plated

1. 1
   adjective

   Coated with a thin layer of metal, often gold, silver, or chrome, applied over a base material.

   The faucet is plated with chrome to resist corrosion.

   Antique dealers can tell solid silver from plated pieces at a glance.

   Similarcoated, silvered, gilded

   Oppositesolid

2. 2
   adjective

   Covered with bony plates or overlapping scales that form a tough protective layer.

   Crocodiles have heavily plated skin running along their backs.

   The fossil revealed a thickly plated creature unlike anything alive today.

   Similararmored, scaly, scaled

3. 3
   adjective

   Arranged and presented individually on a plate before being served, rather than offered from a shared serving dish.

   The caterer offered a plated meal instead of a buffet.

   Reviewers praised the carefully plated desserts at the new restaurant.

4. 4
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of plate.

   The workshop plated the old fixtures to restore their shine.

   Each medal was plated with silver before being engraved.

   Note

   One regular -ed form serves every verb sense of plate, and those senses range widely: a jeweler plates a ring, a chef plates a dish, a team plates a run, a travel agent plates a ticket. After have it builds the perfect; after be it builds the passive. There it shades into the "metal-coated" adjective, so the spoons were plated can describe either an action or a state.

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