plat
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: plats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: platting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: platted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: platted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more plat
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most plat
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more plat
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most plat
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A plot of land; a lot.
pos: noun
examples: The best ſoyle commonly yeelds the worſt Ayre, a dry ſandy plat is fitteſt to build upon, and ſuch as is rather hilly then plaine, full of Downes, a Cotſwald county, as being moſt commodious for hawking, hunting, wood, waters, and all manner of pleaſures.
Such pleaſure took the Serpent to behold
 This Flourie Plat, the ſweet receſs of Eve
 Thus earlie, thus alone; [...]
O Blackbird! sing me something well: / While all the neighbours shoot thee round, / I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, / Where thou may’st warble, eat, and dwell.
[W]e come to a spot which must have been a favorite resting-place for the poet, a low stone seat under a huge live oak, with a formal plat of grass and a stone seat opposite.
gloss: A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
pos: noun
examples: For which cauſe I wiſh you to enter into conſideration of the matter, & to note all the Iſlands, and to ſet them downe in plat, to two ends: that is to ſay, That we may deuiſe to take the benefit by them, And alſo foreſee how by them the Sauages or ciuill Princes may in any ſort annoy us in our purpoſed trade that way.
A husband can not, without authority from his wife, plat her land, and the fact that the land which he assumes to plat was omitted by mistake from a previous plat made and acknowledged by her can make no difference.
The purpose of the preapplication conference is to allow the developer to meet informally with the planning board before going to the expense of preparing a formal plat.
In 1877, a formal plat of the unincorporated village was published [...]. The publication of the plat, seven years after the village was laid out, likely reflected the beginning of the process toward formal incorporation of the municipality.
gloss: A plot, a scheme.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Besides some care is taken, so far as conveniently can be, both to give regard to the further spring of any matter tending to the entry or execution of any other or evil plat, and also upon the sight thereof, to have timely recourse to the King, to warn him and others to beware and provide for the seasonable prevention of the danger; [...]
[S]o shall our plat in this one point be larger and much surmount that which [Richard] Stanihurst first tooke in hand by his exameters dactilicke and spondaicke in the translation of Virgills Eneidos, [...]
gloss: To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A husband can not, without authority from his wife, plat her land, and the fact that the land which he assumes to plat was omitted by mistake from a previous plat made and acknowledged by her can make no difference.
He platted his land, extending the lateral lines of the lots south of Shore, or India street, indefinitely out into the river.
[...] it may vacate a street where the original Owner has merely platted his land to conform to streets already located and established by the municipality, where no lot has been sold by such owner prior to such vacation.
Vistas in San Francisco—a city whose real estate development platted out land geometrically and gridded over a series of hills—offer vertical, stunning viewscapes of architecture and the Bay, natural and built environments.
gloss: Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.
pos: adj
examples: But else, hold alway^([sic]) your tail fast between your legs that he catch you not thereby; and hold down your ears lying plat after your head that he hold you not thereby; and see wisely to yourself.
But now, youngster, I have answered you freely, and I trow it is time that you answered me. Let things be plat and plain between us. I am a man who shoots straight at his mark.
The whirling wheel and speedy swift axle-tree / Smat down to ground, and on the earth lay plat.
gloss: Flatly, plainly.
pos: adv
examples: Fourth, see [that] thou hide nothing, nor dissemble, but speak plat, and plainly as much as thou knowest.
But single out, and say once plat and plain / That coy Matrona is a courtesan;
Derived words: grassplat
platband
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