platter

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]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ætə(r)

Noun

1. A tray for serving foods.

Translations

See also

• on a silver platter
• silver platter

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 (turntable)
• 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

See also

• Plater (surname)

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