Plat
[plæt]
Definition
(noun.) a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.).
(verb.) make a plat of; 'Plat the town'.
Typed by Essie--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.
(n.) Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.
(n.) A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground.
(v. t.) To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
(n.) Plain; flat; level.
(adv.) Plainly; flatly; downright.
(adv.) Flatly; smoothly; evenly.
(n.) The flat or broad side of a sword.
(n.) A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Braid, weave, plait, mat.
n. Plot, piece of ground.
Checker: Shelia
Definition
v.t. Same as Plait.
n. a piece of ground: a piece of ground ornamentally laid out: (obs.) a plan scheme.—v.t. to make a map or plan of.—n. Plat′-band a border of flowers in a garden: (archit.) a slightly projecting square moulding an architrave fascia a list between flutings.
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Examples
- A grass plat and borders fronted the cottage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Thebes with all B?otia submitted, and was pressed into the Persian army, except one town, Plat?a, whose inhabitants fled to Athens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was born about 484 B.C., so that at the time of the battle of Plat?a he was a child of five years old. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He descended the one step, and advanced slowly and gropingly towards the grass-plat. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I sat down and asked the waiter what the plat du jour was. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Thomasin did not move further than to turn her eyes upon the grass-plat where the Maypole had stood. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- After 479 B.C. (Plat?a) the spirit seems to have gone out of the government of the Medes and Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There were no flowers, no garden-beds; only a broad gravel-walk girdling a grass-plat, and this set in the heavy frame of the forest. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is permitted to dream in this field, for it is this reaching out into the unknown that plats the boundaries of an extended world, and adds to the possessions of man. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Checker: Presley