Meaning

10 senses
  1. (countable)Any flat, thin piece of clay, ivory, metal, etc., used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a dish, plate, slab, etc., hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn by a person, such as a brooch.

    Plakette

    бля́шкаbljáška, бля́хаbljáxa

  2. (countable)A piece of flat metal with writing on it, attached to a building, monument, or other structure to remind people of a person or an event.

    мемориа́льная доска́memoriálʹnaja doská, табли́чкаtablíčka

  3. (countable)A small card representing an amount of money, used for betting in casinos; a sort of gaming chip.

  4. (countable)A clearing in a bacterial lawn caused by a virus.

  5. (countable)In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system: any flat, thin musical instrument.

    blown plaques

    aconcussion plaques

  6. (countable)A broad patch of abnormal tissue distinguishable from surrounding tissue, especially a broad papule (“inflamed, irritated patch”) on the skin.

  7. (countable, uncountable)An abnormal accumulation of material in or on an organ of the body, often associated with disease.

    amyloid plaque

    apleural plaque

    (pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body

  8. An abnormal accumulation of material in or on an organ of the body, often associated with disease.

    (countable, uncountable)An accumulation in artery walls made up of macrophage cells and debris containing lipids, (cholesterol and fatty acids), calcium, and connective tissue; an atheroma.

  9. (uncountable)An accumulation of biofilm, or bacteria, on teeth, which may develop into dental calculus (tartar).

    Zahnbelag, Plaque

    зубно́й ка́меньzubnój kámenʹ

    зубний ка́міньzubnyj káminʹ

  10. (countable)A deposit of beta-amyloid protein occurring in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.

Examples

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  1. The plaque has to be removed.

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  2. Mouth rinse will not remove plaque.

    deMundspülungen entfernen Plaque nicht.

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  3. What does the red plaque say?

    deWas steht auf dem roten Schild?

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  4. Tartar is a form of hardened dental plaque.

    ruЗубной камень - это отвердевший зубной налёт.

    deZahnstein ist eine Form verhärteten Zahnbelags.

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  5. I think I have a lot of plaque build up.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
accumulation of biofilm, or bacteria, on teeth:
Русский
By meaning 3
flat, thin piece of clay, ivory, metal, etc., used for ornament:
piece of flat metal with writing on it to remind people of a person or event:
accumulation of biofilm, or bacteria, on teeth:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
flat, thin piece of clay, ivory, metal, etc., used for ornament:
accumulation of biofilm, or bacteria, on teeth:

Origin

Unadapted borrowing from French plaque (“plate, sheet (of metal); slab (of marble); bacter

Unadapted borrowing from French plaque (“plate, sheet (of metal); slab (of marble); bacteria on teeth”), from French plaquer, Middle French plaquer (“to plate”), from Middle Dutch placken (“to patch, beat metal into a thin plate”), from placke (“disk, patch, stain”), from Old Dutch *plagga (“patch”), from Proto-Germanic *plaggą (“patch”).

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