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Platform   /plˈætfˌɔrm/   Listen
noun
Platform  n.  
1.
A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively. (Obs.)
2.
A place laid out after a model. (Obs.) "lf the platform just reflects the order."
3.
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.
4.
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. "The platform of Geneva."
5.
(Naut.) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop.
Platform car, a railway car without permanent raised sides or covering.
Platform scale, a weighing machine, with a flat platform on which objects are weighed.


verb
Platform  v. t.  
1.
To place on a platform. (R.)
2.
To form a plan of; to model; to lay out. (Obs.) "Church discipline is platformed in the Bible."





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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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