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• nickel plate
  nickel plate

  noun

  a thin coating of nickel deposited on the surface of a piece of metal, as by electroplating.
• nickel-plate
  nickel-plate

  verb (used with object)

  to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.

nickel plate

¹ American  

noun

1. a thin coating of nickel deposited on the surface of a piece of metal, as by electroplating.

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nickel-plate ² American  

[nik-uhl-pleyt] / ˈnɪk əlˈpleɪt /

verb (used with object)

nickel-plated, nickel-plating

1. to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.

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nickel plate British  

noun

1. a thin layer of nickel deposited on a surface, usually by electrolysis

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Etymology

Origin of nickel plate¹

First recorded in 1870–75

Origin of nickel-plate²

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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It was not a bath in the usual sense of water on tap, and shining nickel plate, but a bath for all that, where with premeditation and forethought one might bathe.

From The Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart

This film is not a coating added on the outside like paint and enamel or tin and nickel plate.

From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson

You can nickel plate a piece of copper in the following manner: Experiment 103.

From Common Science by John W. (John Woodside) Ritchie

There was a huge fellow the nickel plate on whose cap announced that he was a piano mover.

From Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday

In the sense of the poet Goethe—that meek idolater of provincial three carat royalty and nobility—our press is certainly bankrupt in the "thrill of awe"—otherwise reverence; reverence for nickel plate and brummagem.

From The American Claimant by Mark Twain

The trick that had to be done was to nickel-plate them inside.

From Time Magazine Archive

If it has a bone handle and nickel-plate finish besides, the customer cannot get his money out fast enough.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is all white tiling and shining nickel-plate, as easy to keep clean as a china dish, and just a delight to work in.

From The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry

"At the worst they can but scratch my beautiful nickel-plate," he said.

From The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Often Martie and Teddy had their supper at Childs', in the clean warm brightness of marble and nickel-plate.

From Martie, the Unconquered by Kathleen Thompson Norris

Rogue Paq Poppy Party Ashtray – The ultimate host’s ashtray, the Poppy Party Ashtray looks like a beautiful poppy, in polished brass or nickel-plated finishes.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

For nearly two decades, karak — an elixir of sugar, dehydrated milk and cardamom-infused tea — has largely been the same price, just one nickel-plated steel dirham coin.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2022

Its rounded lower curve rested in Clark’s lap while he bear-hugged the nickel-plated instrument’s middle and the foot-thick bell horn bloomed above him.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2020

That honor goes to a nickel-plated, cigar-smoking duck he made for the 1978 movie “Convoy” about an armada of truckers who confront a crooked Arizona sheriff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2017

The white sink, the commode, and the tub with the nickel-plated fixtures glowed in the pale moonlight.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Faber invented the nickel-plating of pencil tips, pencil point protectors, rubber tips.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the case of nickel-plating, the solution used is made from the double chloride or sulphate of nickel and ammonium, to which salt, sal-ammoniac, &c., may be added.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

Scales or circles divided on brass may be greatly improved in durability by nickel-plating.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

She was constructed many years ago and her nickel-plating is nearly gone.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer

The idle passengers, by this time mostly on speaking terms, begin to let the common metal of their real make-up show through the nickel-plating of the first interchange of courtesies.

From All Aboard A Story for Girls by Fannie E. Newberry