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Platter vs Helping - What's the difference?

platter | helping |

As nouns the difference between platter and helping

is that platter is a tray for serving foods or platter can be one who plats/plaits or braids while helping is (countable) a portion or serving, especially of food that one takes for oneself, or to which one helps oneself;.

As a verb helping is

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platter

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tray for serving foods.
  • * 1765 , Oliver Goldsmith,
    • While his lov'd partner boastful of her hoard,
    Displays the cleanly platter on the board;
  • The part of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played, commonly made of aluminum, but sometimes of high-impact plastic.
    • See also
    * on a silver platter * silver platter

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who plats/plaits or braids.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    helping

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) A portion or serving, especially of food that one takes for oneself, or to which one helps oneself;
    • She eagerly took a second helping of ice cream.
  • (figurative, countable) An amount or quantity
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 19 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Ukraine , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Wayne Rooney marked his England return with the goal that secured a place in Euro 2012's last eight - but it was a rough passage eased by helpings of good fortune and controversy against Ukraine.}}

    Related terms

    * help oneself

    Verb

    (head)