What's the difference between platter and splatter?

Platter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who plats or braids.
  • (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.

Splatter


Definition:

  • (v. i. & t.) To spatter; to splash.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gucci showed jeans, too, splattered and distressed; at Prada they were tailored with visible white stitching.
  • (2) While my pink, freckled body is blank and pictureless, my father's is an ink-splattered historical document.
  • (3) Decreasing r&d time has the same effect on TCs generated from both noise and tonal stimuli, even when it only measurably increases the acoustic splatter of the latter.
  • (4) In lurid images of blood-splattered dollars fluttering down over warlords in conflict zones, accompanied by a menacing soundtrack worthy of a horror classic, the film seeks to distill in punchy form the central message of the book: that Hillary and Bill Clinton, since leaving the White House famously “dead broke” in 2001, have amassed a vast fortune of more than $200m by blurring the lines between public office, their philanthropic foundation, lucrative speaker fees and friendships with dubious characters around the world.
  • (5) Sit the steamer on the surface of your milk, slightly off centre so the milk starts to flow around it in a circular motion, rather than splattering uncontrollably.
  • (6) 92% of obligate heterozygotes had a mud-splattered appearance of the fundus with hyperpigmented streaks and in 74% this was associated with marked iris translucency.
  • (7) The cartoon shows a menacing looking Netanyahu wielding a blood-splattered trowel, bricking screaming Palestinians into the wall's structure.
  • (8) The very steep stimulus slopes required to produce an offset CAP are likely to generate much more acoustic splatter than the more gradual slopes required to produce an onset CAP, and this may be related to the different shapes of the onset and offset simultaneous MTCs.
  • (9) J Crew and studio chic J Crew pays homage to painters with its splattered trousers.
  • (10) "I remember kissing his head, his face held between two blocks, completely splattered in dry blood.
  • (11) The house where his blood and brains were splattered yesterday.
  • (12) I see a cascade of shit pirouetting from your penthouse office, caking each layer of management, splattering all in between.
  • (13) Clutching Squire-customised Jackson Pollock-style paint-splattered guitars, they launched into Elephant Stone , an instantly infectious collision of melody and house-influenced rhythms delivered in a psychedelic haze.
  • (14) Nor has the RAF (with apologies to the Royal Air Force) featured in the Mail Online's sidebar of shame whereas BRF has already become almost as much of a regular feature there as drool-splattered photos of 14-year-old girls looking "grown up for their years".
  • (15) With an old North Face down jacket, MacPac rucksack and mud-splattered Berghaus boots – the kit that saw him through the mountains of central Afghanistan in midwinter – he looks more ­uppercrust eco-warrior than county Tory.
  • (16) The latter, splattered with hammers and sickles, runs close to the shores of the Saronic Gulf.
  • (17) Freud is pictured in his laceless, paint-splattered boots.
  • (18) Junior doctors are not looking for a last-minute “concession” splattered across the papers.
  • (19) Movie monsters have been steadily slinking back to the B-list depths from whence they came, hence the popularity of CGI splatter such as Sharknado , where we can be sure no real animals were harmed, because it’s clear none were used.
  • (20) The floor is splattered with globules and rivulets of dried paint; you could almost be standing on an enormous Jackson Pollock.