sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
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Platter \Plat"ter\, n. [From {Plat} to braid.] One who plats or braids.
Platter \Plat"ter\, n. [Probably fr. OF. platel, F. plateau. See {Plateau}.] A large plate or shallow dish on which meat or other food is brought to the table.
The attendants . . . speedly brought in several large, smoking platters, filled with huge pieces of beef. --Sir W. Scott.
A chamberlain dressed in white followed the bier carrying a platter with a pair of white shoes that tradition says the deceased monarch will wear to heaven.
Youth and spring go together like liver and onions, but at the Masters, golf's most vernal event, youth rarely is served, except on a platter.
President Bush, spending the holidays at Camp David, Md., faces a full platter of unfinished business when he returns to Washington next week.
She received a silver platter in honor of her achievements in the 1,168-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
A platter of shrimp from a seafood restaurant sat on a stretcher in the hallway of one ward at Brooke.
Bookshelf disks contain only text material, but eventually the optical disks will contain text, video, photos and sound on the same platter.
Before any platter is served, he inspects it.
It doesn't give it to them on a silver platter." The rationale for allowing unindicted criminal allegations is that a judge should consider negative information at sentencing as well as positive information, such as letters from friends.
Horgan (Brian Dennehy) loses the election and serves up Rusty _ on a platter once he discovers Rusty's relationship to Caroline _ to his former foe.
The Illinois Democrat said Republican opposition to the provision "hands us the issue on a silver platter."
Shinji Ishii grins as he chugs beer and digs into a platter of peppery preserved fish.
The most memorable meal I had was lunch on the last day of our trip to Courmayeur: chateaubriand for two sitting outside in the sun on the slopes, the white-hatted chef bringing it out on a silver platter.
New York City is a savage but addicting assault on all the senses, not unlike a blazing platter of kung pao chicken," he states.
Grammy-winning singer Anita Baker has bought the mansion that for 75 years housed Little Harry's Restaurant, but she plans to use the building to turn out a different sort of platter.
Digital said information can be written on the platter once but can't be erased, making it useful for archival purposes.