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platformn.adj. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French plateforme. Etymology: < Middle French plateforme, platte-forme, platte fourme (French plate-forme , †platte-forme ) arrangement of objects on a level surface (1433–4 as platte fourme , also denoting the objects so arranged), plan (a1525), level surface on which things can stand (1531 or earlier), open walk running along the top of a building (1563 or earlier), fortified level area (surrounded by walls) on which artillery can be mounted (1574 or earlier), flat railway carriage used to transport ore or coal in a mine (1787 or earlier), platform at the end of a tramway carriage (1879) < plate , feminine of plat (adjective) flat, level (see plat adj. and adv.) + forme , fourme form n. The French word was also borrowed into other Romance and Germanic languages; compare Spanish plataforma (1521), Italian piattaforma (1582; earlier as †forma piatta (1546)), Portuguese plataforma (1626), all earliest in sense A. 2a, and also Dutch platform (1598 as †platteforme , earliest in sense A. 12; now obsolete in this sense), German Plattform (18th cent.; earlier as †platte form (1608), †platte forme (1616 or earlier), earliest in sense A. 1b).In 16th–18th cent. frequently written as two words. With the β. forms compare the etymological discussion at plat n.3, and see also plot n. A. n. I. A surface or area on which something may stand, esp. a raised level surface. 1. society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > ambulatory > on top of a building or wall 1531 in H. M. Paton (1957) I. 58 For gestis to the plateforme xxiiii grete gestis for gesting of the body of the new werk [of Holyrood]. 1580–1 in D. Masson (1880) 1st Ser. III. 364 The haill tymmer of the bak platfurme and bartesing. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot ii. 142 A great wall of blackish stones four Foot thick, which supports a large Platform or Terrass. 1690 H. Chamberlain Let. 26 Aug. in T. Hale (1691) 107 Lead which was first laid on about twelve Years since upon two Platforms at my House there. 1704 J. Harris I Platform, in Architecture, is..a kind of Terrass Walk, or even Floor on the Top of the Building; from whence we may take a fair Prospect of the adjacent Gardens or Fields. society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > firing platform for artillery α. 1535 Ld. Lisle Let. 7 May in (P.R.O.: SP 1/92) f. 152 Beauchamp and..towers here Be fynysshed with the plat forme humbly..Beseechyng yor highness that yor pleaβr may be..what pece shalbe laid thereon. 1547 in J. B. Paul (1911) IX. 103 Thir bottis to be platforme to the said artalȝere jc dalis. ?a1560 L. Digges (1571) i. xxx. sig. Iiv Suche as shall haue committed to their charge any platfourme with ordinaunce. 1562 P. Whitehorne Certain Waies Orderyng Souldiers f. 18v, in tr. N. Machiavelli That which shall haue either caualiers, or platformes. 1603 W. Shakespeare i. ii. 251 Fare you well, Vpon the platforme, twixt eleuen and twelue, Ile visit you. 1660 T. Willsford 196 A Mount or Platform is to be raised for battery, on which the great guns are to be mounted. 1704 J. Harris I Platform, in Fortification, is a Place prepared on the Ramparts for the raising of a Battery or Cannon; or it is the whole Piece of Fortification raised in a re-entring Angle. 1777 Rec. New Hampsh. Comm. of Safety in VI. 97 Wrote to Majr. Gains to procure Materials to Lay Platforms at Fort Washington. 1814 Duke of Wellington (1838) XI. 564 To construct the battery, with its traverses, platform and magazines in one night. 1827 O. W. Roberts 179 Twelve pieces of Cannon..mounted..on a wooden platform of great thickness. 1890 16 June 3/8 A seven-inch steel breech-loading gun ‘took charge’ in firing, and both gun and carriage were blown off the platform. 1913 Sept. 17/3 Next in importance..is the problem of making it a steady platform for the mounting of rapid-fire guns. 1941 E. C. Shepherd 18 A bomber which does not afford a steady bombing platform is rather like a gun on a boggy emplacement. Nobody can be quite sure where the projectiles will go. 1993 July 24/3 My impression is that the Fokker was a formidable gun platform although it sacrificed other important flight characteristics to give it that advantage. 2. the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > quality of being raised or elevated > raised level surface or platform 1557–8 in R. Adam (1899) I. 268 The expensis maid upone the platt forme above the revestrie. 1596 T. Churchyard sig. B [Court is] The platform where all Poets thriue, Saue one whose voice is hoarse they say, The stage where time away we driue, As children in a pagent play. 1727 A. Hamilton II. lii. 255 The Teytocks Chair..was raised on a plat Form of Deals, with three Steps of Ascent. 