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plat

WordNet
Plinth of the plat-de-ménage of the Swan service. The plinth consists of nine pieces of porcelain: a centerpiece with scalloped and gilded edge, around which eight shell-shaped parts with ditto edge join together on an oak floor surrounded by a gilt bronze edge. The outer edge consists of a plinth above which rocks, flowers and leaves, coral, shells and snails are attached. The top surface is decorated with Kakiemon spreading flowers. The pedestal is marked.
Plinth of the plat-de-ménage of the Swan service. The plinth consists of nine pieces of porcelain: a centerpiece with scalloped and gilded edge, around which eight shell-shaped parts with ditto edge join together on an oak floor surrounded by a gilt bronze edge. The outer edge consists of a plinth above which rocks, flowers and leaves, coral, shells and snails are attached. The top surface is decorated with Kakiemon spreading flowers. The pedestal is marked.
  1. (v) plat
    make a plat of "Plat the town"
  2. (n) plat
    a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.)
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Plat
    A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart. "To note all the islands, and to set them down in plat ."
  2. Plat
    A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground. "This flowery plat , the sweet recess of Eve.", "I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground."
  3. Plat
    Flatly; smoothly; evenly.
  4. Plat
    Plain; flat; level.
  5. Plat
    Plainly; flatly; downright. "But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat ."
  6. Plat
    The flat or broad side of a sword.
  7. Plat
    To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait. "They had platted a crown of thorns."
  8. Plat
    To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
  9. Plat
    Work done by platting or braiding; a plait. "Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat ."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. plat
    To strike with the hand; strike.
  2. (n) plat
    A plot or patch of land laid off for or devoted to some particular purpose: as, a garden-ptat; a plat of ground.
  3. (n) plat
    A flat representation of such plots or patches; a map or plan.
  4. (n) plat
    A plan or design; scheme; plot.
  5. plat
    To make a ground-plan of; map or plot; lay down on paper: as, to plat a tract of land; to plat a town.
  6. plat
    Flat; level; plain.
  7. plat
    Specifically, in lace-making, flat and of uniform texture: said of the sprigs or flowers; hence, in general, noting the sprigs of bobbinlace, which are flat, as compared with those of needle-point lace, which may have relief.
  8. (n) plat
    A beam or plank laid horizontally; a horizontal timber.
  9. (n) plat
    A large flat stone used as the landing-place of a stair.
  10. (n) plat
    The flat side of a sword.
  11. (n) plat
    The sole of the foot. Compare plant.
  12. (n) plat
    In mining, an enlargement of a level where it connects with a shaft used for raising ore, its object being to facilitate that operation, especially in mines where the ore is raised in kibbles.
  13. plat
    Flatly; plainly; bluntly.
  14. plat
    Smoothly; evenly.
  15. plat
    To lay down flat or evenly; spread.
  16. plat
    To iuterweave; make or shape by interweaving; wattle; plait. See plait.
  17. plat
    To embrace.
  18. (n) plat
    A plaited or braided thing; something produced by plaiting or interweaving: as, straw plat for hats; a plat of hair.
  19. (n) plat
    Nautical, a braid of foxes. See fox, 4.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.t) Plat
    plat Same as Plait.
  2. (n) Plat
    plat a piece of ground: a piece of ground ornamentally laid out:
  3. (v.t) Plat
    to make a map or plan of
  4. (n) Plat
    plat (obs.) a plan, scheme
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. Plat flat, which perh. caused this spelling, and Plot a piece of ground

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Plot.

Usage in the news

FBC final plat approved Heather Mays. farragutpress.com

Farragut Municipal Planning Commission unanimously approved the final plat for First Baptist Concord and the relocated Belleaire Drive. farragutpress.com

NEW YORK–The Conran Shop has named Emmanuel Plat president of The Conran Shop New York. hfnmag.com

Having been at The Conran Shop since 1992, Plat has served as vice president of the New York store since 2004. hfnmag.com

Meeker County approves Union Grove plat . paynesvillearea.com

The plat , at the center of a zoning dispute last fall, had previously been approved by the Meeker County Planning Commission on Thursday, Jan 13. paynesvillearea.com

The third plat added four new lots - a total of 1.7 acres - to the city. paynesvillearea.com

