plater

From plate +‎ -er.

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

plater (plural platers)

1. Someone who plates metal.
2. Someone who installs sheet metal and armour plating, particularly on trains, ships, tanks, and similar items.
3. A machine for calendering paper.
4. (biology) A device for depositing cells on a plate.
5. (horse-racing) A horse that runs chiefly in selling plates; hence, an inferior racehorse.

• Alpert, palter, replat

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• IPA^(key): /plater/ [pla.t̪er]
• Rhymes: -ater, -er
• Hyphenation: pla‧ter

plater inan

1. plate
2. dish

• “plater”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “plater”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• platere, platir, platyr, platter

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman plater, dissimilatory variant of platel; equivalent to plate +‎ -el.

• IPA^(key): /plaˈtɛːr/, /ˈplatər/

plater (plural platers)

1. platter

• English: platter
• Scots: plaeter
• Yola: plathearès, platheares (plural)

• “plater, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

plater m or f

1. indefinite plural of plate

plater f

1. indefinite plural of plate

plater oblique singular, m (oblique plural platers, nominative singular platers, nominative plural plater)

1. platter (serving plate)

• → English: platter

• plater on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Borrowed from Middle Low German plattêr.

plater m ?

1. dish

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  Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Polański, Kazimierz (1976) “plater”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 4 (perĕt – ŕotťǝ), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 527
• Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “plater”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 111
• Olesch, Reinhold (1971) “Plattêr”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 2: P – S, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 779