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electroplate

American  
[ih-lek-truh-playt] / ɪˈlɛk trəˌpleɪt /

verb (used with object)

electroplated, electroplating
  1. to plate or coat with a metal by electrolysis.


noun

  1. electroplated articles or ware.

electroplate British  
/ ɪˈlɛktrəʊˌpleɪt /

verb

  1. (tr) to plate (an object) by electrolysis

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. electroplated articles collectively, esp when plated with silver

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. coated with metal by electrolysis; electroplated

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of electroplate

First recorded in 1860–65; electro- + plate 1

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We went on past a display of electroplate with a card about presents in the window, past a window full of white flowers, past a carriage-builder's and a glove shop.

From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

There are oil paintings on the walls; there is an immense amount of the most expensive electroplate on the dinner table; the toilet accessories in the guest chambers are 'elegant' and recherché.

From Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies

It was not great oratory after all; it was not true oratory of any kind; but it was a splendid imitation of the real thing—the finest electroplate anywhere to be found.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

It has turned the electroplate workshops of the town on to making steel helmets, and in general has been "working in" the smaller engineering concerns so as to make them feed the larger ones.

From The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend by Joseph Hodges Choate

A metallic surface which it is intended to electroplate must, as has been mentioned, be scrupulously clean.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

Next to it, Ms. Van Herpen’s 2012 “Cathedral” dress, 3-D-printed polyamide and electroplated copper, embodies Hamlet’s comment on mankind’s imagination—“how infinite in faculty!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

For example, gold or silver is often electroplated onto less valuable metals.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026

Poor-quality electroplated, galvanized nails or screws could begin to corrode in just a few years.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

But it’s the electroplated etchings, sometimes daintily figurative and sometimes scarred into abstraction, that most fully express the aims of “Redoubt,” reflecting an artist seeking newer, freer shores.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2019

The family cat had been electroplated by lightning.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various

They deposited an extremely thin layer of thorium onto stainless steel using electroplating, a technique commonly used in jewelry.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026

They were treated with an electroplating process that fused a copper coating onto the forms, which were finished in bronze.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

Electrolysis is the basis for certain ore refining processes, the industrial production of many chemical commodities, and the electroplating of metal coatings on various products.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Precious metals such as gold could find their way into the sewers courtesy of mining, electroplating, electronics and jewelry manufacturing, or industrial and automotive catalysts.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 16, 2015

The positive metal electrode gradually dissolves and replaces the metal lost from the solution by deposit and electroplating can continue as long as any positive electrode remains.

From General Science by Bertha M. Clark

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