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Definition of 'plaque'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) plaque
a thin, flat plate or tablet of metal, porcelain, etc., intended for ornament, as on a wall, or set in a piece of furniture.

2.  plaque
an inscribed commemorative tablet, usu. of metal, placed on a building or monument.

3.  plaque
a platelike brooch or ornament, esp. one worn as a badge.

4.  plaque
a flat, often raised patch on any external or internal body surface.

5.  plaque
an abnormal hardened deposit on the inner wall of an artery.

6.  plaque
a soft, sticky, whitish film formed on tooth surfaces, composed of bacteria, mucin, and other matter.

7.  plaque
a clear area in a laboratory dish of a bacterial culture, indicating dead bacteria.

Etymology: (1840–50; < F, n. der. of plaquer to plate < MD placken to patch; cf. placket)

Definition of 'plaque'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) plaque
(pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body

2. (noun) brass, memorial tablet, plaque
a memorial made of brass

Definition of 'plaque'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) plaque
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

Translation of 'plaque'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a plate of metal etc fixed to a wall etc as a memorial His name was inscribed on a brass plaque.
Afrikaans: plaat	Arabic: صَفيحَة مَعْدَنِيَّه	Bulgarian: гравирана табелка
Brazilian: placa	Czech: deska	German: die Gedenktafel
Danish: mindeplade	Greek: πλάκα που στήνεται ως μνη	Spanish: placa
Estonian: mälestustahvel	Farsi: پلاک؛ نشان یادبود	Finnish: laatta
French: plaque	Hebrew: שֶלֶט הַנצָחָה	Hindi: फलक
Croatian: plaketa, medaljon	Hungarian: emléktábla	Indonesian: plaket
Icelandic: veggskjöldur/-platti	Italian: placca, targa	Japanese: 銘板
Korean: 장식 액자, 현판	Lithuanian: lenta, lentelė	Latvian: plāksne
Malay: plak	Dutch: gedenkplaat	Norwegian: (minne)plate
Polish: płyta, tablica	Persian: پلاک؛ نشان یادبود	Pashto: د يادونى يا يادګاري نښان
Portuguese: placa	Romanian: placă	Russian: дощечка, табличка
Slovak: doska	Slovenian: spominska plošča	Serbian: spomen-ploča
Swedish: platta, minnestavla	Thai: แผ่นเหล็กสำหรับจารึก	Turkish: plâket, levha
Taiwanese: 匾	Ukrainian: меморіальна дошка	Urdu: دھات کي تختي
Vietnamese: tấm; bản	Chinese: 匾
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