1762 (Coronation of Geo. III) 218/2 A platform was erected from the upper end of Westminster Hall..to the west door of the abbey. 1789 A. Young Jrnl. 25 Sept. in (1792) i. 194 Cross the Po by a most commodious ferry; a platform on two boats. 1820 ii. 1372/2 It resembles the platforms used on land for weighing waggons. 1825 W. Hone (1826) I. 1182 There were fifteen hundred variegated illumination-lamps disposed over various parts of this platform [in front of a theatre at a fair]. 1831 4 374 The Queen..advanced in procession to the platform [on which the coronation ceremony was to take place]. 1864 J. R. Lowell 153 He laid the bags upon a platform of alders, which he bent down. 1906 R. E. Dennett xvii. 175 The Oba's throne or chair was placed on a platform of mud three steps above the ordinary level of the ground. 1948 1 Jan. 4/2 Drivers now can park or back into alleys or up to loading platforms with much greater ease. 1990 R. Scarce ii. v. 69 The second group..were to climb trees and sit on platforms for several days. society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > parts of society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > platform on wheels 1821 29 Aug. 115 A very handsome barouch..with a folding seat for children, a barouch box and platform bed. 1832 1 275 Fixed on a moveable platform, having four wheels; these wheels move along an iron railway which is itself fixed on another platform. 1846 11 Conveyed on a truck or platform. 1903 4 Mar. 12/1 A passenger..warned not to ride on the platform of a car which was speeding at the rate of fifty miles an hour. 1931 H. F. Pringle i. xv. 205 On the special train..a bugler appeared on the rear platform to sound the cavalry charge. 1978 R. L. Hill (1979) xx. 244 An early 'fifties flatbed farm truck sat beside the shack, its stacked platform serving as a temporary pen for two enormous sows. 1984 J. Kelman i. 27 The bus stopped, the doors opened, the queue crushed up onto the platform. 1993 June 30/1 The engine and front tires are moved as far forward as possible, translating into a well-appointed, near full-sized cabin on a midsized platform. society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > platform 1838 F. W. Simms 2 On the opposite side an arrival stage or platform is erected. 1846 34 522 The platform of an extensive railway station. 1878 F. S. Williams (ed. 4) 216 The Citadel Station..in 1860 consisted of a single platform for both up and down trains. 1907 J. H. Patterson vii. 75 The ‘boy’..informed me that..an enormous lion was standing on the station platform. 1955 ‘W. Mole’ v. 60 Perry walked primly down to the Circle platform... He took the eastbound Circle train. 1993 R. J. Waller i. 1 When the whistle first sounded far and deep in the countryside, people began pressing toward the edge of the station platform. society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > platform 1938 May 76/3 The coast line..is exposed to strong winds and rough seas during six months of the year, so that a very substantial platform has to be provided when underwater drilling is to be done. 1955 14 24 Fixed-well platforms, unless capable of multiple-well work, are uneconomical ‘at sea’. 1974 Summer 7 The next generation of platforms, now under construction, are concrete structures, in which a massive concrete cellular base, which doubles as oil storage, supports the towers which carry the production platform. 1975 25 May 4/5 Britain's gas supplies are unlikely to be affected, even if some platforms have to stop production temporarily. 1996 20 July 64/2 Platforms that are towed ashore..might break apart, thus wreaking greater environmental havoc than if they were left far out at sea. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > swimming > [noun] > swimming pool > diving board 1938 in A. B. Benson & N. Hedin 380 In 1924, both Spongberg and Brandsten were coaches on the American Olympic swimming team, and saw their divers excel in springboard and platform diving. 1971 L. Koppett ix. 169 Off the platform, some dives are made from a handstand. 1973 21 Aug. 61/7 Finneran is a [sic] Olympic veteran, finishing fifth in the three-meters last year in Munich and ninth in the platform. 1974 XVII. 863/2 When diving first became part of the Olympic program in 1904, it was little more than plain high diving from five- and ten-metre fixed platforms. 1991 8 Dec. v. 35/1 When the diver Greg Luganis hit his head on the 10-meter platform at the Moscow Olympic trials, he was suffering from jet lag. 2004 (Nexis) 23 Sept. d9 She won the three-meter springboard, was second in the one-meter springboard and third in the platform competitions. 3. figurative. the world > existence and causation > causation > basis or foundation > [noun] 1568 V. Skinner in tr. R. González de Montes To Rdr. sig. A.ijv Which is so farre of from any figuratiue speche, as it is knowne to be the very Platfourme and foundation of all these broyles and troubles. 