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🔩 To replace a plate 🥄 To coat with metal
to replate

to replate

1 8.2
Attach a new plate to make something stronger or repair it
  • verb
  • /rɪˈpleɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : reemplazar
  • The engineer plans to replate the damaged part to ensure it can support the weight.

Examples

  • The surgeon will replate the damaged bone.

  • She replates dental implants regularly.

  • The engineer had to replate the damaged section of the bridge to ensure its safety.

  • After the initial surgery failed, the doctor decided to replate the bone with a stronger material.

  • It is sometimes necessary to replate old equipment to restore its structural integrity.

  • After the accident, the technician had to replate the broken section of the pipe.

  • To improve stability, they decided to replate the old framework with new materials.

Antonyms

to remove
∞ 1.5

To move something or someone away from a place

How Supportive

to reinforce
99 3.9
to replate
  • Specialized
1 8.2
to replace
∞ 1.8
to repair
365 1.0
to patch
151 2.5
plate
296 3.4

Surface Forms

replate infinitive
replated past
replated past participle
replating present participle
replates third person singular

Morphology

replate = plate (transparent) = re + plate

This sense is a regular use of re- meaning 'again' or 'anew' added to the verb 'plate'.

Etymology

Replate comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and the word plate meaning 'a flat piece of metal or support'. So, to replate in engineering or surgery is to put a new plate back in place to make something strong or repair it.