(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.
Tray
Definition:
(v. t.) To betray; to deceive.
(n.) A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.
(n.) A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried; a waiter; a salver.
(n.) A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a chest, trunk, box, etc., as a removable receptacle for small or light articles.
Example Sentences:
(1) A hypothesis that the unexpected similarity of infection in the two strains was related to differences in rates of contact with the peat trays was not supported by preliminary data on mouse behaviour that revealed equal frequency of contact with peat trays between strains.
(2) The stainless steel 316 mesh tray with cancellous bone offers a method of mandibular reconstruction which theoretically is appealing from the viewpoint of basic osseous healing.
(3) Each experiment was designed as a 2 x 2 x 3 factorial with normal birds and acclimatization birds fitted with harnesses or housed over collection trays and given one of three dietary treatments.
(4) With the 40-sample capacity of the sample tray and the last sample stop capability, the automated system produces, for example, 40 20-min chromatograms in approximately 13 hr of unattended operation.
(5) Place on a large baking tray and fold over the edges to give a 1cm pastry border.
(6) These kinds of impressions and trays did not influence the accuracy of impressions.
(7) Only after a screening tray demonstration of cinnamic aldehyde allergy could a relevant history be taken from these patients.
(8) The topographies of key-pressing and magazine behavior differed; the food tray was not illuminated.
(9) The perforated trays (B and D) reproduce more accurately the distances along the length and the width of the arch than the nonperforated trays (A and C).
(10) Waste eluates are collected and drained to the sink by a Teflon tray positioned between the columns and counting tubes, also held by the turntable.
(11) Haemagglutination Test (static settling test in plastic microtiter trays) was used and several species of red blood cells were employed.
(12) If the eye shielding block cannot be placed at the optimal shielding point, a simple coin placed on the eye lid surface will also reduce the lens dose substantially when a regular eye shielding block is placed on the blocking tray (Lin's coin effect).
(13) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
(14) Of the 27 patients transplanted at these 3 centers with kidneys received on the basis of ROP tray results, none experienced hyperacute or early irreversible rejection and actual graft survival at 6-48 months is 74%.
(15) The always occurring contamination of the impression tray rules out a complete stopping of infection between the patient and the laboratory staff.
(16) We present a case in which the failure could be expected because of improper design of the tibial tray.
(17) Place on a tray lined with parchment and bake for 10–12 minutes, then drizzle with syrup.
(18) While the tray lists do not replace formal procedure manuals, they are helpful adjuncts for personnel who prepare the surgical trays.
(19) These included an investigation of egg handling techniques from nest box to hatcher; the adoption by the hatchery of plastic setter trays; an improvement to incubator environment; an improvement in the overall hatchery hygiene programme and the introduction of a regular monitoring programme based on the examination of hatchery fluff.
(20) Using this method, unknown shoe allergens can be isolated, identified, and added to the shoe test tray of potential allergens.