platter
/ˈplætər/
noun
- A large, flat dish used for serving food, especially meat, fish, or appetizers.
- For the party, we ordered a platter of assorted sandwiches.
- She brought out a platter of cheese and crackers for the guests.
- The waiter set a silver platter of grilled salmon on the table.
- A selection or assortment of food served on such a dish.
- The restaurant offers a seafood platter with shrimp, clams, and crab legs.
- The breakfast platter came with eggs, bacon, and toast.
- We shared a fruit platter for dessert.
- A flat, rotating disk in a hard drive or record player that stores data or holds a record.
- He carefully placed the vinyl record on the turntable's platter.
- The hard drive contains several magnetic platters that spin at high speed.
- Data is written to the platter by a tiny read-write head.