platform
(plætfɔːʳm )
Word forms: platforms
1. countable noun B2
A platform is a flat, raised structure, usually made of wood, which people stand on when they make speeches or give a performance.
Nick finished what he was saying and jumped down from the platform.
Synonyms: stage, stand, podium, rostrum
2. countable noun B2
A platform is a flat raised structure or area, usually one which something can stand on or land on.
Some of these flood shelters are on raised platforms, which have allowed helicopters to land amid the continuing floods.
They found a spot on a rocky platform where they could pitch their tents.
3. countable noun
A platform is a structure built for people to work and live on when drilling for oil or gas at sea, or when extracting it.
4. countable noun A2
A platform in a railway station is the area beside the rails where you wait for or get off a train.
The train was about to leave and I was not even on the platform.
5. countable noun
The platform of a political party is what they say they will do if they are elected.
...a platform of political and economic reforms. [+ of]
The Socialist Party won a landslide victory on a nationalist platform.
Synonyms: policy, programme, principle, objective(s)
6. countable noun
If someone has a platform, they have an opportunity to tell people what they think or want.
The demonstration provided a platform for a broad cross-section of speakers. [+ for]
7. countable noun
A platform is a particular type of computer hardware or computer operating system. [computing]
Java can run on most computer platforms.
8. singular noun [usually the NOUN]
In a bus, the platform is the area of floor at the front or back where you get on and off. [British]
I stood on the crowded back platform of the seven o'clock bus.
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Collocations:
digital platform online platform perfect platform platform sandals railway platform satellite platform share a platform sleeping platform solid platform stable platform station platform steel platform subway platform trading platform train platform viewing platform wooden platform
More will be added to the digital platform as the program continues to evolve.
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Central to his strategy was a 50 million investment in technology to develop an effective digital platform.
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Yet they are here to stay, like them or not, and, as a digital platform for listening, set to increase.
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Transitioning to this digital platform changed music forever.
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Investment in its technology and digital platform helped 2016 sales reach 60.7m.
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It runs an online platform serving investment clients directly as well as for financial advisers.
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It's an online platform for making and sharing games.
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Egg was once at the forefront of credit card innovation, with its online platform and its ultra-generous introductory deals.
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The business was founded in 2010 as an online platform that links retail investors with people seeking credit.
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The online platform matches companies in need of cash with wealthy individuals and family offices willing to offer advances against future billings.
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I wanted to share what I'd learnt and a blog seemed like the perfect platform.
The Sun (2013)
It's a perfect platform to show the world the beauty of women's cycling.
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Its popularity and image has enabled the sport to become the perfect platform for people wishing to help charities.
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Enter his gold collection; gold sequins, gold beading, gold chiffon, gold silk, gold platform sandals, gold snakeskin bags, gold catwalk.
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Those clunky platform sandals with the three-inch heels just won't go away - and now, they're to be showcased with ankle socks.
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From the coral mega 1 platform sandals to the raffia stacked wedges, we can't wait to slip our tanned toes into this lot.
The Sun
Just add platform sandals and a pop-art pouch.
The Sun
Flattering and on-trend, wear high-waisted, wide-legged nautical trousers with platform sandals for never-ending legs.
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But what was the presidential car doing down here, on an underground railway platform?
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As he recalled, their eyes met on a railway platform.
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But using it certainly feels like a more cuttingedge hobby than standing at the end of a railway platform clutching a notebook and a thermos of beef tea.
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A light gangway was established where the railway platform used to be, allowing access to the platform from the side of the bridge.
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During this time people dismantled heavy machinery, packed and loaded them on the railway platform, marked and accounted for with wiring diagrams.
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Some remote sensing scientists have proposed using the measurement of the radiance coming from vegetation canopies in those bands to characterize plant health status from a satellite platform.
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Using sensitive radiometers, such as those on-board satellite platforms, one can measure carefully the wide array of colors emerging out of the ocean.
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This means that images from two satellite platforms with different orbits can not be compared, and for a given satellite data from the same orbital track must be used.
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Nobody wants to share a platform with them, and nobody wants to invite them on telly.
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Under the fresh proposals leaders from seven parties would share a platform in two of the three debates in the weeks leading up to the election.
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This year they will share a platform.
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Would it dignify the deniers to be permitted to share a platform with genuine historians?
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Today we'll share a platform for the first time to make the same argument.
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The lowered, beamed ceiling was designed with a large storage area above it, reached from the sleeping platform.
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If you're designing a sleeping platform, be sure to incorporate sleek, modern downlighting underneath it to illuminate your new-found living space.
