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platte

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for platte.

Editorial note

Everything west of the Mississippi-Missouri and south of the Columbia and Platte rivers is at or beyond long term sustainable water consumption.

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Quick take

A surname from German.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of platte gathered in one view.

noun

A surname from German.

noun

Obsolete form of plate. [A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for platte.

noun

A surname from German.

noun

Obsolete form of plate. [A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.]

Example sentences

1

Everything west of the Mississippi-Missouri and south of the Columbia and Platte rivers is at or beyond long term sustainable water consumption.

2

The Colorado snow pack ends up in the Rio Grande, and Platte as well.

3

On I-70 on the other side of the Platte one could always smell the stockyards and I suppose slaughterhouses.

4

It's the Platte River which provides convenient access to water while traveling.

5

The stretch between North Platte and O'Fallons, NE is the busiest main freight line in the US, seeing about 120-140 UP trains a day.

6

But that's probably not the case in North Platte Nebraska.

7

Along I-70 in Denver about a mile or so west of the South Platte one could often smell a Keebler Cookies factory.

8

The Park Service no longer dredges the Platte River.

9

The South Platte trail has some really sketchy areas, including an underpass where a mugger was pulling a clothesline to knock people off their bikes and rob them.

10

However, the poet Piet Hein did: Stejler man foran et vanskelig valg og vil ha det afgjord prompte, er det et såre fornuftigt princip at platte og krone om det.

11

> The Park Service no longer dredges the Platte River.

12

I have a bunch of the same style on 17th by Sloan's lake, so I feel decently protected from that area to the stadium and onto the south platte river trail.

Quote examples

1

Vienna has this ("Platte") and build a new district and recreational erea besides the Danube on top of it.

2

Nay, that would be "Plattenbau", meaning built(ge(bau)t) out of prefabbed concrete slabs(platte) and steel bars.

3

There was one in MacOS 7 or 8 that was called "platte pinda's" in Dutch meaning "flat(tened) peanuts)".

4

To my understandings it's not a command platte, but has a similar workflow of "Bring up an input with shortcut → Type → Sumbit".

Proper noun examples

1

But the problem is that 90 miles east of North Platte, and 20 miles west of North Platte, the lines split, and the traffic density goes down.

2

There are some places, like the Union Pacific around North Platte, where you'd think that electrification would be a natural.

3

So in the examples above, Mail → Post, URL → Verbindung, CD-ROM → Platte, Jeans → Hose, etc.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use platte in a sentence?

Everything west of the Mississippi-Missouri and south of the Columbia and Platte rivers is at or beyond long term sustainable water consumption.

What does platte mean?

A surname from German.

What part of speech is platte?

platte is commonly used as noun.