Plating: alternatives and connections

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes.

The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steel…

A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under Germa…

A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.

A picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark bac…

A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon.

A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.

Silver plate or vessels.

To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency; as, to arm the hit of a sword; t…

A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of t…

A process resembling "nature printing," by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the pr…

Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed.

A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.

To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight…

A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -…

That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspers…