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- English Word Platel Definition A small dish.
- English Word Platen Definition The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
- English Word Platen Definition Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression.
- English Word Platen Definition 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.
- English Word Plater Definition One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater.
- English Word Plater Definition A machine for calendering paper.
- English Word Plateresque Definition Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.
- English Word Platetrope Definition One of a pair of a paired organs.
- English Word Platform Definition A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively.
- English Word Platform Definition A place laid out after a model.
- English Word Platform Definition 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.
- English Word Platform Definition 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.
- English Word Platform Definition A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop.
- English Word Platform Definition To place on a platform.
- English Word Platform Definition To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
- English Word Plathelminth Definition One of the Platyelminthes.
- English Word Plathelminthes Definition Same as Platyelminthes.
- English Word Platin Definition See Platen.
- English Word Platina Definition Platinum.
- English Word Plating Definition of Plate
- English Word Plating Definition 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.
- English Word Plating Definition A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
- English Word Plating Definition A coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel) plates.
- English Word Platinic Definition 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).
- English Word Platinichloric Definition 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.
- English Word Platiniferous Definition Yielding platinum; as, platiniferous sand.
- English Word Platiniridium Definition A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.
- English Word Platinize Definition To cover or combine with platinum.
- English Word Platinized Definition of Platinize
- English Word Platinizing Definition of Platinize