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Plat : (noun)
1: a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets
and building lots etc.)
(verb)
1: make a plat of; "Plat the town" [syn: plot]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Plat : \Plat\, n. [Cf. Plat flat, which perh. caused this
spelling, and Plot a piece of ground.]
A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or
for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground.
This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve. --Milton.
I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground. --Tennyson.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Plat : \Plat\, v. t.
To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Plat : \Plat\, a. [F. plat. See Plate, n.]
Plain; flat; level. [Obs.] --Gower.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Plat : \Plat\, n.
1. The flat or broad side of a sword. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
--Chaucer.
2. A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart. [Obs.
or Prov. Eng.] ``To note all the islands, and to set them
down in plat.'' --Hakluyt.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Plat : \Plat\, adv.
1. Plainly; flatly; downright. [Obs.]
But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat. --Rom. of R.
2. Flatly; smoothly; evenly. [Obs.] --Drant.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Plat : \Plat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Platted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Platting.] [See Plait.]
To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.
``They had platted a crown of thorns.'' --Matt. xxvii. 29.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Plat : \Plat\, n.
Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.
Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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PLAT. A map of a piece of land, in which are marked the courses and
distances of the different lines, and the quantity of land it contains.
2. Such a plat;nay be given in evidence in ascertaining the position of
the land, and what is included, and may serve to settle the figure of a
survey, and correct mistakes. 5 Monr. 160. See 17 Mass. 211; 5 Greenl. 219;
7 Greenl, 61; 4 Wheat. 444; 14 Mass. 149.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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