1583 B. Melbancke (new ed.) 62 Crooked benumd age shall wast in woes, where the platforme & foundation of ouergrowen yeares, were not grounded with sowre trauaile. 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in 1168 Ever, where he ought would bring to pas. His long experience the platform was: And, when he ought not pleasing would put by, The cloke was care of thrift. 1698 J. Fryer 12 All the Seasons of the Year being undergone.., we may begin to calculate our Ephemeris afresh; and as a fit Platform, Easter Holy-days bring with them such Weather as is essential to Christide [at the Cape]. 1724 J. Henley et al. tr. Pliny the Younger I. Life 18 Probably the first Platform of his future Industry and Application was laid in an habitual Care to oblige [his uncle]. 1832 1 Sept. 1/2 Fifteen per cent. being the ‘platform’ on which certain interests would agree to protect the national industry!!! 1976 J. Snow 25 Ted Dexter and Jim Parks..two batsmen ideally suited..to Gillette cricket who could build on the Oakman–Suttle opening platform. 1986 (Nexis) 15 Oct. The plan, explained to shareholders at SeaCo's annual meeting in New York yesterday, was intended to ‘restore SeaCo's health and provide a solid platform for future growth’, Mr Sherwood said. 1994 Sept. 135/2 (advt.) This position offers an ideal entry point into this blue-chip manufacturing company and provides the ideal platform for a move into line management within 2 years. 1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in iii. 143 He could never break the umbilical cord which held him to nature, and he did not rise to the platform of pure genius. 1870 R. W. Emerson 206 Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet. 1875 A. Helps ix. 129 The platform of thought upon which each generation finds itself placed, is a platform of a very different kind from that of the preceding thirty years. 1882 W. Sharp v. 315 The young poet may be said to have reached the platform of literary maturity while he was yet learning the grammar of painting. society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > equal dividend platform 1862 168 Charges formed out of Home Mission efforts and not yet admitted on the equal dividend platform. 1910 26 May 7/2 The report was adopted and the deliverance approved declaring a dividend of £160 to all ministers on the equal dividend platform. 1945 24 May 6/5 The deliverance, which was approved, authorised that the stipends of all ministers on the Equal Dividend Platform continue to be calculated at the rate of £300 per annum for 1943. the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > actually occupied 1589 W. Borough in R. Hakluyt ii. 459 With your instrument, for trying of distances, obserue the platforme of the place. 1605 N. Breton sig. D4v Beholde the platforme and Scituation of the Cittie, how it standeth enuironed with the Sea. 1664 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart 122 The Area or Floor, by Artists often call'd the Plan or Plat-forme. 1671 S. Partridge 37 If the platform were a piece of land, 30 perches broad, and 183 perches long. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti I. 2/1 Under the Title of Platform, we..include all those Spaces of the Buildings, which in walking we tread upon with our Feet. 1740 C. Cibber xii. 240 The Area, or Platform of the old Stage, projected about four Foot forwarder, in a Semi-oval Figure. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre (1799) III. 70 I was sitting by the platform of these cottages, and contemplating their ruins. 5. Nautical. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > lower deck > part of 1667 No. 159/4 The Lieutenant succeeding in the command, was about half an houre after wounded in both leggs, and carried down to the Platforme. 1704 J. Harris I Platform, or Orlop, in a Man of War, is a Place on the Lower Deck of her, abaft the Main Mast, and round about the Main Capstan, where, in the Time of Service, Provision is to take care of the Wounded Men; 'tis between the Main Mast and the Cock-pit. 1717 W. Sutherland 15 In a Three Deck Ship I shall make 5 Divisions, as Orlop or Platform, Lower Gun Deck, Middle Deck, Upper Deck, Quarter Deck, Forecastle Deck, Poop Deck. 1728 E. Chambers at Ship [Plate ii] The Platform or Orlop where Provision is made in time of Service for the wounded. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher 532 Platform, a kind of deck for any temporary or particular purpose: the orlop-deck, having store-rooms and cabins forward and aft. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > deck on small boat or yacht 1892 P. H. Emerson iv. 33 I laid the table on the platform. 1950 R. Moore i. 47 Otherwise she'd have come up and drained her platform through the scuppers, as soon as she floated. 