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Although it has little more than 250 sq ft of living space, there's a light, airy feel, thanks to the well-designed sleeping platform, whitewashed timber-effect flooring and stable door.
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Up the open-tread stairs beside the kitchen, at the back of the big room, perches the mezzanine sleeping platform, with mercifully decent head clearance under the roof.
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Instead, she clambers up a ladder onto her sleeping platform - and shimmies down the rungs again each morning.
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This represents a solid platform upon which much can be built.
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This could provide a solid platform on which to build negotiations for cheaper rent.
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He might lack some qualities that other great players have, but he wins all the percentages there are and gives the team a solid platform.
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The ground floor has two guest suites and forms a solid platform for the main section of the house to sit upon.
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They've all been very solid platform games and this one continues the theme, with some worthwhile novel features.
The Sun
I still have tough days and tough times and challenges, but it's given me a stable platform.
The Sun
It said that the development cycle always 'lagged' the investment cycle and that it had a 'stable platform' to push ahead with its large developments.
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They were taken from a hot-air balloon that provided a stable platform for the cumbersome and slow glass-plate camera.
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As we saw this week, the two-wheeled electric device provides a stable platform for a camera.
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Affordable social housing would give them a stable platform from which to build a life, family and career.
The Sun
That might be handy for reading on the station platform this winter.
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She managed to tell the train to close the doors while she was standing on the station platform.
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Not so perfect if you're just standing on a station platform.
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Commuters on a station platform saw the 44-year-old fall onto the track.
The Sun
They have been close friends since that moment on the station platform.
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They step out on the truck's diamond-plate steel platform; she shuts the vertical rear doors, locks them.
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Because all the desks and chairs are listed, we have built a vast steel platform over them.
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The highlight of the design was the two-story star-shaped glass and steel platform.
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In a break from their recent tradition of using glassfibre, he used an aluminium body on a steel platform and tube chassis.
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The truncated tetrahedra were interconnected with lattice steel platforms.
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We've been waiting on this subway platform for twenty minutes.
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Porter has five levels: the street-level entrances, the below-grade commuter platforms, the fare mezzanine, plus two subway platform levels underground.
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The video continues to show the pair spending time together, including dining in restaurants, riding the subway, and dancing on the subway platform.
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The next stage of the renovation was to build a stairway from the bus/streetcar platform to the eastbound subway platform.
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A second elevator provides a connection between the mezzanine and the westbound subway platform.
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Gumtree, another trading platform, usually lists things for free.
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This will provide a digital options trading platform, initially for day traders.
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Orders go down the pipe to an exchange's electronic trading platform.
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The trading platform went down at about 8.30am, shortly after stock and bond markets opened.
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If the scheme goes ahead it will provide banks, fund managers and other institutions with a trading platform quite independent of the various national exchanges.
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Perhaps you're just partial to a branded tote to parade your cultured status along the train platform.
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Take these people out of the woods, put them at the end of a train platform, and you've got train spotters.
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It's not much of a train station; more a train platform, really, surrounded by palm trees and a few turnstiles.
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The train platform was constructed in 2001, and the station building was constructed in 2008 and opened in 2009.
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An entrance and transfer area link the train platform to the bus area and the street.
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A 10million viewing platform was unveiled this week.
The Sun
Often, they'll come so close to the bus, you can stand over the top of them on the mesh-floored viewing platform.
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As with the rest of the route, a big 4x4 will make the best viewing platform.
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Their proposals range from a city farm to a small park with an eccentric claw-shaped viewing platform over the hole dug for the foundations.
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A viewing platform 160ft off the ground will offer 360-degree views.
The Sun
This was deluxe camping, all right - a canvas room on a raised wooden platform, with netting, a king-size bed, a lantern and a hammock.
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They spent six hours setting up the gasheated tub on a wooden platform before lowering it and abseiling down.
The Sun
This spring, further investigations at the shipbuilding site revealed another, more intact wooden platform made of cut timbers set on top of wooden foundations.
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He found a dam and submerged himself, clutching a wooden platform he found to shield himself from the wind.
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In 2005, they discovered a pile of timbers they believed was a wooden platform used for shipbuilding.
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Translations:
Chinese: 平台
Japanese: 演壇
- computer chess
- computer code
- computer communication
- computer console
- computer consultant
- computer crash
- computer database
- computer desk
- computer device
- computer disc
- computer drive
- computer engineer
- computer equipment
- computer expert
- computer file
- computer game
- computer gaming
- computer-generated animation
- computer glitch
- computer hacker
- computer hardware
- computer industry
- computer information
- computerization
- computerize