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silver-plating

silver-plating is the present participle and gerund of silver-plate.

Meaning of silver-plate

Verb

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

  1. To coat a metal surface with a thin layer of silver, often electrolytically.

Questions about silver-plating

What is silver-plating the present participle and gerund of?
Silver-plating is the present participle and gerund of silver-plate.

Words near silver-plating in the dictionary

  1. silver-needle noodle
  2. silver-needle noodles
  3. silver-plate
  4. silver-plated
  5. silver-plates
  6. silver-plating
  7. Silver-Russell dwarfism
  8. Silver-Russell syndrome
  9. silver-sheet
  10. silver-sheets
  11. silver-smith

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Adapted from Wiktionary: silver-plating (page history and authors); silver-plate (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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