platingn.
/ˈpleɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpleɪdɪŋ/ 1.
a. The process of coating an object with a thin adherent layer of gold, silver, or other metal, spec. by means of electrolysis.gold-, rhodium-plating, etc.: see the first element. See also nickel plating n.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > coating with metal
plating1479
platery1664
metallization1876
metallizing1911
1479–80 in L. Wright Sources London Eng. (1996) 174 To John Reymond for iiij Ores & platyng of the same — v s. ij d.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 260 The quantity of gold and silver annually employed in gilding and plating..is said to amount to more than fifty thousand pounds sterling. View more context for this quotation
1798 Encycl. XV. 37/1 Plating is the art of covering baser metals with a thin plate of silver either for use or for ornament.
1803 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 194 The art of plating and of tinning.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 725 Copper may likewise be plated by heating it, and burnishing leaf-silver upon it; so may iron and brass. This process is called French Plating.
1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour ii. 29 The decorative processes of plating, gilding, and enamelling.
1872 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 25 1134 Plating with aluminium cannot be effected.
1946 Trans. Electrochem. Soc. 89 384 In a recent cost analysis..on the plating of an electric flatiron, it cost $0·46 to apply nickel and chromium.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) IV. 531/1 It is difficult to apply zinc coatings thinner than about 0·002 in. by hot dipping... For many articles, thinner coatings are adequate and are applied by plating.
1991 Metalworking Production Sept. 14/3 Chrome plated steel pins, which are given a minimum of 2mm coating, are lapped after plating.
b. concrete. A thin resistant coating, esp. of gold or silver. Also figurative.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > plated or coated metal > [noun] > plating or coating applied to metal
platc1380
plate1665
plating1788
1788 Times 19 Dec. 1/1 Every attention shall still be paid to the quality and excellence of their [sc. a Sheffield plate company's] goods, particularly to the strength of plating.
1790 W. Nicholson tr. A.-F. de Fourcroy Elements Nat. Hist. & Chem. (new ed.) III. 133 The alcohol is soon volatilized, and leaves on the varnished body a transparent, resinous plating.
1833 T. Hook Snowdon viii, in Love & Pride III. 11 She..dreaded that the appearance might be deceitful—if it were so, the plating was extremely thick.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 998 Were it to remain a very little longer, the silver would become alloyed with the copper, and the plating be thus completely spoiled.
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 61 The plating of Anglicism rubs off.
1931 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 70 188 The enamel platings of the elephantine grinders..may be used as a new method..of estimating the duration of the sub-divisions of the age of man.
1946 Trans. Electrochem. Soc. 89 409 (heading) Plating deposited from nickel-cobalt chloride solution.
1962 Engineering 7 Sept. 321/3 (heading) Mirror surface on copper plating.
1990 Paleobiology 16 441/1 Deeper, bone trabeculae are thinner..and their surface is covered by endosteal lamellar platings.
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1532 in H. M. Paton Accts. Masters of Wks. (1957) I. 90 vi dosane of grete bottis for wal plating and syling.
1535–6 in H. M. Paton Accts. Masters of Wks. (1957) I. 184 vii dosane x treis for lath and wall plating.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1804 The wall-plating and bond to be dovetailed and halved at their angles.
3. The beating of metal into plate or plates.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > making or application of plates
platingc1565
c1565 in R. H. Tawney & E. Power Tudor Econ. Documents (1924) I. 244 The said Christopher shall..erect..mylles In such convenient place as shalbe founde mete for the plating of Iron and stele.
1705 W. Shiers Familiar Disc. conc. Mine-adventure 19 You have Water and Coal plenty, the two great things that are necessary for plating and rolling of Copper and Brass.
1720 T. Williams View Advantages to Company Min. Manufacturers at Neath 10 The plating of Copper for Furnaces, and other Uses, in Mills for that purpose.
