plating
noun
[ ˈpleɪtɪŋ ]
• a thin coating of gold, silver, or other metal.
• "the pendants are enhanced by gold plating"
• an outer covering of flat metal sections.
• "the tractors carried steel plating for protection"
• the process of knitting two yarns together so that each yarn appears mainly on one side of the finished piece.
• the racing of horses in which the prize for the winner is a plate.
plate
verb
• cover (a metal object) with a thin coating of a different metal.
• serve or arrange (food) on a plate or plates.
• "overcooked vegetables won't look appetizing, no matter how they are plated"
• score or cause to score (a run or runs).
• "Matt Wignot plated two of Clarkson's runs"
• inoculate (cells or infective material) on to a culture plate, especially with the object of isolating a particular strain of microorganisms or estimating viable cell numbers.
Origin:
Middle English (denoting a flat, thin sheet, usually of metal): from Old French, from medieval Latin plata ‘plate armour’, based on Greek platus ‘flat’. plate (sense 1 of the noun) represents Old French plat ‘platter, large dish’, also ‘dish of meat’, noun use of Old French plat ‘flat’.
