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platter(dictionary)
platter(dictionary)
Creep on a Platter(recipes)
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Jackson's sign (medicine) and platter (iou)


Jackson's sign (medicine)


Jackson's sign
<clinical sign> During quiet respiration the movement of the paralysed side of the chest may be greater than that of the opposite side, while in forced respiration the paralysed side moves less than the Other.

Origin: J. H. Jackson


platter (iou)



platter noun. ME.
[Anglo-Norman plater, from plat dish, use as noun of Old & mod. French plat: see PLAT adjective, -ER2.]
A large flat dish or plate, esp. for Food; the Food placed on a platter, a platterful; N. Amer. a main course of a meal, served on a platter. ME.
on a platter, on a silver platter fig. = on a plate s.v. PLATE noun 25.
A gramophone record. slang. M20.
The metal disc of a turntable unit, on which the record is placed for playing. L20.
Computing. A rigid metal disk coated, usually on both sides, with magnetic material on which information is stored inside a disk file. L20.
Comb.: platter-face arch. a broad, round, flat face; platter-faced adjective (arch.) having a broad, round, flat face.
platterful noun as much or as many as will fill a platter E17.