different between plat vs blat

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /plæt/
• Rhymes: -æt
• Homophones: plait, Platte

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

plat (plural plats)

1. A plot of land; a lot.
2. A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
3. (obsolete) A plot, a scheme.

Translations

Verb

plat (third-person singular simple present plats, present participle platting, simple past and past participle platted)

1. (transitive) To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.

Translations

Etymology 2

The noun is a variant of plait.

The verb is from Middle English platte, English plat, respectively archaic past and past participle forms of English pleat (a variant of plait), Middle English platten (“to braid, weave; plait; to fold”).

Noun

plat (plural plats)

1. A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
   • c. 1806, record in the journals of Lewis and Clark, recorded in The United States Exploration Anthology (2013, ?ISBN):

     they also wear a cap or cup on the head formed of beargrass and cedar bark. the men also frequently attatch^[sic] some small ornament to a small plat of hair on the center of the crown of their heads.

   • 1830, The Ladies’ Museum, volume 31, page 59:

     [...] hair ornamented with a bandeau of gold on one side of the forehead, with a large pearl in the centre of the bandeau; on the opposite side is a plat of hair.

2. Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
   • 1824, New Material for Straw Plat, in The New England Farmer, volume 2, page 316:

     The large silver medal and twenty guineas, were this Session given to Miss Sophia Woodhouse, (Mrs. Wells,) of Weathersfield, in Connecticut, United States, for a new Material for Straw Plat.

   • 1829, On British Leghorn Plat for Hats and Bonnets, by Lady Harriet Bernard, in Gill’s Technological Repository, volume 4, page 381:

     Her Ladyship, in a letter to A. Aikin, Esq., [...] dated Castle Bernard, Ireland, Oct. 19, 1827, states that she has made some improvement in the mode of preparing the rye-straw, which is the material for plat employed in the school under her ladyship’s patronage.

   • 1842, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 23:

     Mr. Corston states that 781,605 straw hats had been imported from 1794 to 1803; and that in the last four years of that period 5281 lbs. of straw-plat, which was equal to 26,405 hats, had also been brought to this country.

   • 2000, Whittington Bernard Johnson, Race Relations in the Bahamas, 1784–1834:

     Eleuthera made palmetto plat for hats, arrowroot, and casaba starch.

   • 2002, John McAllister Ulrich, Signs of Their Times ?ISBN, page 45

     The most detailed example of this particular mode of production occurs in the section of Cottage Economy devoted to the making of straw plat for hats, fashioned from raw material grown in England.

Translations

Verb

plat (third-person singular simple present plats, present participle platting, simple past and past participle platted)

1. (dated except regional England) To braid, to plait.
   • 1844, Thomas Jefferson Jacobs, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Pacific Ocean, page 349:

     A customer hailed him; he placed the stool on the ground, and the customer seated himself upon it, while the barber shaved his face, platted his hair, and washed his hands [...]

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English plat, plate, platte (“flat; smooth; blunt, plain”), from Anglo-Norman, Middle French, and Old French plat (“(adjective) flat, level; calm; blunt, plain; (adverb) in a flat position; directly, straight; bluntly, plainly”), from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flat; smooth”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “flat; wide”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleth?- (“flat”).

The English word is cognate with French plat, Italian piatto, Middle Dutch plat (modern Dutch plat (“flat”)), Middle High German blat, plat, Middle Low German plat (modern German platt (“flat”)), Old Danish plat (modern Danish plat), Old Occitan plat (modern Occitan plat), Old Swedish plat (modern Swedish platt); and is a doublet of flat.

Adjective

plat (comparative more plat, superlative most plat)

1. (obsolete except Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.
   • c. 1400, John Lydgate, poem, commented upon by Thomas Gray and printed in The Works of Thomas Gray, volume 5, page 305:

     But, crying mercy, the emperour lay plat on the ground.

   • 1889, Henry Morley, Early Prose Romances: The history of Reynard the Fox, page 149:

     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.

   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company:

     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.

   • 2011, Gordon Kendall, MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations, volume 7.II: Gavin Douglas, The Aenid (1513) ?ISBN, page 638:

     The whirling wheel and speedy swift axle-tree / Smat down to ground, and on the earth lay plat.

Adverb

plat (comparative more plat, superlative most plat)

1. (obsolete except Scotland) Flatly, plainly.

   Synonyms: bluntly, directly, straightforwardly

   • c. 1547?1555, John Hooper, A Declaration of the Ten Commandments, published by the Parker Society in 1843:

     Fourth, see [that] thou hide nothing, nor dissemble, but speak plat, and plainly as much as thou knowest.

