(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.
Serving
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Serve
() a. & n. from Serve.
Example Sentences:
(1) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(2) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(3) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
(4) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(5) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(6) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
(7) Abbott also unveiled his new ministry, which confirmed only one woman would serve in the first Abbott cabinet.
(8) Patients served as their individual control based on observations of at least 1 year before the study.
(9) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(10) Female littermates injected with 0.15 M NaCl served as controls.
(11) One-half of the specimens were treated with citric acid, pH 1, for 3 minutes, while the remainder served as untreated control specimens.
(12) The functions of O-GlcNAc remain largely unknown, but it may be important in blocking phosphorylation sites, it may be required for the assembly of specific multiprotein complexes, it might serve as a nuclear transport signal, or it may be directly involved in the active transport of macromolecules across nuclear pores.
(13) It has 200 volunteers each week to serve 38,000 individuals.
(14) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
(15) We suggest that neuronal PACAP may serve to modulate motor activity and secretion in the lower esophageal sphincter region.
(16) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(17) Eight vagotomy-gastrectomy dogs were studied; 4 had a jejunal fistula, and 4 other dogs without a fistula served as controls.
(18) It is suggested the participation of glycogen (starch) in the self-oscillatory mechanism of the futile cycle formed by the phosphofructokinase and fructose bisphosphatase reactions may give rise to oscillations with the period of 10(3)-10(4) min, which may serve as the basis for the cell clock.
(19) Variables from the medical history, physical examination, laboratory tests, and radiographs were used to develop different sets of criteria to serve different investigative purposes.
(20) This system may serve as a model to explain the mechanisms by which cells accumulate in inflamed joints.