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発音

• 韻: -ætə(ɹ)

語源 1

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

名詞

platter (plural platters)

1. A tray for serving foods.
   • 1765, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or, A Prospect of Society:

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

2. A main dish and side dishes served together on one plate.
3. The hard surface of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played.
4. A vinyl record.
   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page vii:

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

5. (computing) One of possibly many disks on which data is stored in a mechanical hard drive.

派生語

参考

• platter lift
• on a silver platter
• silver platter

語源 2

From plat +‎ -er.

名詞

platter (plural platters)

1. One who plats/plaits or braids.

   Synonyms: plaiter, braider

参照

• “platter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• partlet, prattle