   • c. 1584?1656, Joseph Hall:

     But single out, and say once plat and plain / That coy Matrona is a courtesan;

References

Further reading

• plat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• plat (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “plat” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• plat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• PTAL, TLPA

Catalan

Etymology

Substantivization of the archaic adjective plat (compare French plat (“flat”)), from Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “flat”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?plat/

Noun

plat m (plural plats)

1. plate
2. dish

Related terms

• plata

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plat/
• Rhymes: -at

Etymology 1

From platit (“to pay”) derived from Proto-Slavic *plat? (“a piece of cloth”), as pieces of cloth were used as currency. Possibly cognate with plátno (“canvas, linen”).

Noun

plat m

1. salary

Declension

Synonyms

• mzda
• gáže
• výplata

Derived terms

• platový

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

plat

1. genitive plural of plato

References

Further reading

• plat in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• plat in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed via Middle Low German platt from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus, which probably is loan from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús), a cognate of Danish flad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?l?ad?]

Adjective

plat (plural and definite singular attributive platte)

1. inane, lacking inspiration, corny, insipid
   • 2016, Anne Strandvad, Vejen til Sofie, Lindhardt og Ringhof ?ISBN

     De ting, hun lavede, var platte og måtte klemmes ud af pligt. Først når de andre spillede dem, blev de til andet end livløse slag på klaveret.

     The things she made were uninspired and had to be squeezed out by duty. It was only when others played them that they became anything else than lifeless beatings on the piano.

   • 2006, Min krønike: 1932-1979, Gyldendal A/S ?ISBN, page 150

     Jeg fandt, at især de sidste fire linjer i visen var platte og stødende.

     I found that, in particular, the last four lines in the song were inane and offensive.

   • 2016, Jørgen Thorgaard, Kolonien, Lindhardt og Ringhof ?ISBN

     Enhver var af den opfattelse, Ladegaards morsomheder var platte.

     Everyone was of the view that Ladegaard's jokes were corny.

   • 2011, Irene Oestrich, Slip bekymringerne, Politikens Forlag ?ISBN

     ... at de syntes Carolines bemærkninger var platte, ...

     ... that they felt Caroline's remarks to be stupid, ...

   • 1986, Eske Holm, Den erotiske handel: roman

     Mænds fascination af Martin berørte ham meget lidt. Han syntes dog bøsserne var besværlige – han syntes, de oftest var platte og seksuelt fikserede.

     The fascination that men held for Martin affected him very little. He did however feel that the gays were troublesome – he felt that they were most often insipid and sexually fixated.

Inflection

Derived terms

• plathed

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch plat, from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus.

Adjective

plat (comparative platter, superlative platst)

1. flat

2. of soft consistency

Inflection

Derived terms

• platbranden
• plattegrond

Descendants

• Afrikaans: plat
• ? Sranan Tongo: plata

Etymology 2

From Platduits, which originally referred to any dialect specific to the low countries.

Noun

plat n (uncountable)

1. One’s local dialect.

   Kan jij plat praten?

   Can you speak the dialect?

Adjective

plat (comparative platter, superlative platst)

1. as one’s local dialect

2. (by extension) common, rural, vulgar

   een platte mop

Derived terms

• platte uitdrukking

Anagrams

• lapt

French

Etymology

From Middle French plat, from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “broad, flat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla/

Adjective

plat (feminine singular plate, masculine plural plats, feminine plural plates)

1. flat

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Romanian: plat

Noun

plat m (plural plats)

1. a flat area of ground; a flat thing; a flat dish or receptacle
2. dish or course (e.g. served in a restaurant)

Synonyms

• mets

Derived terms

Further reading

• “plat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Gothic

Romanization

plat

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flattened”)

Noun

plat m (oblique plural plaz or platz, nominative singular plaz or platz, nominative plural plat)

1. a footbridge

Romanian

Etymology

From French plat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [plat]

Adjective

plat m or n (feminine singular plat?, masculine plural pla?i, feminine and neuter plural plate)

1. flat, level, even

Declension

Noun

plat n (plural plate)

1. The high first tone in Hanyu pinyin

Synonyms

• tonul plat

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?at/

Noun

plat m (genitive singular platu, nominative plural platy, genitive plural platov, declension pattern of dub)

1. salary

Declension

Synonyms

• mzda

Derived terms

• platík m
• platovo adv
• platový -á -é

Related terms

• plati?
• výplata

Further reading

• plat in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

Imitative. First attested in 1846 in the intransitive sense of "bleat". Compare English bleat, Old English bl?tan (“to bleat”).