1803 Avis's Gaz. (Birmingham) 26 Dec. 2/4 (advt.) A forge and mill..recently used as a plating or skelping forge.
1967 A. K. Osbourne Encycl. Iron & Steel Industr. (ed. 2) 321/2 Plating,..a forging operation so designed that the spread of the metal is in the transverse rather than the longitudinal direction.
1987 Philadelphia Business Jrnl. (Nexis) 13 July ii. 18/2 There is a question of how much of the plant—designed as an integrated operation to do everything from melting and casting to rolling and plating—would remain.
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a. A metal plate; metal plates collectively; an external layer of metal plates. In Old English: spec. a thin sheet of beaten gold, a gold leaf.armour-, steel-plating, etc.: see armour plate n., steel plate n., etc.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > plate
platea1460
plating1599
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > plating
skin1769
skin-plating1863
plating1895
1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. H'oja de Mil'an, white thinne plating, such as they vse to plate cupboords for to keepe meate in.
1791 M. A. Meilan Holy Writ Familiarized 352 A soldier in the king of Syria's army, drew a bow at hazard, as the expression is, and wounded him between the platings of his harness.
1800 T. Haweis Impartial Hist. Church of Christ II. 184 Poor Alexis, Emperor of the East, was compelled by distress to melt down some silver platings of the church doors.
1825 W. Scott Talisman vii, in Tales Crusaders IV. 148 A broad pavesse, or buckler,..covered with steel-plating.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. iii. 75 St. Edmund's Shrine glitters..with a plating of wrought gold.
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xv. 325 The narrow-gauge armoured train... Two bogie trucks running before the locomotive were completely covered in with plating.
1895 Outing 26 381/1 There are five strakes of this plating from deck to garboard.
1942 G. C. Manning Man. Ship Constr. (1943) iii. 76 Sea chests which are secured to the inside of the shell plating.
1994 Independent on Sunday 9 Oct. 11/1 Sections of the side plating, probably weakened by years of undetected corrosion, were torn away, allowing the sea to pour into the hold.
b. The action of applying or attaching metal plates to something; (Surgery) the attachment of a metal plate to a fracture to hold the fractured parts together.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > [noun] > setting bones or dislocations > fixing of metal plate
plating1914
1855 Times 8 Dec. 5/1 The plating of the inner skin of the ship is commenced, and already forms a very considerable extent of cover.
1857 Sci. Amer. 28 Mar. 227/4 The stern is now up in place above the knuckle; some castings are being made for the lower part of the stern which prevent the completion of the plating of that portion.
1914 A. P. C. Ashhurst Surgery xii. 313 It is better not to plate a recent compound fracture.., but to postpone the plating until the soft parts have healed.
1971 W. J. W. Sharrard Paediatric Orthopaedics & Fractures xx. 985 (heading) Sound union of both fractures 8 weeks after plating.
1991 Highways & Transportation Sept. 10/1 Plating of the rib beams was rejected because..whilst plating to beam/slab soffits worked well for the provision of bending strength, the results for shear with plates bonded to the sides of beams were inconclusive.
5. Horse Racing. The fitting of a horse with light metal shoes for racing. Cf. plate n. 15. Now rare.
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1729 J. Cheny Hist. List Horse-matches 1728 56 Mr. Thornton's grey G. Creeper was lam'd in Plating and drawn after the 2d Heat.
1840–70 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports §1237 In the plating of race-horses, much caution is required in the selection of a proper smith.
1951 E. Rickman Come Racing with Me viii. 63 Principal items are veterinary charges, shoeing (or ‘plating’ as it is called).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > other processes
starching1390
drawing1579
lapper1732
animalization1783
gassing1822
stuff-presser1831
rot-steep1835
plating1843
oversizing1882
Schreinering1905
Schreinerizing1906
potting1920
tie-dye1926
ikat1931
pre-boarding1940
permanent press1944
stentering1946
1843 G. Dodd in Penny Mag. Apr. 168/1 A process termed ‘plating’ which..consists in putting a coating of silk on a substratum..of cotton.
