n. pl.) Same as Platyelminthes.
Platin (n.) See Platen.
Platina (n.) Platinum.
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.
Plating (n.) A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
Plating (n.) A coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel) plates.
Platinic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, platinum; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted with the platinous compounds; as, platinic chloride (PtCl4).
Platinichloric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid consisting of platinic chloride and hydrochloric acid, and obtained as a brownish red crystalline substance, called platinichloric, or chloroplatinic, acid.
Platiniferous (a.) Yielding platinum; as, platiniferous sand.
Platiniridium (n.) A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.
Platinized (imp. & p. p.) of Platinize
Platinizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Platinize
Platinize (v. t.) To cover or combine with platinum.
Platinochloric (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid consisting of platinous chloride and hydrochloric acid, called platinochloric, / chloroplatinous, acid.
Platinochloride (n.) A double chloride of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinochloric acid.
Platinocyanic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid compound of platinous cyanide and hydrocyanic acid. It is obtained as a cinnaber-red crystalline substance.
Platinocyanide (n.) A double cyanide of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid.
Platinode (n.) A cathode.
Platinoid (a.) Resembling platinum.
Platinoid (n.) An alloy of German silver containing tungsten; -- used for forming electrical resistance coils and standards.
Platinotype (n.) A permanent photographic picture or print in platinum black.
Platinotype (n.) The process by which such pictures are produced.
Platinous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, platinum; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a lower valence, as contrasted with the platinic compounds; as, platinous chloride (PtCl2).
Platinum (n.) A metallic element, intermediate in value between silver and gold, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the platinum arsenide (sperrylite). It is heavy tin-white metal which is ductile and malleable, but very infusible, and characterized by its resistance to strong chemical reagents. It is used for crucibles, for stills for sulphuric acid, rarely for coin, and in the form of foil and wire for many purposes. Specific gravity 21.5. Atomic weight 194.3. Symbol Pt. Formerly called platina.
Platitude (n.) The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.
Platitude (n.) A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace.
Platitudinarian (n.) One addicted to uttering platitudes, or stale and insipid truisms.
Platitudinize (v. i.) To utter platitudes or truisms.
Platitudinous (a.) Abounding in platitudes; of the nature of platitudes; uttering platitudes.
Platly (a.) Flatly. See Plat, a.
Platness (n.) Flatness.
Platometer (n.) See Planimeter.
Platonic (a.) Alt. of Platonical
Platonical (a.) Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions.
Platonical (a.) Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical.
Platonic (n.) A follower of Plato; a Platonist.
Platonically (adv.) In a Platonic manner.
Platonism (n.) The doctrines or philosophy by Plato or of his followers.
Platonism (n.) An elevated rational and ethical conception of the laws and forces of the universe; sometimes, imaginative or fantastic philosophical notions.
Platonist (n.) One who adheres to the philosophy of Plato; a follower of Plato.
Platonized (imp. & p. p.) of Platonize
Platonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Platonize