Platen

What do we mean by platen?

The roller in a typewriter that serves as the backing for the paper against which the type bars strike. noun

The roller in a printer against which the print head strikes. noun

A flat plate or rolling cylinder in a printing press that positions the paper and holds it against the inked type. noun

The glass surface of a flatbed scanner. noun

In printing, the flat part of a press which comes down upon the form, and by which the impression is made noun

The feed-roll of a typewriter against which the paper rests while receiving an impression. noun

The table of a machine-tool to which the piece to be cut is fastened. noun

An alloy used in making buttons, composed of eight parts of copper and five parts of zinc. noun

The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. noun

Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. noun

The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called table. noun

The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. noun

The part of a typewriter or printer on which the paper rests to receive an impression. noun

The movable table of a planer or other machine tool, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool. noun

The flat glass surface of a scanner or photocopier on which operators place items to be scanned. noun

The roller on a typewriter against which the keys strike noun

Work table of a machine tool noun

The flat plate of a printing press that presses the paper against the type noun

The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.

The part of a typewriter or printer on which the paper rests to receive an impression.

The movable table of a planer or other machine tool, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool.

The flat glass surface of a scanner or photocopier on which operators place items to be scanned.

Words that are spelled similarly to platen:
platen, plate, paten, plates, plated, laten, plater, platon, platan, platten, platin, plauen, slaten, platea, platel, flaten, praten, platn, plagen, planen.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word platen:
refrigerator, typewriter, typing, printing, feeder, pomerania, printer, carriage, cylinder, machines, stockholm, von, carl, flat, print, press, swedish, mechanism, axis, departed, plate, paper, linear, der, canal, heat, machine, pressure, onto, sweden, glass, ordered, image, dutch, method, refer, german.

Words that rhyme with platen:
latin, baton, batten, satin, flatten, gratin, craton, patten, manhattan, matin, fatten, batton, paton, ratten, patton, patin, laton, staten, caton, gratton, platten, stratton, platin, gatton, hattan, lattin, new latin, catton, vulgar latin, late latin, bratton, hatten, hatton, slatton, grattan, biblical latin, medieval latin, low latin, slaton, flaten, staton, matton, classical latin, patane, slatten, statton, bratten, chattin, pattin, battin, gatten, acrobat in, aristocrat in, at in, atta in, autocrat in, bat in, begat in, bhatt in, blatt in, bobcat in, brat in, braton, brattin, bundesrat in, bureaucrat in, butterfat in, cat in, catain, catt in, caveat in, chat in, chitchat in, darmstadt in, dat in, datta in, democrat in, diplomat in, doormat in, fat in, flat in, flat tin, format in, gat in, gatt in, gnat in, gujarat in, habitat in, hat in, hat ton, hatta in, hatte in, kat in, latah in, laundromat in, mat in, matt in, matte in, mchatton, muskrat in.

Adjectives that are often used to describe platen:
upper, lower, top, movable, stationary, bottom, flat, fixed, heated, rigid, hot, cylindrical, and, multi, special, transparent, german, heavy, bed, curved, wicked, hard, wooden, countess, rotating, circular, becker, hand, porous, madame, two, horizontal, moveable, count, front, double, rotary, rear, revolving, three, hinged, operated, colored, loaded, vertical, polished, disused, solid, machine, rectangular, cooled, coloured, inflatable, notorious, bare, frictionless, pinfeed, impatient, arab, table, loose, intermediate, conical, immoral, plastic, inch, stainless, smooth.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective platen:
hallermund, munters, press, hallermunde, hallermiinde.

Consonant match to platen:
platoon, pluton, platon, platan, platten, platin, plait in, plata in, plate in, plate n, platt in, platt on, platte in, platte on, play ten, pleat in, pleat on, plight in, plot in, plot on, plot turn.

Words that sound like platen:
platen, platin, platon, platten, pluton, platan, platting, platoon, patton, plantain, patten, paton, paten, platn, patan, platine, blyton, bluten, plotting, plating, patin, pleating, plantin, plaiting, pattin, plighting, platinum, plateau, peyton, payton, plasm, playtime, poten, plata, play time, piton, peloton, plosion, plataea, padden, platea, potten, pluta, plateaux, played on, putten, play down, blatting, plutons, pitten, planen, platel, played down, playdown, pleon, baton, flatten, batten, batton, blanton, bladen, flaten, slaton, blurton, blaydon, slatten, blatta, bluetongue, slatton, pleading, putin, planting, patting, plodding, play in, potin, put in, plotkin, plashing, latin, parton, bleating, bloating, palatine, blotting, parten, paden, battin, batin, paschen, pashtun, laton, panton, blighting, latten, bloting, padam, p town, bleddyn, partan.