1961 F. H. Burgess 161 Platform, floor boards laid over the floors in small yachts to make a walking space. 6. the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > plateau the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > ledge or terrace > [noun] > cut by waves 1813 W. Scott iii. xiv. 149 The brave De Vaux Began to scale these magic rocks, And soon a platform won. 1832 C. Lyell (ed. 2) II. 40 The great platform [in Mexico] which is the scene of sport is at an elevation of about nine thousand feet above the level of the sea. 1836 J. Murray 321/1 The Brockenhaus is the name of the inn on the platform of bare rock which forms the summit of the Brocken. 1860 J. Tyndall ii. x. 284 The station chosen..was on a grassy platform. 1901 12 212 A looped bar or ridge of gravel and sand formed on an old wave-cut platform. 1957 M. Banton i. 3 Freetown lies on a narrow coastal platform with the hills rising behind it. 1974 A. Alvarez (1977) xxix. 211 He climbed on up the last thirty feet, slowly, making it last, paused at the top to look down again, then pulled over onto the flat summit platform. 1975 R. V. Ruhe ix. 178/2 There are five marine terraces in Santa Cruz, California; each platform was cut during rising sea level, and its cover of marine sediments was deposited during falling sea level. 1989 Sept. 10/1 These platforms range in size from 18 to 30 feet in diameter, and are made by cutting into the hillside and throwing the spoil forward to form a distinctive ‘lip’, thus creating a flat circular or oval area. 1991 9 Oct. 42/3 The existing tiny island of Chek Lap Kok will be levelled, and the rock used as landfill to create a platform for the airport, 10m above mean sea level. the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [noun] > crust > parts of crust 1880 Apr. 597 It may be stated as a general fact that the great continental platforms usually rise very abruptly from the margins of the real oceanic depressed areas. 1899 13 285 It has been recognized that the British Isles and adjoining parts of the European continent rise from a submarine platform, generally known as ‘the 100-fathom platform’, or ‘shelf’. 1899 13 286 British and Continental Platform, a gently shelving platform stretching seawards to varying distances from 20 to 200 miles, terminating in a declivity or escarpment at depths (according to distance from land) varying from 100 to 200 fathoms. 1907 H. J. Mackinder (ed. 2) 26/2 The submarine platform thus defined is known as the continental shelf. 1939 E. D. Laborde tr. E. de Martonne (rev. ed.) vi. 91 The most important of these is the existence of a platform, roughly outlined by the isobath for 100 fathoms, which runs at varying distances round the coastline of all continents. 1996 Jan. 65/3 As the individual continents reconverge, volcanic arcs..collide with continental platforms. the world > the earth > land > landscape > [noun] > relief > altitude > common altitude 1908 64 384 Of the older topography..partly destroyed by post-Pliocene denudation, the most striking feature in the higher part of the area is presented by two well-marked high-level platforms, one at 750 feet above the sea, and the other may be called the 1000-foot platform, although it is really a little below this altitude. The latter was first recognized on Davidstow Moor,..but traces of it are to be seen on the surrounding high land in all directions. 1938 A. K. Wells xvii. 226 In a few localities on the Chiltern dip slope remnants of the Lenham platform form a gently inclined shelf above the 400-feet platform. 1954 J. F. Kirkaldy ix. 96 Accordance of summit levels or the presence of platforms at lower levels can be inferred from the layout of the contours. 1966 J. I. Clarke in G. H. Dury 270 Sparsely-distributed height-values rarely give..a good indication of erosion-platforms. the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [noun] > fundamental complex > shield or platform 1908 H. B. C. Sollas & W. J. Sollas tr. E. Suess III. iv. ix. 376 The pre-Cambrian platform [Ger. vorcambrische Tafel]. In front of the Urals there extends the vast Russian plain. Its ancient foundation is not visible till we proceed a considerable distance to the west and south-west. 1923 L. D. Stamp iii. 36 The whole area of S.E. England consists of a blanket of Mesozoic Rocks resting on an eroded surface of Palæozoic rocks called the Palæozoic Platform. 1958 L. P. Smirnow in L. G. Weeks 1168 (heading) Oil-bearing basins on eastern edge of the Russian platform. 1968 C. R. Twidale iii. 49 The Australian continent is built of a Shield, a Platform and an Orogen. 1992 129 513/1 The Welsh Basin was an area of enhanced Early Palaeozoic subsidence on the northwestern margin of the Eastern Avalonian microcontinent. It is bordered to the southeast by the Midland Platform and to the northwest by the smaller Irish Sea Platform. 