Platter vs Splatter - What's the difference?
platter | splatter |
A tray for serving foods.
* 1765 , Oliver Goldsmith,
The part of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played, commonly made of aluminum, but sometimes of high-impact plastic.
An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.
(attributive) A genre of gory horror.
To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.
To cause (something) to splatter.
To spatter (something or somebody).
* 2012 , Kimberly J. Heide, Doors of Promise (page 100)
As nouns the difference between platter and splatter
is that platter is a tray for serving foods while splatter is an uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.As a verb splatter is
to splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.platter
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- While his lov'd partner boastful of her hoard,
- Displays the cleanly platter on the board;
See also
* on a silver platter * silver platterEtymology 2
Anagrams
* * ----splatter
English
(wikipedia splatter)Noun
(en noun)- He had a hard time cleaning up the paint splatters on the carpet.
- splatter''' film; '''splatter movie
Verb
- The drink splattered all over me, the table, and the floor when I knocked it over.
- He splattered paint onto the wall.
- Her wet hands splattered him with suds.