platter
/ˈplatə
/- Frederick has already started to produce his Christmas line of serving dishes, platters, bowls and teacups, which will be on sale at the open studio.
- While that's going on, put the bread bowl on a serving platter or an oversized plate, and artlessly arrange the bread chunks around it.
- Donovan and Darius sprang to life, scooping food onto their plates before passing the platters and dishes to their father.
Synonyms
- But for most of the night I sulked and pouted because I couldn't get stuck into the free flowing Leeuwin wines and the abundant platters of Margaret River cheeses.
- Long wooden tables were laden with goblets of ale and platters of meats, fruits, cheeses, and breads.
- We were served platters of Marco Polo meat and treated like visiting dignitaries, then informed we were going to prison.
- Crossover point is the seafood platter, served in the restaurant or on one of the frequent weekend barbecues (weather permitting).
- The cooks outdid themselves with all manner of sandwiches, cold cut platters, salads and other goodies shipped and stowed just for the occasion.
- Food is freshly cooked and carefully presented: Mrs Kearsley's crab salad platter, seafood chowder with aïoli, and roasted John Dory or chorizo with red wine sauce.
- In a classic example of these nausea-inducing rides, you stand along the edge of a large circular platter, with your back against a perimeter wall.
- Right now I'm chilling with Jurassic 5, and Tool primarily, but I've been dusting off my old Public Enemy platters.
- It started with a few scratchy 45s that an aunt had bestowed on me as an alternative to throwing the precious platters in the direction of a Blue Peter bring-and-buy sale.
- Like its counterpart on the other side of the platter, this audio track is very weak and also seems to have a subtle hum in the background.
- The smaller disc platters also inherently make less noise.
- Jeck's endlessly rotating platters, like the whirr of moving film, serve as a constant reminder of the time-based nature of the medium.
- As the different colored bits scroll by on the hard drive platter, you need to quickly read them in the correct order before you suffer a buffer underflow.
- Typically, up to five magnetic storage discs, known as platters, are used.
Phrases
on a (silver) platter
Origin
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French plater, from plat 'large dish' (see plate).
plate from Middle English:
A plate first described a flat, thin sheet, usually made of metal. It goes back, via medieval Latin plata ‘plate armour’, to Greek platus ‘flat’. Plate as in dinner plate is from the Old French form, plat which meant both platter (ME from the same source) ‘large dish’, and ‘dish of meat’. Plateau (late 18th century) is from Old French platel, a ‘little plate’. Platform (mid 16th century) is from French plateforme ‘ground plan’ (literally ‘flat shape’), and platitude (early 19th century) is from plat in the sense of a dull, flat form of expression. Early explorers of Australia found they had to find names for many new animals. They turned to local languages for some names (see kangaroo), but for others they invented new Latin and Greek terms as in the duck-billed platypus. The name given to the animal by George Shaw in 1799 in his Naturalist's Miscellany and is a Latinate form of the Greek platupous ‘flat-footed’ formed from platus and pous ‘foot’, describing the shape of its large, webbed feet. See also plain