7. the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > platform or stand 1817 14 Jan. 3/1 There was a capacious platform erected in the centre of the Green, for the accommodation of speakers; and a few minutes after the appointed hour, Mr. Norris, of Sackville-street, was called to the Chair. 1828 E. Irving 37 These texts of Scripture..will enable you to confute a whole platform of society orators. 1868 M. Pattison 6 So much of it [sc. the question] as could be brought upon the platform, was made into a party topic. 1874 J. S. Blackie 25 To go to the pulpit or platform with a thorough command of his subject. 1885 H. N. Oxenham x. 86 Foolish and erroneous..notions are fostered by the periodical press, but the same might be said of the pulpit and the platform. 1901 11 Dec. 3/4 He lamented the growth of the platform. He ignored the Press. His one concern was to be a capable official. 1964 E. B. White 21 Feb. (1976) 517 A man is privileged to say anything he wants to about the magazine, but..he can't use one of my books as a platform. 1977 May 29/4 Aims... To act as a platform for people with radical ideas and opinions. 1996 13 Oct. i. 9/2 Sir Patrick Mayhew, the Northern Ireland Secretary and one of the last Cabinet grandees, did not speak from the platform this year, but he was equally firm in expressing his distaste for this new political fashion. society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party principles or line > on which public appeal is based society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party principles or line > on which public appeal is based > item of 1837 15 Dec. 203/3 We care not who is found upon this broad platform of our common nature. 1838 11 Jan. App. 73/1 We wanted no platform on which to stand, save the Constitution of our country. 1845 C. Sumner in (1893) III. 104 S. C. Phillips and W. B. Calhoun..will labor to bring the Whig party of Massachusetts to the antislavery platform. 1848 6 May 4/1 We hope that the coming convention will..solemnly re-affirm our old party position, by adopting, as its platform of action, the general resolutions of 1844. 1848 J. R. Lowell 1st Ser. viii. 111 It gives a Party Platform, tu, jest level with the mind Of all right-thinkin', honest folks thet mean to go it blind. 1862 T. Hughes in J. M. Ludlow 379 The platform on which Abraham Lincoln came in. 1882 7/1 Platform, a standpoint, as ‘Home rule's my platform’. Originally an Americanism. 1888 J. Bryce II. lxx. 549 The nearest English parallel to an American ‘platform’ is to be found in the addresses..issued at a general election by the Prime Minister..and the leader of the Opposition. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ x. 166 He leaned on the desk and declared his platform to the clerk. He said he had come to Elmore to look for a location to go into business. 1926 A. Conan Doyle I. ii. 25 The broad platform upon which his beliefs were constructed. 1937 189 Without cease the German Government protested against the alliance between Soviet Russia and France, alleging that the pact was a danger to Germany. That was one plank in the platform of German foreign policy. 1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb 484/2 The party platform is adopted before the candidates for President and Vice-President are nominated and..it can happen that the candidate and the platform disagree in important particulars. 1976 Spring 87 The Communist Party of the United States of America..has held conventions to..discuss its strategy and approve a platform. 1992 12 Sept. 6/7 The party's policy had not changed since the election, which was fought on a platform of returning grant-maintained schools to their local authorities. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > sole > other the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with specific types of sole > thick, raised sole 1945 Add. Platform,..an outsole a half inch or more thick, made of wood, cork, etc., and usually covered with leather. 1946 2 Nov. 3 (advt.) Picture-Pretty Platforms... Two flattering styles to choose from..both mounted on black faille platforms. 1960 D. Lessing vii. 229 I could not keep my eyes off her shoes... The soles were platforms two inches deep. 1970 31 Oct. 125/1 A boot with a small platform in a contrasting color. 1973 7 Nov. 18/3 An office manager wearing 4½ inch..platforms said ‘they give you a masculine walk because you walk heavy’. 1995 May 51 Yesterday's sisters busted styles with wigs, platforms and oooh so slinky sequinned dresses. society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > controls and instruments > [noun] > navigational instrument > gyroscopically stabilized mounting for system 1946 Wells & Glenny in M. Davidson iii. i. 174 The gyroscope and the magnetic compass assemblies are supported on platforms attached to a rectangular frame. 