PLAT (platted, platting)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected forms: platted    , platting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does plat mean? 

• PLAT (noun)
  The noun PLAT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PLAT used as a noun is very rare.

• PLAT (verb)
  The verb PLAT has 1 sense:

1. make a plat of

  Familiarity information: PLAT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("plat" is a kind of...):

map (a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it))

• PLAT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a plat of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

plat; plot

Context example:

Plat the town

Hypernyms (to "plat" is one way to...):

map (make a map of; show or establish the features of details of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

There were no flowers, no garden-beds; only a broad gravel-walk girdling a grass-plat, and this set in the heavy frame of the forest.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Let things be plat and plain between us.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He descended the one step, and advanced slowly and gropingly towards the grass-plat.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)