Plating vs. Bulwark — What's the Difference?

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.

A wall or embankment raised as a defensive fortification; a rampart.

A thin layer of metal, such as gold or silver, deposited on or applied to a surface.

Something serving as a defense or safeguard

A coating of metal sheets or plates.

A breakwater.

Present participle of plate

Often bulwarks The part of a ship's side that is above the upper deck.

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

To fortify with a wall, embankment, or rampart.

A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.

To provide defense or protection for

A coating or defensive armour of metal plates.

A defensive wall or rampart.

The presentation of food that is ready to be served.

A defense or safeguard.

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.

A breakwater.

A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.

(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.

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

(figurative) Any means of defence or security.

A thin coating of metal deposited on a surface

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

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

(transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.

A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.

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

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

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

An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes;

A fence-like structure around a deck

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

Defend with a bulwark