From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plate \Plate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Plated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plating}.]
1. To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.
2. To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.
Thus plated in habiliments of war. --Shak.
3. To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.
4. To beat into thin, flat pieces, or lamin[ae].
5. To calender; as, to plate paper.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition.
2. A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
3. A coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel) plates.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface [syn: {metal plating}]
2: the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis)
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "plating": anodized aluminum, chromium plate, coat, coating, collop, copperplate, covering, cut, deal, disk, electrocoating, electroplating, feuille, film, flap, foil, fold, gold plate, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, leaf, membrane, nickel plate, pane, panel, patina, peel, pellicle, plait, plank, plate, ply, plywood, rasher, safety glass, scum, sheet, silver plate, skin, slab, slat, slice, table, tablet, veneer, wafer
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