PLAT

plat

(noun) a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.)

plat, plot

(verb) make a plat of; “Plat the town”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

plat (plural plats)

A plot of land; a lot.

A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.

(obsolete) A plot, a scheme.

Verb

plat (third-person singular simple present plats, present participle platting, simple past and past participle platted)

(transitive) To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.

Etymology 2

Noun

plat (plural plats)

A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).

Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.

Verb

plat (third-person singular simple present plats, present participle platting, simple past and past participle platted)

(dated, except, regional England) To braid, to plait.

Etymology 3

Adjective

plat (comparative more plat, superlative most plat)

(obsolete, except, Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.

Adverb

plat (comparative more plat, superlative most plat)

(obsolete, except, Scotland) Flatly, plainly.

Synonyms: bluntly, directly, straightforwardly

Anagrams

• PTAL, TLPA

Source: Wiktionary


Plat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Platted; p. pr. & vb. n. Platting.] Etym: [See Plait.]

Definition: To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait. "They had platted a crown of thorns." Matt. xxvii. 29.

Plat, n.

Definition: Work done by platting or braiding; a plait. Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. Shak.

Plat, n. Etym: [Cf. Plat flat, which perh. caused this spelling, and Plot a piece of ground.]

Definition: A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground. This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve. Milton. I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground. Tennyson.

Plat, v. t.

Definition: To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.

Plat, a. Etym: [F. plat. See Plate, n.]

Definition: Plain; flat; level. [Obs.] Gower.

Plat, adv.

1. Plainly; flatly; downright. [Obs.] But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat. Rom. of R.

2. Flatly; smoothly; evenly. [Obs.] Drant.

Plat, n.

1. The flat or broad side of a sword. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.

2. A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "To note all the islands, and to set them down in plat." Hakluyt.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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