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Definitions for Plaque

[1] 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] an inscribed commemorative tablet, usually of metal placed on a building, monument, or the like.
[3] a platelike brooch or ornament, especially one worn as the badge of an honorary order.
[4] Anatomy , Pathology . a flat, often raised, patch on the skin or other organ, as on the inner lining of arterial walls in atherosclerosis.
[5] Dentistry . a soft, sticky, whitish matlike film attached to tooth surfaces, formed largely by the growth of bacteria that colonize the teeth.
[6] Bacteriology . a cleared region in a bacterial culture, resulting from lysis of bacteria by bacteriophages.
[7] an ornamental or commemorative inscribed tablet or plate of porcelain, wood, etc
[8] a small flat brooch or badge, as of a club, etc
[9] pathol any small abnormal patch on or within the body, such as the typical lesion of psoriasis
[10] short for dental plaque
[11] bacteriol a clear area within a bacterial or tissue culture caused by localized destruction of the cells by a bacteriophage or other virus

Words related to Plaque

plate, medal, decoration, badge, slab, nameplate, disk, brooch, patch

Words nearby Plaque

plantocracy, plantsman, plantswoman, planula, planum, plaque, plash, plashy, plasm, plasm-, plasma

Origin of Plaque

1840–50; < French, noun derivative of plaquer to plate < Middle Dutch placken to patch; cf. placket

Words that may be confused with Plaque

plague, plaque

Word origin for Plaque

C19: from French, from plaquier to plate, from Middle Dutch placken to beat (metal) into a thin plate

Synonyms for Plaque

badge, decoration, medal, nameplate, plate, slab, brooch, disk, patch