noun
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a coating or layer of material, esp metal
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a layer or covering of metal plates
Etymology
Origin of plating
Example Sentences
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Max Muncy supplied their lone early RBIs, plating one run on a fourth-inning double and another on a sixth-inning groundout.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2025
Instead of plating a large piece of chicken with sweet potatoes and rice on the side, transform those same ingredients into a sweet potato risotto with chicken.
From Salon • Mar. 30, 2025
The chemical, a white crystal-like solid with a faint almond odour, is used in industry for metal cleaning, plating and extraction, and photography.
From BBC • Aug. 14, 2024
Her style, which she described as “clear painting,” looks backward to mannerism and forward to futurism and has a high-gloss sheen to it, like the chrome plating of a motorcar.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2024
She finished plating the slice of pie before she left the counter.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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