Verb

blat (third-person singular simple present blats, present participle blatting, simple past and past participle blatted)

1. (intransitive) To cry, as a calf or sheep; bleat.
2. (intransitive) To make a senseless noise.
   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

     A moment later the engine roared into life. Exhaust blatted through the straight-pipes; people stopped on the street to look.

3. To talk inconsiderately; blab.
4. To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba.
5. (transitive) To utter loudly or foolishly; blurt.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Russian ???? (blat), from Polish blat (“cover, umbrella”) or Yiddish ?????? (blat, “leaf, list”). Doublet of blade.

Noun

blat (uncountable)

1. The Soviet system of connections and social relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).

   Synonym: guanxi (from Chinese)

   • 2005, Adam Czarnota, Martin Krygier, Wojciech Sadurski, Rethinking the Rule of Law After Communism, page 334:

     The bribe caused the inflation of the social capital defined as blat. Monetarization of social relations led to the inflation of the social investments that the ordinary citizen has put in their blat networks. Only blat networks of the powerful survived ...

   • 2017, Joseph S. Berliner, "Blat", in David Twichell, The shallow stratigraphy and sand resources offshore of the Mississippi bar, age 326:

     The distinction between the use of blat for personal enrichment and for smoothing the work of the enterprise was emphasized in the interview testimony. [...] The supply agent, for example, often has large quantities of money at his disposal for arranging his blat, much of which he might use for himself but which he devotes instead to making deals of advantage to the enterprise.

Translations

Anagrams

• Balt, Balt.

Catalan

Etymology

From Medieval Latin bl?dum, from Frankish *bl?d (“field produce”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?daz, *bl?d? (“flower, leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (“to flower; leaf”). Compare French blé.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?blat/
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

blat m (uncountable)

1. wheat

Derived terms

• blat de moro

Further reading

• “blat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bla?t/

Noun

blat m

1. collective of blata: several rocks; rock as a mass or material

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *blat, from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *blad?.

Noun

blat n

1. leaf
2. page (of a book)
3. panel (in a door)
4. tongue, blade
5. any flat surface or object

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: blad
  • Afrikaans: blad
• Limburgish: blaad

Further reading

• “blat”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “blat (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Occitan

Etymology

From Medieval Latin bl?dum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blat/

Noun

blat m (plural blats)

1. wheat

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *blait, from Proto-Germanic *blaitaz. Cognate with Old High German bleizza (“stain, blue, livor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl??t/

Adjective

bl?t (comparative bl?tra, superlative bl?tast, adverb bl?te)

1. pale, livid, ghastly

Declension

Derived terms

• bl?tian

Related terms

• bl?tan

Descendants

• Middle English: *blat, *blate, *blot, *blote
  • >? Scots: blate, blait

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *blad?, whence also Old Saxon blad, Old English blæd, Old Norse blað. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?l?h?oto-, from *b?leh?-.

Noun

blat n (plural bletir)

1. leaf

Descendants

• Middle High German: blat
  • Alemannic German: Blatt

    Swabian: [Term?]

  • Central Franconian: Blatt, Blat

    Hunsrik: Blaat

    Luxembourgish: Blat

  • East Central German:

    Upper Saxon: [Term?]

    Vilamovian: b?ot

  • East Franconian: [Term?]
  • German: Blatt
  • Rhine Franconian: Blaat, Blatt

    Pennsylvania German: Blatt

  • Yiddish: ?????? (blat)

Polish

Etymology

From German Blatt, from Middle High German blat, plat, from Old High German blat, from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *blad?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blat/

Noun

blat

1. the flat surface of a table

Romanian

Etymology 1

From German Blatt, from Middle High German blat, plat, from Old High German blat, from Proto-West Germanic *blad (“leaf”), from Proto-Germanic *blad? (“leaf”); akin to Low German Blatt, Dutch blad, English blade, Danish and Swedish blad. Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek ?????? (phúllon), Latin folium.

Noun

blat n (plural blaturi)

1. (cooking) sheet, layer

Etymology 2

From Russian ???? (blat, “cronyism”), from Polish blat (“the flat surface of a table”) or Yiddish ?????? (blat), from German Blatt, from Middle High German blat, plat, from Old High German blat, from Proto-West Germanic *blad (“leaf”), from Proto-Germanic *blad? (“leaf”).

Noun

blat n (plural blaturi)

1. (slang) illegal activity, particularly travelling on a train without a ticket.
2. (soccer) match fixing

Derived terms

• blatist
• bl?tui

Declension