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placca — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • plaque noun A flat piece of metal, stone, or similar material fixed to a wall or monument, usually bearing an inscription that commemorates a person or event.
  • plate noun A flat, shallow dish used for serving or eating food.
  • shell noun The hard outer covering of certain animals, such as snails, crabs, and turtles, or of eggs and nuts.

Senses

placca is used for these senses in English:

  • atheroma (pathology) An abnormal fatty deposit which develops within the walls of arteries.
  • plaque (countable) Any flat, thin piece of clay, ivory, metal, etc., used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a dish, plate, slab, etc., hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn by a person, such as a brooch.
  • plaque (countable, pathology) A broad patch of abnormal tissue distinguishable from surrounding tissue, especially a broad on the skin.
  • plate A flat object of uniform thickness.
  • plate (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
  • shell The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.

plaque — full definition

  1. noun A flat piece of metal, stone, or similar material fixed to a wall or monument, usually bearing an inscription that commemorates a person or event.
  2. noun A sticky film of bacteria that builds up on the surface of teeth.
  3. noun A deposit of abnormal material in body tissue, such as fatty deposits in artery walls.

plate — full definition

  1. noun A flat, shallow dish used for serving or eating food.
  2. noun A rigid piece of metal, glass, or other material with a flat, uniform shape.
  3. noun A vehicle's license plate.
  4. noun One of the large rigid sections of the Earth's crust that move over time; a tectonic plate.
  5. verb To coat the surface of an object with a thin layer of another metal.

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