Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A flat plate, slab, or disk that is ornamented or engraved for mounting, as on a wall for decoration or on a monument for information.
- n. A small pin or brooch worn as an ornament or a badge of membership.
- n. Pathology A small disk-shaped formation or growth; a patch.
- n. A deposit of fatty material on the inner lining of an arterial wall, characteristic of atherosclerosis.
- n. A scaly patch formed on the skin by psoriasis.
- n. A film of mucus and bacteria on a tooth surface.
- n. A clear, often round patch of lysed cells in an otherwise opaque layer of a bacteria or cell culture.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An ornamental plate; a brooch; the plate of a clasp.
- n. A square, oblong, or circular tablet of bronze or silver, the largest dimension of which extends to three or four inches, ornamented in relief with some religious, mythological, allegorical, or decorative subject. The Pax, from which the plaque originated, is set in an ornamental framework; the Renaissance plaque was intended to be hung up or inserted in a box or a piece of furniture, or, if circular, to be worn as a hat-medallion. Also called
plaquette . - n. Any tablet or distinctly flat plate of metal or porcelain, whether plain or ornamented; partieularly. an ornamental circular plate intended for a wall-decoration. See cut in next column.
- n. The especial decoration of a high rank in many honorary orders. See star, insignia, order, 6 .
- n. In anatomy and zoology, a small flat object of round figure, as a blood-disk; a little plate. Also plaquette
- n. A patch.
- n. A billon or silver coin current in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in Brabant, Liège, Lorraine, and France.
Wiktionary
- n. Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.
- n. uncountable An accumulation of biofilm, or bacteria on teeth.
- n. uncountable, medicine Atheroma, an accumulation in artery walls made up of macrophage cells and debris containing lipids, (cholesterol and fatty acids), calcium, and connective tissue.
- n. biology A clearing in a bacterial lawn caused by a virus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body
- n. a memorial made of brass
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French plaque, derivative of plaquer ("to plate"), from Middle Dutch placken ("to patch, beat metal into a thin plate"), from placke ("disk, patch, stain"), from Old Dutch *plagga ("patch"), from Proto-Germanic *plaggan (“patch”). Cognate with Middle Low German placke, plagge ("small stain, scraps, rags, thin grass"), German Placken ("spot, patch"), Eastern Frisian plak, plakke ("a blow, slap"), Swedish plagg ("clothing, garment"). See plack. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French, metal plate, perhaps from Middle Dutch placke, disk, patch. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He pointed to the empty space on the door where a name plaque should be.”
“The piece is created by following a simple set of instructions, stated adjacent to the art on the title plaque:”
“And that is a powerful drug that can get in there and can break up what we call plaque, it's stuff that is clogging up arteries, whether it's an artery to a heart that's causing an heart attack or an artery to the brain that's causing a stroke.”
“Though a title plaque and an opportunity to extend their season was the primary prize, Rough Riders senior outside hitter Megan Velasquez said that wasn't all that was at stake for she and her teammates.”
“Chang Jiechi’s eyes remained on his son for a long moment then slid to the name plaque on the improvised altar.”
“(Bubonic plaque is endemic among the rodents that were be hunted, so you DID NOT want to skin a sick animal, and you could not know if a trapped animal had been sick.)”
“Mucoid plaque is mainly formed when your body has excessive amounts of toxic waste matter.”
“Mucoid plaque is a potential health hazard because it spoils your digestion, blocks the absorption of nutrients, allows parasites to breed and becomes a breeding ground for harmful toxins.”
“A tacky GIRL POWER plaque is just lipstick on a pig. woodstock Says:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘plaque’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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Here Comes Almost Everybody
words of what happens when one is left behind.
reference to Joyce's Book of the Dark (a dissecting of Finnegan's Wake)enervated, unnerved, vitiated, thinned, enfeebled, gone to seed, pilfered, quaff, plaque, antithesis, blimp, listless and 7 more...
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Anatomically Correct
canthus, vibrissa, femoral, sphenoid, dura mater, pia mater, epiglottis, glottis, mons veneris, plaque, tibia, ulna and 96 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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parody's Words
defenestrate, behemoth, floss, macchiato, glom, emu, alpaca, crocheted, ampersand, charade, conflate, salacious and 193 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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nfrank's Words
antediluvian, equivocate, inchoate, denouement, effulgent, edify, endemic, palimpsest, apropos, circumnavigate, circumlocution, cognoscente and 484 more...
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MEC1 Lesson 120
superstition, rub, rally, fill-up, stiffness, athritis, maker, maximum, strength, caplet, brush, tartar and 9 more...
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The Writing on the Wall
Or the pictures. Or the ads. You get the idea. :-)
petroglyph, pictograph, pictogram, graffiti, pintada, ideogram, billboard, signboard, placard, poster, plaque, affiche and 5 more...
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Ad Speak
This list will house words I encounter on packaging and in advertisements.
microwaveable, phenylketonurics, phenylalanine, bioplastic, compostable, biocompostable, all natural, resealable, cholesterol, organic, serving, guaranteed and 57 more...
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dillinger's list
Hooray!
cabbage, parsnip, ruminate, castor, crispy, droll, croquet, copse, tickle, wisp, fasten, plaque and 5 more...
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Ends With "Que"
plaque, appliqué, bisque, communiqué, grotesque, marque, monocoque, odalisque, baroque, brusque, dantesque, critique and 46 more...
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