silver-plated

silver-plated
Describing something that has a thin coating of the metal silver applied to it.

The spoon looked like sterling, but actually it was cheap silver-plated steel.


Wikipedia foundation.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • silver-plated — silver plāˈted adjective • • • Main Entry: ↑silver * * * adj : covered with a thin layer of silver a silver plated tray * * * ˌsilver ˈplated ; adjective …   Useful english dictionary

  • silver-plated — ADJ Something that is silver plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver. ...silver plated cutlery …   English dictionary

  • silver plated — Synonyms and related words: aureate, brass, brassy, brazen, bronze, bronzy, chromium plated, copper, copperplated, coppery, cupreous, cuprous, electroplated, ferrous, ferruginous, gilt, gold, gold filled, gold plated, golden, iron, ironlike, lead …   Moby Thesaurus

  • silver plated — coated in silver …   English contemporary dictionary

  • Plated ware — refers to articles chiefly intended for tableware consisting of an base metal or alloy covered by one of the precious metals, with the object of giving them the appearance of gold or silver. Historically, the standard amount of precious metal… …   Wikipedia

  • silver plate — n [U] metal that is covered with a thin layer of silver >silver plated adj ▪ a silver plated candlestick …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Silver — Sil ver (s[i^]l v[ e]r), n. [OE. silver, selver, seolver, AS. seolfor, siolfur, siolufr, silofr, sylofr; akin to OS. silubar, OFries. selover, D. zilver, LG. sulver, OHG. silabar, silbar, G. silber, Icel. silfr, Sw. silfver, Dan. s[ o]lv, Goth.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Silver beater — Silver Sil ver (s[i^]l v[ e]r), n. [OE. silver, selver, seolver, AS. seolfor, siolfur, siolufr, silofr, sylofr; akin to OS. silubar, OFries. selover, D. zilver, LG. sulver, OHG. silabar, silbar, G. silber, Icel. silfr, Sw. silfver, Dan. s[ o]lv,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Silver glance — Silver Sil ver (s[i^]l v[ e]r), n. [OE. silver, selver, seolver, AS. seolfor, siolfur, siolufr, silofr, sylofr; akin to OS. silubar, OFries. selover, D. zilver, LG. sulver, OHG. silabar, silbar, G. silber, Icel. silfr, Sw. silfver, Dan. s[ o]lv,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • plated — [plāt′id] adj. 1. covered or protected with plates, as of armor 2. knitted of two kinds of yarn, one forming the face and the other the back 3. overlaid or coated with a metal, esp. a precious one, by a plating process [silver plated] …   English World dictionary

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”