7. Horse Racing. The action or practice of racing for (originally gold or silver) trophies (see plate n. 7).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing
steeple-hunting1772
quarter-racing1779
roading1787
pony racing1809
steeplechasing1816
steeple running1818
steeple racing1840
horse-trotting1857
plating1865
trotting1883
chasing1886
flat-racing1886
harness racing1901
flapping1911
flapper1928
point-to-pointing1952
pointing1976
1865 Daily Tel. 7 Nov. 5/2 Frittering away its money in minor and unseasonable plating.
1888 Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 21 Jan. 511/1 Will they [sc. young race-horses] descend to the depths.., and after a career of plating turn up some day in a selling hurdle-race, winner to be sold for £50?
1907 Times 10 June 4/2 The week between Epsom and Ascot is a quite one, and nearly all the racing will be of the plating order.
1986 Racing Post 25 Apr. 2/5 Sharp Times makes his first appearance in plating company in the Ness Selling Stakes..and it could be a winning one.
1995 Racing Post 14 July 40/1 Plating class novice over hurdles, but seemingly rejuvenated on the Flat.
8. Biology and Medicine.
a. The cultivation of microorganisms on a culture plate.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > culturing
culture1880
cultivation1881
plate culture1885
plate cultivation1886
test-tube culture1886
plating1898
subculturing1899
test-tube cultivation1899
explantation1915
replica plating1952
1898 Public Health Papers & Rep. 1897 (Amer. Public Health Assoc.) 23 81 The technical difficulties in the way of successful ‘plating’ in agar are considerable.
1916 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 1 513 Eight different samples of raw and heated soil were selected for this examination, some samples being plated immediately, others being incubated at 37°C. for 48 hours before plating.
1934 A. T. Henrici Biol. Bacteria xii. 201 The procedure most commonly used for obtaining pure cultures from mixtures of microbes is the process of plating introduced by Koch.
1969 M. R. Droop in J. R. Norris & D. W. Ribbons Methods in Microbiol. III. B. xi. 276 The sample for isolation will usually require a considerable degree of dilution before plating.
1989 Food Microbiol. 6 281/1 Present conventional detection methods for Listeria monocytogenes in foods involve enrichment, plating and biochemical testing that requires 1–4 weeks to complete.
b. concrete. The culture grown on such a plate.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > material > [noun] > culture or medium
culture1880
blood culture1881
cultivation1881
culture medium1883
pure culture1883
agar1885
broth1885
subculture1885
tube-culture1886
bouillon1887
stab-culture1889
streak culture1892
blood agar1893
microculture1893
shake culture1894
streak plate1895
broth culture1897
slant1899
plating1900
stock culture1903
touch preparation1908
tissue culture1912
plaque1924
slope1925
agar-agar1929
isolate1931
MacConkey1938
auxanogram1949
lawn1951
monolayer1952
replica plate1952
1900 Science 23 Mar. 458/2 After inoculation at 38°–40° for 12 to 18 hours, platings are made in litmus lactose agar.
1928 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 16 272 Platings were made of each sample of milk immediately after it was received.
9. The action of fixing a bookplate or library label in the front of a book.
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society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > labels > furnishing with
plating1906
1906 Daily Chron. 10 Aug. 3/2 ‘Plating’..would appear to be the process of affixing the book-plate to the inside of the first cover of the volumes.
1938 L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. 116 Plating, the process of pasting labels in library books.
10. Knitting. The action or technique of knitting with two yarns (of different colour, quality, etc.) so that one appears only on the front of the fabric while the other appears only on the reverse.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > knitting > processes involved in
grafting1841
toeing1871
increase1872
knocking over1875
underlap1926
plating1937
knock-over1952
1937 M. C. Miller Knitting Full-fashioned Hosiery xxi. 192 Plating on full-fashioned machines can produce fabrics in which the reinforcing yarn can be covered by the body yarn sufficiently to make a practical, even-appearing dyed fabric.
