Plating vs. Bulwark

Platingnoun

(philately) An act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet.

Platingnoun

A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.

Platingnoun

A coating or defensive armour of metal plates.

Platingnoun

The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition.

Platingnoun

A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.

Platingnoun

A coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel) plates.

Platingnoun

a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface

Platingnoun

the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis)

Plating

Plating is a surface covering in which a metal is deposited on a conductive surface. Plating has been done for hundreds of years; it is also critical for modern technology.

Bulwarknoun

A defensive wall or rampart.

Bulwarknoun

A defense or safeguard.

Bulwarknoun

A breakwater.

Bulwarknoun

(nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.

Bulwarknoun

(figurative) Any means of defence or security.

Bulwarkverb

(transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.

Bulwarkverb

(transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.

Bulwarknoun

A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.

Bulwarknoun

That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection.

Bulwarknoun

The sides of a ship above the upper deck, usually a fencelike structure around the deck.

Bulwarkverb

To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.

Bulwarknoun

an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes;

Bulwarknoun

a fence-like structure around a deck

Bulwarknoun

a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away

Bulwarkverb

defend with a bulwark