different between platter vs slipmat

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

Etymology

slip +? mat

Noun

slipmat (plural slipmats)

1. A circular piece of slippery material used by turntable disk jockeys instead of the traditional rubber mat, allowing a record to be manipulated while the platter continues to rotate underneath.

See also

• slip-cueing

Anagrams

• palmist