Plaque

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  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A small pin or brooch worn as an ornament or a badge of membership.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A deposit of fatty material on the inner lining of an arterial wall, characteristic of atherosclerosis.
  • noun. A scaly patch on a body part, especially the skin.
  • noun. A film of mucus and bacteria on a tooth surface.
  • noun. A lesion found in the brain tissue of people with Alzheimer's disease, consisting mainly of beta-amyloid protein and degenerating nerve tissue.
  • noun. A sharply defined zone of demyelination in the brain characteristic of multiple sclerosis.
  • noun. A clear, often round patch of lysed cells in an otherwise opaque layer of a bacteria or cell culture.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An ornamental plate; a brooch; the plate of a clasp.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The especial decoration of a high rank in many honorary orders. See star, insignia, order, 6 .
  • noun. In anatomy and zoology, a small flat object of round figure, as a blood-disk; a little plate. Also plaquette
  • noun. A patch.
  • noun. A billon or silver coin current in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in Brabant, Liège, Lorraine, and France.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. An accumulation of biofilm, or bacteria on teeth.
  • noun. Atheroma, an accumulation in artery walls made up of macrophage cells and debris containing lipids, (cholesterol and fatty acids), calcium, and connective tissue.
  • noun. A clearing in a bacterial lawn caused by a virus.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body
  • noun. a memorial made of brass
  • Word Usage
    "He pointed to the empty space on the door where a name plaque should be."
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    Adak  Black  Braque  Chirac  Jack  
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    ashtray  bracelet  bust  carving  casket  
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