Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One engaged in the manufacture of metallic plates, or in their application in the arts and manufactures.
- noun A machine for calendering paper by means of heavy pressure between smooth plates of metal.
- noun One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver: generally in composition: as, silver-plater, gold-plater, nickel-plater.
- noun A horse that competes for a plate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Horse Racing) A horse that runs chiefly in plate, esp. selling-plate, races; hence, an inferior race horse.
- noun One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver.
- noun A machine for calendering paper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who
plates metal . - noun someone who installs sheet metal and
armour plating , particularly on trains, ships, tanks, and similar items - noun A machine for
calendering paper.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a skilled worker who coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold)
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Examples
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The champion Arab of the world was matched against one of the worst thoroughbreds in training; the English "plater" carried about five stone more than the pride of the East, and won by a quarter of a mile.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871
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They want jobs but they are not looking for any, they want health care but they are not sick, they want everything handed to them on a silver plater.
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I like the sound of this, however I still want a single-plater RPG KotOR game.
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May 29th, 2008 12: 49 pm ET well why wouldnt he have good health he is only 46yr old and has never done a hard labor job in his life running in this campane is probley the most stress he has ever had to go through so why wouldnt he have good health i would have to if i my whole life had had everything handed to me on silver plater sheep
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The house smelled of dust, mothballs, old wood, and the earthy smell of old fashioned plater-coated walls in the cool morning air.
Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries... Sarah Lenz 2008
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If you win it will be because you EARNED IT and not had it handed to you on a silver plater like BO.
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Her parents, Barry and Sally, are a plater and a cleaner respectively.
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The house smelled of dust, mothballs, old wood, and the earthy smell of old fashioned plater-coated walls in the cool morning air.
Archive 2008-06-01 Sarah Lenz 2008
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Mr. Smith said he isn't sure the plater, which he declined to name, will survive.
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That is why Democrats will give them the state on a plater as long as they keep giving them money to stay in power.
chained_bear commented on the word plater
"He would lose touch with the horse world for months, only to surface 'with a string of fast ones' in Juarez, Mexico, then go back into his rabbit hole until a reporter spotted him at a running track in Ottawa with 'a bunch of cheap Canadian platers.'"
—Charles Leerhsen, Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 325
October 28, 2008