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Platform   /plˈætfˌɔrm/   Listen
Platform

noun
1.
A raised horizontal surface.
2.
A document stating the aims and principles of a political party.  Synonyms: political platform, political program, program.  "They won the election even though they offered no positive program"
3.
The combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system.
4.
Any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons.  Synonym: weapons platform.
5.
A woman's shoe with a very high thick sole.  Synonym: chopine.



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"Platform" Quotes from Famous Books



... yours, sir?" said he, pointing to the man in spectacles on the platform. "Never saw him before? I thought so. Sharper, sir, I'll take my oath of it, or something worse. I know the sort; I've exposed hundreds of them. Take my advice, sir, and never see ...
— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville
... run through the warm September landscape: dreamlike the slip of country platform, where, while Lawrence took their tickets, she and Laura walked up and down and fingered the tall hollyhocks flowering upward in quilled rosettes of lemon-yellow and coral red, like paper lanterns lit by a fairy lamplighter on a spiral stair: and most dreamlike ...
— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde
... of them before, and returned him a proud look of offended dignity for his somewhat impertinent stare of undisguised admiration. She went hastily to her brother, who was standing outside, and took hold of his arm. 'Have you got your bag? Let us walk about here on the platform,' said she, a little flurried at the idea of so soon being left alone, and her bravery oozing out rather faster than she liked to acknowledge even to herself. She heard a step following them along ...
— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... Convention of 1848, though its platform was as vague as it could be made, nominated a candidate who was committed to a particular plan with slavery in the Territories. The candidate was Lewis Cass, of Michigan, and his plan was set forth in a letter to one Nicholson, of Nashville, Tennessee, of date ...
— Stephen Arnold Douglas • William Garrott Brown
... a sort of natural platform, where he might lie without much danger of falling to ...
— Jack North's Treasure Hunt - Daring Adventures in South America • Roy Rockwood


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