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platter
plat·ter P0362100 (plăt′ər)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) n1. (Cookery) a large shallow usually oval dish or plate, used for serving food2. (Cookery) a course of a meal, usually consisting of several different foods served on the same plate: a seafood platter. [C14: from Anglo-Norman plater, from plat dish, from Old French plat flat; see plate]plat•ter (ˈplæt ər)
n. 1. a large, shallow dish for holding and serving food. 2. a course of a meal, usu. consisting of a variety of foods served on the same plate. 3. a phonograph record. [1250–1300; Middle English plater < Anglo-French, derivative of plat dish. See plate, -er2] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  platter - a large shallow dish used for serving foodflatware - tableware that is relatively flat and fashioned as a single piece | | 2. |  platter - sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groovedisc, phonograph record, phonograph recording, record, diskacetate disk, phonograph recording disk - a disk coated with cellulose acetateLP, L-P - a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at 33.3 rpm78, seventy-eight - a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minuteaudio recording, sound recording, audio - a recording of acoustic signals |
platternoun plate, dish, tray, charger, salver, trencher (archaic) The food was served on silver platters.Translationsplatter (ˈplatə) noun a kind of large, flat plate. a wooden platter. 大淺盤 大浅盘
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(one's) head on a plate/platterA phrase used hyperbolically to refer to a very harsh punishment. If I find out that Paul was the one who sabotaged my presentation to the board, I'll have his head on a plate! Identify the vandals, and bring me their heads on a platter!See also: head, on, plate, plattergive (something) to (one) on a (silver) platterTo give or relinquish something to one very easily, without them having to work very hard to get or achieve it. The team's defense has been atrocious today, giving a victory to their opponents on a platter. If we can get the government to subsidize our project, we'll have our yearly earnings given to us on a silver platter.See also: give, on, platteron a silver platterDelivered or given to one, without having put forth much or any effort. Of course the CEO's daughter got the job without having to interview—she gets everything on a silver platter.See also: on, platter, silveron a platterEasily and without any or much fuss, work, or effort. I was lucky enough to fall into a cushy managerial role, without much direct supervision or constraints—it's a great life that's just been handed to me on a platter. You've been given every opportunity in life on a platter, but still you whine and complain when things don't go exactly the way you want.See also: on, platterhand (something) to (one) on a (silver) platterTo give or relinquish something to one very easily, without them having to work very hard to get or achieve it. The team's defense has been atrocious today, handing a victory to their opponents on a platter. If we can get the government to subsidize our project, we'll have our yearly earnings handed to us on a silver platter.See also: hand, on, platter*on a silver platterFig. using a presentation [of something] that is appropriate for a very formal setting. (*Typically: give something to someone ~; present something ~; serve something ~; want something ~.) Aren't paper plates good enough for you? You want dinner maybe on a silver platter?See also: on, platter, silverhand to on a silver platterAlso, serve up on a plate. Provide with something valuable for nothing, or give an unearned reward to; also, make it easy for. For example, She did no work at all, expecting to have everything handed to her on a silver platter, or Just ask them-they'll serve up the data on a plate. Both terms allude to being elaborately served at the table. [Early 1900s] Also see born with a silver spoon. See also: hand, on, platter, silverplattersee under hand to on a silver platter. on a silver platter or on a platter If you are given something on a silver platter or on a platter, you are given it without having to work or make an effort to get it. You expect me to hand you everything on a silver platter, and when you don't get it, you stamp your little foot and cry. The Opposition has been handed this issue on a platter. Note: A platter is a large plate or shallow dish used for serving food. See also: on, platter, silveron a silver platter (or salver) without having been asked or sought for; without requiring any effort or return from the recipient. The image here is of a butler or waiter presenting something on a silver tray.See also: on, platter, silver(hand something to somebody) on a silver ˈplatter give something to somebody without expecting them to do or give anything in return: I don’t like her at all — she expects to be handed everything on a silver platter as if she’s better than other people.A platter is a large plate that is used for serving food.See also: on, platter, silverplatter1. and plate n. home base or home plate in baseball. (Usually with the.) The batter stepped up to the platter. 2. n. a phonograph record. (Old but still heard.) They call it a “platter” because it looks like a serving platter. on a platter Without exertion; effortlessly: always got what they wanted on a platter.See also: on, platterplatter
platter[′plad·ər] (computer science) One of the disks in a hard-disk drive or disk pack. platterOne of the disks in a hard disk drive. Each platter provides a top and bottom recording surface. There may be only one or several platters in a drive with each platter having its own pair of read/write heads. See magnetic disk.
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| Although solid state drives (SSDs) have become mainstream, disk platters are likely to be spinning for quite a while. This earlier 5.25" drive with 14 platters held 9GB total. Today's disk drives have 700 times as much data in that same amount of platter space. (Image courtesy of Singapore Technologies.) |
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| The tiny Microdrive is history, and hard disk drives will eventually follow suit. See Microdrive and microSD. |
MedicalSeePlattplatter
Synonyms for platternoun plateSynonyms- plate
- dish
- tray
- charger
- salver
- trencher
Synonyms for platternoun a large shallow dish used for serving foodRelated Wordsnoun sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous grooveSynonyms- disc
- phonograph record
- phonograph recording
- record
- disk
Related Words- acetate disk
- phonograph recording disk
- LP
- L-P
- 78
- seventy-eight
- audio recording
- sound recording
- audio
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