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Platter

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A tray for serving foods.

    "While his lov'd partner boastful of her hoard, Displays the cleanly platter on the board;"

  2. 2
    One who plats/plaits or braids.
  3. 3
    sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove wordnet
  4. 4
    A main dish and side dishes served together on one plate.
  5. 5
    a large shallow dish used for serving food wordnet
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  1. 6
    The hard surface of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played.
  2. 7
    A vinyl record.

    "Artists are quick to blame the record company for failing to promote their follow-up platter."

  3. 8
    One of possibly many disks on which data is stored in a mechanical hard drive.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English plater, from Anglo-Norman plater, dissimilatory variant of platel, from Old French plate (“metal plate”) (see plate). Doublet of plateau.

Etymology 2

From plat + -er.

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