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adj
Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: obsolete except Scotland
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adv
Flatly, plainly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: obsolete except Scotland
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Synonyms: bluntly, directly, straightforwardly
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noun
A plot of land; a lot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A plot, a scheme.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Clipping of platform
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
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noun
Clipping of platform game
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
Topics: video-games
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verb
To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To braid, to plait.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: dated except regional England
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noun
a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: map
verb
make a plat of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: plot
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Broader terms: map
History
From Middle English plat, plate, platte (“flat; smooth; blunt, plain”), from Anglo-Norman, Middle French, and Old French plat (“(adjective) flat, level; calm; blunt, plain; (adverb) in a flat position; directly, straight; bluntly, plainly”), from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flat; smooth”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat; wide”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleth2- (“flat”). The English word is cognate with French plat, Italian piatto, Middle Dutch plat (modern Dutch plat (“flat”)), Middle High German blat, plat, Middle Low German plat (modern German platt (“flat”)), Old Danish plat (modern Danish plat), Old Occitan plat (modern Occitan plat), Old Swedish plat (modern Swedish platt); and is a doublet of flat and pleyt.
The noun is derived from Middle English plat, platte (“flat part of a sword; flat piece of ground, plot of ground”), probably a variant of Middle English plot, (modern English plot) and influenced by Middle English plat, plate (modern English plate) and Anglo-Norman, Middle French and Old French plat. See platy-, plaice, flat. The verb is derived from the noun.
The noun is a variant of plait. The verb is from Middle English platte, English plat, respectively archaic past and past participle forms of English pleat (a variant of plait), Middle English platten (“to braid, weave; plait; to fold”).
Clipping of platform.
Across languages
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