platen
(noun) the roller on a typewriter against which the keys strike
platen
(noun) the flat plate of a printing press that presses the paper against the type
platen
(noun) work table of a machine tool
Source: WordNet® 3.1
platen (plural platens)
(printing) 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.
• Plante, pental, planet
Source: Wiktionary
Plat"en, n. Etym: [F. platine, fr. plat flat. See Plate, and cf. Platin.] (Mach.) (a) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. (b) Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. (c) 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 May 2025
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
