platter
See also: Platter
English
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From Middle English plater, from Anglo-Norman plater, dissimilatory variant of platel, from Old French plate (“metal plate”) (see plate). Doublet of plateau.
Noun
platter (plural platters)
- A tray for serving foods.
- 1765, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or, A Prospect of Society
- While his lov'd partner boastful of her hoard,
- Displays the cleanly platter on the board;
- 1765, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or, A Prospect of Society
- A main dish and side dishes served together on one plate.
- The hard surface of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played.
- (computing) One of possibly many disks on which data is stored in a mechanical hard drive.
Translations
tray for serving food
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part of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests
hard disc component
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See also
- platter lift
- on a silver platter
- silver platter
Noun
platter (plural platters)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for platter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
German
Pronunciation
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Adjective
platter
- inflection of platt:
- strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- strong genitive/dative feminine singular
- strong genitive plural
Luxembourgish
Middle English
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