1946 A. J. Hall Standard Handbk. Textiles iii. 140 It is possible to run two threads at once into the knitting machine and arrange that one of these predominates in the back of the fabric whilst the other is mostly seen on the front... This method of knitting is known as plating.
1954 Textile Terms & Defs. (Textile Institute) 30 Plating usually involves the knitting of two yarns of different colour, different lustre, or different composition, so that only one of these yarns is visible on the face of the stitch.
1986 Knit & Stitch 31 June 31/3 Tuck stitch, slip stitch and plating are easily knitted and you can add to the versatility of your machine later.
11. The placing of food on a plate, esp. in an artistic or stylish manner.
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1963 Hotel & Catering Rev. Oct. 40/1 The plating of various lines.
1984 Nation's Restaurant News 24 Sept. 49/4 When the plating is done in the dining room.., the food is just sometimes plopped down on the plate.
1994 Guardian 26 Mar. (Weekend Suppl.) 45/1 Restaurant-style plating usually lies beyond the capabilities of home cooks working on their own, but some professional tricks can be applied domestically.
2002 N.Y. Mag. 4 Nov. 47/1 Neither description nor plating of Conant's homemade spaghetti with tomato and basil give any indication of its startling, fresh simplicity.
12. slang. Fellatio or cunnilingus; an instance of this.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > oral sex > [noun]
head1941
oral1943
oral sex1958
plating1965
1965 W. Young Eros Denied xiv. 137 Gamming, from the French gamahucher, or blowing, or plating, or noshing.
1969 J. Fabian & J. Byrne Groupie ii. 16 Why do you think plating is perverted? Everyone I know does it.
1984 A. Barr & P. Levy Official Foodie Handbk. i. 20/2 The hippies did something they called ‘plating’, which they also thought they had invented (the Romans called it cunnilingus and fellatio and thought they had invented it).
2000 H. Lederer in J. Adams et al. Girls' Night In 324 Amazing what the offer of a plating can do to placate an ugly scene, she mused.
13. The registration of a goods vehicle with transport authorities in order to obtain an official plate detailing the weight and other specifications of the vehicle. Cf. plate v. 12.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > testing, servicing, and storage of motor vehicles > [noun] > test of roadworthiness > of goods vehicle > provision of certificate
plating1968
1968 Economist 27 Jan. 61/2 All three firms have had a couple of prosperous years recently, benefiting from the rapid transition from rigid lorries to articulated vehicles and by the introduction of ‘plating’ and other new inspection requirements.
1972 Police Rev. 10 Nov. 1463/1 The Minister's approval certificate..will eventually obviate the necessity of attending the testing station for plating.
1981 Truck July 28/2 The DTP is considering introducing plating and testing on vehicles up to 7.5 tonnes gross.
Compounds
C1.
plating forge n.
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1750 Act 23 Geo. II c. 29 § ix, in Statutes at Large (1764) VII. 263 No mill or other engine for slitting or rolling of iron, or any plateing-forge to work with a tilt hammer, or any furnace for making steel, shall be erected..in any of his Majesty's colonies in America.
1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. III. 335 They have..a forge for making malleable iron, and a plating forge.
1953 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 19 159 (note) Governor Ogle reported in 1750 that there was only one plating forge in the colony [sc. Maryland].
plating liquid n.
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1844 Times 14 Dec. 10/1 (advt.) Upton's Parisian plating liquid gives the much-worn or coppery parts of plated articles a highly polished coat of pure silver.
1864 W. A. Miller Electr. & Magn. 132 (note) In order to effect this object, 6 ounces of bisulphide of carbon are directed to be agitated with 1 gallon of the plating liquid, and set aside for 24 hours.
1996 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 7 Dec. 19 The company also has an effective utilisation of wastes, such as valuable metals contained in sludge and plating liquid.
plating mill n.
