Platform
['plætfɔːm] or ['plæt'fɔrm]
Definition
(noun.) a raised horizontal surface; 'the speaker mounted the platform'.
(noun.) any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons.
(noun.) the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system.
(noun.) a document stating the aims and principles of a political party; 'their candidate simply ignored the party platform'; 'they won the election even though they offered no positive program'.
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Definition
(n.) A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively.
(n.) A place laid out after a model.
(n.) Any flat or horizontal surface; especially, one that is raised above some particular level, as a framework of timber or boards horizontally joined so as to form a roof, or a raised floor, or portion of a floor; a landing; a dais; a stage, for speakers, performers, or workmen; a standing place.
(n.) A declaration of the principles upon which a person, a sect, or a party proposes to stand; a declared policy or system; as, the Saybrook platform; a political platform.
(n.) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop.
(v. t.) To place on a platform.
(v. t.) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
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Definition
n. a raised level surface: a part of a floor raised above the rest to form a standing-place for speakers workmen &c.: (mil.) an elevated floor for cannon: a statement of principles to which a body of men declare their adhesion and on which they act: (Shak.) a scheme plan.—v.t. (Milt.) to sketch plan: (Mrs Browning) to support as on a platform.—ns. Plat′form-bridge (Amer.) a movable gangway between the platforms of two railway carriages; Plat′form-car a railway car open all round and without a roof; Plat′form-crane a crane used on a railway platform or one mounted on a movable truck; Plat′form-scale a weighing-machine with a flat surface for holding the thing to be weighed.—The platform the function of public oratory.
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Examples
- In a whisper, he explained to me the apparition of the three figures on the platform of rock. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The Moving Platform. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This arrangement was generally satisfactory, but the resistance-boxes scattered about the platform and foot-rests being in the way, Edison directed that some No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Ere long, some noted singers and musicians dawned upon the platform: as these stars rose, the comet-like professor set. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The porter was on the platform looking for me. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Pablo swung his legs down from the table and walked around it to the big chair of the Mayor on the raised platform behind the long council table. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The train drew up at the platform. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Thrusting Sab Than headlong from the platform, I drew Dejah Thoris to my side. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The platform and the golden throne were broken down, and Rustam lay dead among a heap of dead men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Margaret would not tell any human being of what she had said, and she did not reveal the fatal termination to Leonards' fall from the platform. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- You might tell them at Briarbrae that I hope to be back to-morrow night, cried Phelps, as we began to move from the platform. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He sprang down from the platform and grasped her roughly by the arm, but scarcely had he touched her than I leaped between them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- From the entrance into the lists, a gently sloping passage, ten yards in breadth, led up to the platform on which the tents were pitched. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This much was observed by some one on the platform, who, however, thought no more about the matter, as the blow seemed of slight consequence. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- A few more spectres moving outside on the platform--then the bell--then motion again through the level darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The policeman with his taboo did make moral and social questions insusceptible to treatment in party platforms. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They were built upon platforms on the Caernarvon shore, and the great problem was how to lift them and put them in place, especially the central ones, which were 460 feet in length. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- How often in a political campaign does a candidate suggest that behind the platforms and speeches of his opponents there might be some new and valuable understanding of the country's need? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Again he heard himself called for as Brother Bulstrode in prayer meetings, speaking on religious platforms, preaching in private houses. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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