Platter

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Platter \Plat"ter\, n. [From {Plat} to braid.]
     One who plats or braids.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Platter \Plat"ter\, n. [Probably fr. OF. platel, F. plateau. See
     {Plateau}.]
     A large plate or shallow dish on which meat or other food is
     brought to the table.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The attendants . . . speedly brought in several large,
           smoking platters, filled with huge pieces of beef.
                                                    --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  platter
       n 1: a large shallow dish used for serving food
       2: sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous
          grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating
          while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves [syn: {phonograph
          record}, {phonograph recording}, {record}, {disk}, {disc}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "platter":
     bulletin board, card, catalog card, disc, dish, file, filing card,
     film, index card, library catalog, magnetic tape, microcard,
     microdot, microfiche, microfilm, motion-picture film,
     phonograph record, plate, salver, scoreboard, scorecard,
     scoresheet, server, slip, tape, ticker tape, tray, videotape