PLATTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does platter mean? 

• PLATTER (noun)
  The noun PLATTER has 2 senses:

1. a large shallow dish used for serving food

2. sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

  Familiarity information: PLATTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLATTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large shallow dish used for serving food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("platter" is a kind of...):

flatware (tableware that is relatively flat and fashioned as a single piece)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

disc; disk; phonograph record; phonograph recording; platter; record

Hypernyms ("platter" is a kind of...):

audio; audio recording; sound recording (a recording of acoustic signals)

Meronyms (parts of "platter"):

acetate disk; phonograph recording disk (a disk coated with cellulose acetate)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "platter"):

L-P; LP (a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at 33.3 rpm)

78; seventy-eight (a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute)

 Context examples 

But this is the letter which I am to take; and since the platter is clean it is time that we trussed up and were afoot.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Before them was a great stretch of country having a floor as smooth and shining and white as the bottom of a big platter.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Then from the table he took a platter heaped with small pieces of charred bone.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the meat on the platter he saw the shining sun and traced its energy back through all its transformations to its source a hundred million miles away, or traced its energy ahead to the moving muscles in his arms that enabled him to cut the meat, and to the brain wherewith he willed the muscles to move to cut the meat, until, with inward gaze, he saw the same sun shining in his brain.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Leaning a little back on my bench, I could see the looks and grimaces with which they commented on this manoeuvre: it was a pity Mr. Brocklehurst could not see them too; he would perhaps have felt that, whatever he might do with the outside of the cup and platter, the inside was further beyond his interference than he imagined.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Whilst he was speaking the landlady came in again, bearing a broad platter, upon which stood all the beakers and flagons charged to the brim with the brown ale or the ruby wine.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A gilt harp, blotched with many stains and with two of its strings missing, was tucked under one of his arms, while with the other he scooped greedily at his platter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A long, straggling troop bore spades and mattocks while the two rearmost of all staggered along under a huge basket o' fresh-caught carp, for the morrow was Friday, and there were fifty platters to be filled and as many sturdy trenchermen behind them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)