Pre- platted land is the gift that keeps on giving, so to speak, as much of Lee County is still trying to find a solution to growing communities that are not only residential but also viable centers for commercial activity. cape-coral-daily-breeze.com

Following the closed session by Boonville City Council meeting on Monday, the council decided to reconsider the re- platting . boonvilledailynews.com

I'll take my dessert to go, s'il vous plaît. ashingtonpost.com

1 Heirs to the crooning style of the Ink Spots and the Mills Brothers, the Plat. rollingstone.com

All that part of Terning Trail, according to the recorded plat thereof, Wright County, Minnesota. herald-journal.com

It's a hidden alley, obscured by the march of time and relegated only to old plats and history books. charlestoncitypaper.com

Alex Any chance Carlisle is going to let Roddy plat at the 2 and stop the experiment at the 1. dallasnews.com

Consideration of a final subdivision plat for property located on Rutherford Lane (Reed Division). jle.com

Usage in scientific papers

Darcy, Solving tangle equations using four-plats, to appear in J.
From tangle fractions to DNA

One says that a system of ob jects and morphisms has some property local ly if this property holds after some extension of scalars (here the word “locally” refers to the topology fppf — fidelement plat de presentation finie).
Tensor categories (after P. Deligne)

Given a braid with an even number of strands, another natural way to create a link is called the plat closure.
Quantum algorithms for algebraic problems

The plat closure can be viewed as the trace closure of a braid on 2n strands together with 2n additional straight strands.
Quantum algorithms for algebraic problems

In other words, ` Ui → U is “fid`element plat de pr´esentation finie”. ´Etale topology.
Algebraic stacks

Usage in literature

We can plat it, and within ten days we may have ouah money back. "Aladdin & Co." by Herbert Quick

Detta beror hufvudsakligast pa foerslappning af de band som uppbara detta organ eller halla det pa sin plats. "Treatise on the Diseases of Women" by Lydia E. Pinkham

A grass plat and borders fronted the cottage. "Shirley" by Charlotte Brontë

Dig a trench on one edge of the plat designed for the bed, and the length of it, eighteen inches wide and two feet deep. "Soil Culture" by J. H. Walden

Repubs., 778; tries to have it in plat., 779. "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2)" by Ida Husted Harper

The furrows stopped here and some plats of garden ground lay along by the road. "Waterloo" by Émile Erckmann

The walls of the ancient "ecclesiastical city" enclose a plat nearly triangular in form. "The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine" by Francis Miltoun

It was to run through the Town of Fairfax as shown by the plat below. "A History of the Town of Fairfax" by Jeanne Johnson Rust

At the point the road abruptly ends, and there is a plat of hard ground. "The Utah Batteries: A History" by Charles R. Mabey

He parked the copter on the garage-plat, pressed the button, and watched it sink slowly out of sight to its concealed hangar. "The Ambassador" by Samuel Kimball Merwin

Usage in poetry
Peter the Repeater,
Platted round a platter
Slips of slivered paper,
Basting them with batter.
"Cats Cradle Song," by James Clerk Maxwell Author object (322)
And they twa met, and they twa plat,
And fain they wad be near;
And a' the warld might ken right weel,
They were twa lovers dear.
"The Douglas Tragedy" by Andrew Lang Author object (36)
M was a mischievous Marten,
Who went to the Free Kindergarten;
When they asked him to plat
A gay-colored mat,
He tackled the job like a Spartan.
"An Alphabet Zoo" by Carolyn Wells
Up with the day, the sun thou welcom'st then,
Sport'st in the gilt plats of his beams,
And all these merry days mak'st merry men,
Thyself, and melancholy streams.
"The Grasshopper" by Richard Lovelace Author object (559)
They platted next a new invented crown
Of thorns, and o'er his temples press'd it down,
Until the blood well'd from each spouting wound,
And streaming down his cheeks, inrich'd the ground.
"The Life And Death Of Christ" by Rees Prichard
Then Pilate, the Roman Governor, took Jesus and scourged Him,
And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and thought it no sin
To put it on His head, while meekly Jesus stands;
They put on Him a purple robe, and smote Him with their hands.
"The Crucifixion of Christ" by William Topaz McGonagall