platter
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plat·ter
(plăt'ər) 
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n.
- A large shallow dish or plate, used especially for serving food.
- A meal or course served on a platter.
- Slang. A phonograph record.
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.]
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platter
One 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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noun
noun, mainly US
1:pl. = platters of meat noun . (1945 —) .
2: A gramophone record. Cf. platenoun 2. (1926 —) .
T. Wells I went into Fink Roth's pad and found treasures. Good old platters and stamps. I sold them. Got a good price for the records. The stamps were only so-so (1967).
noun, mainly US
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2: A gramophone record. Cf. plate
T. Wells I went into Fink Roth's pad and found treasures. Good old platters and stamps. I sold them. Got a good price for the records. The stamps were only so-so (1967).
| plates of meat, plate, plastered | |
| platters of meat, play, pleb |
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categories related to 'platter'
- Dishes and Serving Containers - platter: large, flat serving dish, usu. with lip: charger, chop, fish, nappy, well-and-tree
- Performance, Airplay, and the Recording Industry - platter: Slang. a phonograph record
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Platter may refer to:
- Platter (album), by Jock Cheese
- Platter (dinner), a meal of several components served together on a platter or in a basket
- Platter (dishware), large dish used for serving food
- Platter (horse), American Champion racehorse
- Platter, Oklahoma, USA
- Hard disk platter, part of a computer hard drive
Platter is the surname of:
- Bruno Platter (1944–), Grand master of the Teutonic Order
- Luanne Platter, fictional character in the animated series King of the Hill
- Thomas Platter (1499–1582), humanist scholar and writer
- Thomas Platter the Younger (c.1574 – 1628), Swiss-born physician, traveller and diarist
See also
- Plater (surname)
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Platter
Dansk (Danish)
n. - platte, trætallerken, flad hat
Nederlands (Dutch)
schotel, harde schijf (computer), draaitafel van platenspeler, schijf (grammofoonplaat)
Français (French)
n. - plat de service, plat en bois, assiette (de charcuterie, etc), (US, Audio) plateau, (US, Audio) disque
Deutsch (German)
n. - Platte, Teller
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πιατέλα, πινάκιο, πλατό του πικάπ
Português (Portuguese)
n. - travessa (f)
Русский (Russian)
блюдо, граммофонная пластинка
Español (Spanish)
n. - plato, fuente, disco
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - uppläggningsfat, (grammofon)platta
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
大浅盘
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 大淺盤
한국어 (Korean)
n. - (타원형의 얇은) 큰 접시, [녹]음반
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) طبق كبير, أسطوانه فونوغرافيه
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - צלחת, פנכה, תקליט, תקליט מגנטי
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