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🥇 To cover with gold ✨ To add extras
to gold-plate

to gold-plate

2 5.5
To put a thin layer of gold on something
  • verb
  • /ˈɡoʊldˌpleɪt/
  • Specialized
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  • So in order to do this, you typically gold plate these objects so that they're conductive.
  • gold-plated copper

And so his Lincoln Town Car, they gold plated his entire Lincoln Town Car.

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Examples

  • And so his Lincoln Town Car, they gold plated his entire Lincoln Town Car.

    Julian Dorey

  • The jewelry store specializes in gold-plating rings and bracelets to enhance their appearance.

  • And on one surface of this iron plate, there is signs of gold that it was gold plated at one time.

    Danny Jones

  • It actually has gold plated brass.

  • I think this one's gold plated as well or the bezel is gold plated.

  • After all, I've seen these luxury phones, the gold plated phones before, but with the matte finish on the back.

  • It's got this gorgeous little Mayan pendant and she actually has a lot of her jewelry in both gold plated and the fine versions.

  • But, without a doubt, the coolest item is a gold-plated chandelier made with 32 saxophones.

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  • You'll notice that there's gold plated PCB here that's to expose the inner ground layer to the edge of the PCB.

  • The artist decided to gold-plate the sculpture to give it a luxurious finish.

Synonyms

to gild
vsto gold-plate
5 7.0

Cover an object with a thin layer of gold or metal that looks like gold

focuses on plating specifically using chemical or electrochemical methods
to goldplate
vsto gold-plate
  • Specialized
6.5

To cover an object with a thin layer of gold

is the hyphenated form of the same plating action
to engild
vsto gold-plate
  • Archaic
9.9

To cover something with gold or thin gold leaf

applies a thin metallic layer by a chemical or electrochemical process
to begild
vsto gold-plate
  • Archaic
9.9

To put thin gold or gold leaf on something

denotes the technical thin plating process rather than decorative leaf work

How Gilded

to gold-plate
  • Specialized
2 5.5
gold leaf
6 4.3
to begild
  • Archaic
9.9
to paint
854 1.0

Surface Forms

gold-plate infinitive
gold-plated past
gold-plated past participle
gold-plating present participle
gold-plates third person singular

Morphology

gold-plate = gold + plate (transparent) = gold + plate

The sense is a literal compound: to coat (plate) something with gold, so the meaning is directly derived from the components.

Etymology

Gold-plate comes from the words gold and plate, where plate means a thin 'sheet' of metal, so to gold-plate something is to 'cover' it with a thin layer of gold to make it shine.