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plater

plater noun: someone who plates metal.

Noun

plater (plural platers)

  1. Someone who plates metal.
  2. Someone who installs sheet metal and armour plating, particularly on trains, ships, tanks, and similar items.
  3. A machine for calendering paper.
  4. A device for depositing cells on a plate.
  5. A horse that runs chiefly in selling plates; hence, an inferior racehorse.

Proper noun capitalized: Plater

Plater (plural Platers)

  1. A surname.

plater meaning in Tamil

plater in Tamil

தட்டு

Forms of plater

Noun
pluralplaters
Proper noun
pluralPlaters

Origin of plater

From plate + -er.

Phrases with plater

Words that rhyme with plater

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Questions about plater

What does plater mean?
Plater means someone who plates metal.
What is plater in Tamil?
Plater in Tamil is தட்டு. See Plater meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is plater?
Plater can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of plater?
The plural of plater is platers.

Words near plater in the dictionary

  1. plateosaurid
  2. plateosaurids
  3. plateosaurs
  4. plateosaurus
  5. plateosauruses
  6. plater
  7. plateresque
  8. Platero
  9. plateroom
  10. platerooms
  11. plateroon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plater (page history and authors); Plater (page history and authors); plater (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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