different between platter vs plotter

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æt?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English plater, from Anglo-Norman plater, Old French plater, from Old French plate (“metal plate”). See plate.

Noun

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

Translations

See also

• platter lift
• on a silver platter
• silver platter

Etymology 2

plat +? -er

Noun

platter (plural platters)

1. One who plats/plaits or braids.

Anagrams

• partlet, prattle

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

platter

1. inflection of platt:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Luxembourgish

Adjective

platter

1. feminine dative of platt

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Etymology 1

plot +? -er

Noun

plotter (plural plotters)

1. A person who plots.
2. (computing) An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens.
3. (navigation) An instrument used to mark or find the position of a vessel on a chart.

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

plotter (third-person singular simple present plotters, present participle plottering, simple past and past participle plottered)

1. Alternative form of plouter

Anagrams

• pelt rot, portlet

French

Verb

plotter

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of peloter

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

plotter

1. present of plotte