Sekirov Dictionary

platform

UK /ˈplætfɔːm/US /ˈplætfɔɹm/

noun 15
verb 7
forms 3

noun15

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the part of a station next to the tracks, raised so people can step straight onto a train that stops there
- People on the platforms / Waiting for the trains / I can hear their hearts a-beatin’ / Like pendulums swinging on chains — 1997
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A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
- Always, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, as in private conversation, there is an absolute simplicity about the man and his words; a simplicity, an earnestness, a complete honesty. — 1915
A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.
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A specific stopping place on one of multiple tracks at a station, numbered or otherwise named.
- “Well, there you are, boy. Platform nine — platform ten. Your platform should be somewhere in the middle, but they don’t seem to have built it yet, do they?” — 1997
A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
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A particular operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software; a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used for running other software.
- That program runs on the X Window System platform.
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(Internet) A software system used to provide online services to clients, such as social media, e-commerce, or cloud computing.
- In fact, wealth and power are shifting to those who control the platforms on which all of us create, consume, and connect. — 2014
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(figurative) A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion.
- This new talk show will give a platform to everyday men and women.
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(figurative) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
- The Communist Party and its candidates stand on the following platform, which expresses the immediate interests of the majority of the population of our country. — 1936
(figurative) Something that allows an enterprise to advance.
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[in the plural] Ellipsis of platform shoe (“a kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles”).
- Now open the album cover! How fabulous! The four of them [the Pointer Sisters] in platforms of death, tacky gowns, and "reflections of." — 1973
Ellipsis of car platform (“a set of components shared by several vehicle models”).
A flat expanse of rock, often the result of wave erosion.
A sidewalk.
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(no longer used) A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.
- His destruction intended by queene Quendred, hir platforme of the practise to kill him. — 1577

verb7

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To place on, or as if on, a platform.
- And this dog was satisfied / If a pale thin hand would glide / Down his dewlaps sloping / Which he pushed his nose within, / After—platforming his chin / On the palm left open. — 1844
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To publish or make visible; to provide a platform for (a topic etc.).
- If Buckley were still alive today, could a university get away with platforming him in a debate? — 2020
To place a train alongside a station platform.
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To furnish with or shape into a platform
- […] upon a smiling knoll platformed by Nature […] — 1885
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To include in a political platform
- Among them I scarcely can plot out one truth / Plain enough to be platformed by some voting sleuth / And paraded before the precinct polling-booth. — 1955
To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm.
(no longer used) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.

forms

platformed · platforming · platforms

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