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platter

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plat·ter  (pltr)
n.
1. A large shallow dish or plate, used especially for serving food.
2. A meal or course served on a platter.
3. Slang A phonograph record.
Idiom:
on a platter
Without exertion; effortlessly: always got what they wanted on a platter.

[Middle English plater, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French plate, plate; see plate.]

platter [ˈplætə]
n
1. (Cookery) a large shallow usually oval dish or plate, used for serving food
2. (Cookery) a course of a meal, usually consisting of several different foods served on the same plate a seafood platter
[from Anglo-Norman plater, from plat dish, from Old French plat flat; see plate]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.platterplatter - a large shallow dish used for serving food
flatware - tableware that is relatively flat and fashioned as a single piece
2.platterplatter - sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
acetate disk, phonograph recording disk - a disk coated with cellulose acetate
L-P, LP - a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at 33.3 rpm
78, seventy-eight - a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute
audio recording, sound recording, audio - a recording of acoustic signals

platter
noun plate, dish, tray, charger, salver, trencher (archaic) The food was served on silver platters.
Translations
platter [ˈplætəʳ] N
1. (esp US) (= dish) → fuente f
2. (= meal, course) → plato m
a cheese platteruna tabla de quesos
3. (US) (= record) → disco m

platter [ˈplætər] n
(mainly US) (= serving dish) → plateau m
(= course) → plateau m
a cheese platter → un plateau de fromage

platter
nTeller m; (= wooden platter also)Brett nt; (= serving dish)Platte f; (inf: = record) → Platte f; to have something handed to one on a (silver) platter (fig)etw auf einem (silbernen) Tablett serviert bekommen; to demand somebody’s head on a platter (fig)jds Kopf verlangen

platter [ˈplætəʳ] npiatto da portata
platter [ˈplætəʳ] npiatto da portata

platter
n platter [ˈplatə]
a kind of large, flat plate a wooden platter. bord, dienbord طَبَق поднос tác fad die Platte πιατέλα fuente vaagen دیس tarjoiluvati plat צַלַחַת הַגָשָׁה कठौती pladanj,često drven tál talam fat piatto (ovale) 大皿 대형 접시 plokščia lėkštė paplāte pinggan leper plat bord fat taca travessa platou блюдо tácka, podnos pladenj oval uppläggningsfat จานตื้นขนาดใหญ่ servis tabağı 大淺盤 велика пласка тарілка بڑا پليٹ، تھالي đĩa phẳng (bằng gỗ để đựng thức ăn)


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So Uncle Henry lifted the kettle from the fire and poured its contents into a big platter which the Wizard held for him.
Thus followed by his men, one bearing the head of Peter of Colfax upon the platter of gold, Norman of Torn passed quietly from the hall and from the castle.
Toto sat at one end of this table with a bib tied around his neck and a silver platter to eat from.
 
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