Crossword-Solution: PLATEN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Platen | n. | The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. |
| Platen | n. | Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. |
| Platen | n. | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PLATEN | anagram | APLENT, PLANET, PLANTE |
We have 20 clues for the answer “PLATEN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Press part | 1 answer |
| roller of a typewriter, against which the paper is held | 1 answer |
| part Typewriter feature | 1 answer |
| Writer's roller | 1 answer |
| Typewriter section. | 1 answer |
| Typewriter roller | 1 answer |
| Roller on a typewriter | 1 answer |
| Roller for the Underwood | 1 answer |
| Printer roller | 1 answer |
| Press cylinder. | 1 answer |
| Press component | 1 answer |
| Part of a typewriter | 1 answer |
| Flat surface in a typewriter that supports paper | 1 answer |
| Cylindrical roller in a typewriter against which paper is held | 1 answer |
| Typewriter component | 2 answers |
| Printing-press part | 2 answers |
| Part of a printing press | 3 answers |
| PRINTING press part | 5 answers |
| Typewriter part | 13 answers |
| ROLLER | 23 answers |
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Sentences with PLATEN (5)
Another significant feature, because this is a preservation application, is the placing of the pages that fall apart one for one on the platen.
You will see from the cut in the catalogue that the platen roller is easily removed without a long mechanical operation.
Little Willie's always ready to say his piece.” He poured it forth with glee--the improved mechanical appliances, the cuts in the catalogue, the platen roller, the ribbon switch, the twenty-six yards of red or blue typing, the fifty per cent.
The arrangement was somewhat similar to that known as the platen machine; the printing being produced by two flat plates, as in the common hand-press.
Although the platen machine of Koenig's has since been taken up a new, and perfected, it was not considered by him sufficiently simple in its arrangements as to be adapted for common use; and he had scarcely completed it, when he was already revolving in his mind a plan of a second machine on a new principle, with the object of ensuring greater speed, economy, and simplicity.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 47 times in crossword archives (1955–2020).