plat
Noun:
- A map or diagram showing the planned or actual features of a piece of land, such as streets, building lots, and property boundaries.
- (Archaic) A small plot or piece of ground.
Verb:
- To make a map or diagram (a plat) of an area of land, showing its features and divisions.
Noun: The city engineer reviewed the plat for the new subdivision.The historical plat showed the original farm boundaries.
Verb: The surveyor will plat the entire township next month.They hired a firm to plat the proposed development.
- "to file a plat": To officially submit a land map to a government office for recording.
Platting (gerund/noun): The act or process of creating a plat. The platting of the coastal area took several months.
Plat book (noun): A book containing a collection of plats, often for a county. You can find your property's legal description in the county plat book.
- Map (noun): A diagrammatic representation of an area.
- Plot (noun): A measured area of land.
- Chart (noun/verb): A map, especially for nautical or aeronautical use; to map.
The word 'plat' is distinct from the homophone 'plait' (meaning a braid) and the word 'plate' (meaning a dish). In modern English, especially in American legal and surveying contexts, 'plat' almost exclusively refers to a land map. The archaic meaning of "a piece of ground" is the origin of the word 'plot' (as in a plot of land).
- a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.)
- make a plat of
- Plat the town