(n.) A large plate or shallow dish on which meat or other food is brought to the table.
Example Sentences:
(1) Excess amounts of a mixed food diet were provided on platters to the subjects.
(2) A platter method of food presentation encouraged ad libitum ingestion.
(3) Pour on to a large platter or individual plates, spoon the cauliflower and chickpeas on top, followed by the egg, tomatoes and chilli sauce.
(4) To investigate the effects of the long-acting opiate antagonist naltrexone on spontaneous human eating behavior, eight moderately obese male paid volunteers were housed in a hospital metabolic unit for 28 days and offered palatable foods ad lib by a platter service method.
(5) Once you're settled in the simple, pretty blue-and-white restaurant, start with a generous half-portion of Greek salad (R$22, £5.80), or the starter platter ( entrada completa , £9), with soft cheese, pickles, aubergine, hummus, potato salad and tender chunks of octopus.
(6) A disappointing draw at home to West Brom put the Premier League trophy on a silver platter for Leicester.
(7) And the first-floor restaurant is a foodie’s dream, with a great range of hot foods, cold platters and homemade cakes.
(8) While their double-shelled relations (clams, mussels, oysters, scallops, etc) specialise in filtering water to remove food particles, and their single-shelled little cousins (periwinkles, whelks, limpets, conches) specialise in, well, adorning a seafood platter, cephalopods (octopus, cuttlefish and squid) specialise in a seriously impressive form of self-defence.
(9) The Washington Post referred to it as an “incoherent pu pu platter ”.
(10) Imagine them collectively giving you policy advice over a tea urn and a platter of sandwiches.
(11) Review of publications on semen quality in men without a history of infertility selected by means of Cumulated Index Medicus and Current List (1930-1965) and MEDLINE Silver Platter database (1966-August 1991).
(12) Choosing instead to roll the ball across the edge of the six-yard box, he provided it on a platter for Crespo, whose job was an easy one.
(13) Cooked beetroot, cut into matchsticks Cabbage, white or red, finely shredded Preserved lemon segments, pulp removed, rinsed, peeled thinly, cut into matchsticks Red onion, peeled and thinly sliced Hot-smoked trout or salmon fillets, cut into strips For the dressing 1 small pot of sour cream 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 tbsp milk ¼ tsp caster sugar 1 tbsp finely grated lemon zest 1 Arrange your salad ingredients on a large platter or individual plates, leaving the fish until last.
(14) He placed the platter on the table, and as the lid was lifted and set to the side, I was told that, 100 years ago, the taxidermist's grandfather witnessed a bar fight between two sailors.
(15) The menu is short: platters of shellfish, grilled catch of the day, and two or three desserts.
(16) They sit nightly at the tables, flicking selfies at each other on digital currents, air kissing one another's bottle-bronzed cheeks, their Botoxed eyebrows feigning constant surprise, while picking irritably at platters of exquisitely carved Jamon Iberico, or Peking duck with skin like lacquered rosewood, or bits of sashimi cut just so.
(17) Felix Platter, physician and anatomist, had a keen interest in ophthalmology, too.
(18) It was with the appearance of the retired merchant navy man Norman, however, with his lilting Scottish accent and homemade "skateboard" presentation platter (it must be seen to be believed) that an entire nation fell in love.
(19) 4 When leeks are just tender, remove from the pan and arrange on a serving platter, leaving the remaining broth.
(20) But I head for a little restaurant on the seafront, Cape to Cuba , for a platter of seafood with spicy salsa.
Plotter
Definition:
(n.) One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer.
Example Sentences:
(1) A headteacher the dossier claimed the plotters had ousted in fact left 20 years ago.
(2) The output from the computer is a graphical display, using an on-line plotter; thus, the investigator is provided with visual comparison of data sets.
(3) The purpose of this paper is to describe a method for measuring and recording static and dynamic external rotation of the glenohumeral joint using the Cybex II Isokinetic Dynamometer and an MFE model 815 X-Y plotter.
(4) Jeremy Corbyn, meanwhile, appears to have survived his first electoral test and kept the plotters at bay .
(5) Averaging of 50 responses (time base 200-500-1000 msec) was considered; measures were made by registration on X-Y Plotter.
(6) The measuring chain (sensor-amplifier-magnetic data recorder-plotter) has a resonance frequency of 170 Hz and is suitable for the true representation of the tension-time-course.
(7) The advantages of this system are a specialized form of output suited to the analysis of mosaic tissues, disk storage of all data, plotter output for verification, and an inexpensive hardware environment.
(8) The plotters are said to have a list of up to 60 names of people prepared to sign the letter.
(9) A general algorithm for treatment plan isodose line plotting is described which is particularly useful for pen plotters.
(10) Authorities were also looking at two language institutions in Yemen , investigating the possibility that the plotters could have been associated with them.
(11) 2.13pm GMT He calls the idea that we have lost track of terrorist plotters as a result of these disclosures "shrill and unsubstantiated".
(12) Today Luzhkov named Medvedev's press secretary, Natalia Timakova, and a Kremlin ideologist, Vladislav Surkov, as plotters of his downfall.
(13) A full cast analysis program has been developed previously, making use of the three-dimensional Reflex Plotter linked to a computer.
(14) The central blood gas laboratory consists of a blood gas analyzer for PO2, PCO2 and pH, an electronic desktop calculator, a four color X-Y-plotter and two data lines to the cardiac surgery unit and to the intensive care unit.
(15) The terminal equipment is based on a mini-computer and includes a function-key devise for outline input, a large-screen refresh oscilloscope for viewing results and an X-Y plotter for hard-copy.
(16) They point to Erdoğan’s unchallenged control over the armed forces, purged through a series of trials of alleged coup plotters, his control of state media, his manipulation of the judiciary, and his recent sacking of Ahmet Davutoğlu , the moderate AKP prime minister who was critical of the proposed constitutional changes.
(17) All these values are plotted as well as offline data, such as medications, fluids, laboratory results and user comments, on an A3 format anesthetic record using an eight pen flat bed plotter.
(18) Talkback radio was inundated with calls from Giles supporters critical of the plotters for creating instability in the government.
(19) A final-program plots these files on a digital plotter.
(20) By 5pm, details of some of the plotters had been passed to Nick Brown, chief whip, one of Gordon Brown's strongest supporters, who is now planning a counterattack to isolate the group.