silver-plate

See also: silverplate and silver plate

English

Verb

silver-plate (third-person singular simple present silver-plat, present participle ing, simple past and past participle silver-plated)

1. To coat a metal surface with a thin layer of silver, often electrolytically.

Related terms

• silver plate

Translations

to coat a metal surface with a thin layer of silver

• Finnish: hopeoida
• Italian: argentare (it)
• Polish: posrebrzać (pl)
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• Portuguese: argentar (pt)
• Russian: серебри́ть (ru) impf (serebrítʹ), посеребри́ть (ru) pf (poserebrítʹ)
• Spanish: platear (es), argentar (es)