Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large shallow dish or plate, used especially for serving food.
- noun A meal or course served on a platter.
- noun Slang A phonograph record.
- idiom (on a platter) Without exertion; effortlessly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plate; a large shallow dish for holding eatables; especially, a flat dish in which a fowl, a joint, or the like is placed to be carved.
- noun One who plats, braids, or interweaves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who plats or braids.
- noun A large plate or shallow dish on which meat or other food is brought to the table.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
tray forserving foods. - noun The part of a
turntable on which aGramophone record rests when being played, commonly made of aluminum, but sometimes high impact plastic.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
- noun a large shallow dish used for serving food
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This platter is a bit more crowded than I recommended in my post about plattering heirloom tomatoes.
Steve Poses: On the Table: Farm Stands of New York's Hudson River Valley Steve Poses 2010
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This platter is a bit more crowded than I recommended in my post about plattering heirloom tomatoes.
Steve Poses: On the Table: Farm Stands of New York's Hudson River Valley Steve Poses 2010
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This platter is a bit more crowded than I recommended in my post about plattering heirloom tomatoes.
Steve Poses: On the Table: Farm Stands of New York's Hudson River Valley Steve Poses 2010
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Particularly when there's some righteous ass-kicking going on ... participating vicariously in the bad guys getting their heads handed to them on a platter is a great release.
Reality Check Ahead 2007
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I know Obama had a lot on his platter from the previous regime and I fully realize he is trying to fix some and still stay alive ..
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Their Dionysus platter is my go-to meal when working late.
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One of the more interesting projects on his platter is something referred to as "Selma," in which he will presumably play Alabama Governor George Wallace in a period civil rights story.
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I did not eat tongue, but my mother, my grandmother and my aunts did, and seeing it sitting there on the platter from the Pickle Barrel, contaminating the lovely pastrami and corned beef beside it with its nastiness was enough to make me eat tuna.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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An inexpensive meal prepared carefully and arranged beautifully on the platter is very elegant and hardly distinguishable from something expensive.
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An inexpensive meal prepared carefully and arranged beautifully on the platter is very elegant and hardly distinguishable from something expensive.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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