plater
See also: Plater
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun edit
plater (plural platers)
- Someone who plates metal.
- Someone who installs sheet metal and armour plating, particularly on trains, ships, tanks, and similar items.
- A machine for calendering paper.
- (biology) A device for depositing cells on a plate.
- (horse-racing) A horse that runs chiefly in selling plates; hence, an inferior racehorse.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
someone who installs sheet metal
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Anagrams edit
Basque edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
plater inan
Declension edit
Declension of plater (inanimate, ending in tap -r)
indefinite | singular | plural | |
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absolutive | plater | platera | platerak |
ergative | platerek | platerak | platerek |
dative | plateri | platerari | platerei |
genitive | plateren | plateraren | plateren |
comitative | platerekin | platerarekin | platerekin |
causative | platerengatik | platerarengatik | platerengatik |
benefactive | platerentzat | platerarentzat | platerentzat |
instrumental | platerez | plateraz | platerez |
inessive | plateretan | platerean | plateretan |
locative | plateretako | platereko | plateretako |
allative | plateretara | platerera | plateretara |
terminative | plateretaraino | platereraino | plateretaraino |
directive | plateretarantz | platererantz | plateretarantz |
destinative | plateretarako | platererako | plateretarako |
ablative | plateretatik | plateretik | plateretatik |
partitive | platerik | — | — |
prolative | platertzat | — | — |
Further reading edit
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman plater, dissimilatory variant of platel; equivalent to plate + -el.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
plater (plural platers)
Descendants edit
- English: platter
- Scots: plaeter
- Yola: plathearès, platheares (plural)
References edit
- “plater, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
plater m or f
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
plater f
Old French edit
Noun edit
plater oblique singular, m (oblique plural platers, nominative singular platers, nominative plural plater)
- platter (serving plate)
Descendants edit
- → English: platter
References edit
- plater on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub