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nickel-plate

nickel-plate verb: to plate an object with a thin coat of nickel.

Verb

nickel-plate (third-person singular simple present nickel-plates, present participle nickel-plating, simple past and past participle nickel-plated)

  1. to plate an object with a thin coat of nickel

Forms of nickel-plate

third-person singular presentnickel-plates
present participlenickel-plating
past participlenickel-plated
pastnickel-plated

Questions about nickel-plate

What does nickel-plate mean?
Nickel-plate means to plate an object with a thin coat of nickel.
What part of speech is nickel-plate?
Nickel-plate is a verb.
What is the past tense of nickel-plate?
The past tense of nickel-plate is nickel-plated.

Words near nickel-plate in the dictionary

  1. nickel-and-dime
  2. nickel-and-dimed
  3. nickel-and-dimes
  4. nickel-and-diming
  5. nickel-in-the-slot
  6. nickel-plate
  7. nickel-plated
  8. nickel-plates
  9. nickel-plating
  10. nickel-rich
  11. nickel-silver

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