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1720 T. Williams View Advantages to Company Min. Manufacturers at Neath 17 The best Ore must be had for making Copper fit for the Brass Kettles, or for the Plating-Mills.
1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 358 In 1750..Parliament..prohibited the erection in America of slitting, rolling, or plating mills, or steel furnaces.
1998 J. E. Triber True Republican ix. 145 By 1785 he had acquired his own plating mill for the production of sheet silver.
plating trade n.
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1795 W. Seward Anecd. Distinguished Persons II. 24 The family of Hancock, one of whom is said to have set on foot the Plating Trade at Sheffield.
1867 Sci. Amer. 16 Nov. 314/3 The introduction of the principles of electro-deposition..has altered the condition of the Sheffield plating trade to such an extent that it only exists to produce certain articles of large consumption and well-defined form.
1892 Daily News 24 Oct. 3/7 In the silver and plating trades many houses are busy on season orders.
1998 in K. Bruland et al. From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism 27 (table) Plating trades.
C2. † plating hammer n. Obsolete (a) a heavy hammer for fixing and clinching nails in plates; (b) any of various power hammers used to beat metal into plates or sheets.† plating shoe n. Obsolete a light shoe worn by racehorses when racing; = plate n. 15.
plating bar n. a bar made from special pig iron for making into iron plating.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > bar of iron > other types of bar
osmund1428
nail bar1817
merchant bar1838
round1862
plating bar1879
osmund piece1898
1879 Times 14 Mar. 6/4 There has been a little more doing within the last few days in plating bars for the edge-tool and implement makers.
1892 Daily News 13 June 2/7 There is a fair enquiry for plating bars.
1913 Times 23 Apr. 26/1 (advt.) Ingots, slabs, blooms, billets, plating bars, compound girders.
plating bath n. a bath containing the metallic solution in which articles to be plated are immersed.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > plating equipment
pan1839
washpot1839
plating bath1866
trough1877
branner1902
1866 Sci. Amer. 7 July 20/3 Melted gutta-percha makes an excellent coating for the parts of metals to be protected from the plating bath.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 24 Oct. 5/2 Purchasing bar silver for the purpose of strengthening their plating bath.
2004 New Materials Japan (Nexis) 1 Aug. 9 In the new plating process, the entire bobbin is immersed in a special solution in a special plating bath for electroless plating.
plating certificate n. a certificate stating that a goods vehicle has had a plating examination.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > testing, servicing, and storage of motor vehicles > [noun] > test of roadworthiness > of goods vehicle > certificate
plating certificate1968
1968 Goods Vehicles (Plating & Testing) Regulations (601) Reg. 2 ‘Ministry plate’ means a plate issued by the Minister for a goods vehicle following the issue or amendment of a plating certificate.
2004 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 30 Mar. 11 He supplied his plating certificate as evidence and the matter was dropped.
plating examination n. a legally-required inspection of a goods vehicle to establish weight, roadworthiness, etc.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > testing, servicing, and storage of motor vehicles > [noun] > test of roadworthiness > of goods vehicle
plating examination1973
1973 J. Duckworth Kitchin's Road Transport Law (ed. 16) 94 The first examination consists of a plating examination in which the vehicle's axle and gross weights are assessed and recorded on a plate, followed by a test of roadworthiness.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > hammer > other hammers
hand-hammereOE
maulc1225
plating hammer1543
bucker1653
axe-hammer1681
brick hammer1688
chipping hammer1783
tup1848
clinch-hammer1850
tack-hammer1865
bucking hammer1875
bloat1881
ringer1883
key hammer1884
peen hammer1885
straight pein1904
toffee hammer1958
1543 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 43 ij nalyng hamers ijd. Item a hake hamer with a platyng hamer, ijd.
1971 W. G. V. Gale Iron & Steel Industry: Dict. Terms 156 Plating hammer,..(obs.) any power hammer used for beating out plates or sheets.
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1840 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports III. iii. 354, §1238 Either of these varieties of plating shoes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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