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plater

[ UK /plˈe‍ɪtɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɫeɪtɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a skilled worker who coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold)

How To Use plater In A Sentence

  • Millions of consumer electronics devices - mobile phones, PDAs, PVRs, and DVD platers - are already running on stripped-down embedded versions of Linux.
  • Wark's job as a plater is to cut and shape the steel, while McArdle's is to put the structure in place on the berth before the welders come along and join the steel blocks together.
  • For almost four years, he had worked as an electroplater, and he had recently qualified as a forklift truck driver.
  • Granada, in the heart of their great conquest; and it is a most beautiful church, of a mingled Saracenic plateresque Gothic, as the guide-books remind me, and extravagantly baroque as I myself found it. Familiar Spanish Travels
  • You'd say he was a selling-plater if you didn't know he had such a huge heart and inexhaustible lungs. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's allegedly the most photogenic of the nine hells. (Photos: L Plater and phototravel).
  • When this is grayed with age it is indeed of the effect of old silver work; but the plateresque in Valladolid does not suggest fragility or triviality; its grace is perhaps rather feminine than masculine; but at the worst it is only the ultimation of the decorative genius of the Gothic. Familiar Spanish Travels
  • Peter Forestus in his observations delivereth as much in the same words: and Felix Platerus de mentis alienat. cap. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Worthy of admiration, too, are several old plateresque rococo altarpieces. The Oaxaca Valley: a week's adventures in a single day...
  • Muslim culture, as absorbed by Spanish Christians, also indirectly influenced the New World in the form of family honor codes, home design and the plateresque style of architecture.
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