1954 Oct. 21/1 Gyros, by virtue of their ability to maintain a fixed direction in inertial space, provide a ready means for stabilizing the accelerometer platform against angular motion of the vehicle. 1970 27 Apr. 15 He charged up Odyssey's small re-entry batteries..and transferred the precise alignment of the command module's ‘platform’—its complex of navigational gyroscopes and accelerometers—to a similar platform in the lunar lander. 1977 Feb. 21/2 A long-range cruise missile employs an inertial-guidance system consisting essentially of three or more accelerometers mounted on gyroscope-stabilized platforms, to guide it along a preassigned course. 1984 Apr. 70/3 Kong games are perhaps the best known of the platform games, but there are quite a few other types, all characterised by the need to climb ever higher either by jumping or climbing ladders and usually both. 1990 Apr. 83/4 Each level is a separate platform challenge... Each platform is scattered with pretty flowers which T & J have to gather up before they are allowed on to the next level. 1998 Apr. 220/2 It's about as 2D and unsophisticated as platform games ever get nowadays, but crammed to the throat with personality-dripping clay-model graphics. 2004 (Nexis) 29 Jan. d4 You might use Sonic's whirlwind attack to upend a giant robot turtle, switch to Knuckles to lay a beating on the robo-reptile and then have Tails fly the trio to the next platform. society > computing and information technology > [noun] > systems design or analysis > structure 1987 (Nexis) 4 Mar. 31 Advanced DOS's positive points are primarily in leveraging existing hardware platforms and maintaining some ties with the past. 1992 Nov. 185/1 With such a platform, you can bring real-time multimedia applications (e.g. digital photography, high-speed image compression, language translation, and teleconferencing) to the desktop. 1995 Feb. 27/1 The first question for any budding WebWeaver is what platform should I use. 2004 (Beginners Special) Apr. 88/1 You'll typically find .wavs on PCs and .aiffs on Macs, although, these days, both platforms can work with both formats. †II. A plane surface or representation. society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > a plan or diagram > plan drawing α. ?1544 Bp. S. Gardiner Tract against W. Turner in (1933) 492 He hath, be lyke, a mervelous plat form in hys hede to buylde, that he wold rid Christis religion of all thes ornamentes. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More sig. Hiiii They say that kyng Vtopus himself..appointed, and drew furth the platte fourme of ye city. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch 587 [They] were euery one occupied about drawing the platforme of Sicile. 1640 tr. J. A. Comenius (new ed.) xlviii. §525 The master-builder, having first drawne out the plot, buildeth according to that draught (model or plat-forme) with other workmen helping him. 1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle 8 Captain Woodcock..shew'd me a Chart or Plat-form of the whole Streight of Ormuz, made by himself. 1763 T. Gray Let. 15 Jan. in (1971) II. 792 I conclude with a rude draught of the platform [of York Cathedral] according to my idea, but without any mensuration. 1774 S. Johnson 4 Aug. (1964) V. 442 All the walls still remain so that a compleat platform, and elevations not very imperfect may be taken. the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > [noun] > flat or level surface or side the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > two-dimensional 1551 R. Record i. Def. Of platte formes some be plain, and some be croked, and some partlie plaine, and partlie croked. 1551 R. Record i. Def. In a dye (whiche is called a cubike bodie) by geometricians..there are .vi. sides, whiche are .vi. platte formes, and are the boundes of the dye. 1551 R. Record ii. Introd. Two right lines make no platte forme. 1574 W. Bourne (1577) xviii. 49 The most parte of the seamen make their account as though the earth were a plat-forme. a1690 S. Jeake (1696) 181 A Diametral Number may have more parts then be apt for the Sides of the Platform or Rectangle Figure it represents. †III. A plan, a strategy. 14. the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > a plan α. 1547 S. Gardiner Let. 28 Feb. in J. Foxe (1563) 732/1 My Lorde of S. Dauies, or suche others haue their hed combrid with any new plat form. 1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Eng. (new ed.) vi. v. 132/2 (heading) in (new ed.) I His destruction intended by queene Quendred, hir platforme of the practise to kill him. 1652 W. Blith ix. 64 A good method, or plat-form to advance each mans labour to the best furtherance of a work. 1686 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas 137 Those who had drawn up the platform of the Pazzi's conspiracy. 1815 J. Adams Let. 12 Mar. in (1856) X. 140 A magnificent confederation, association, platform, or conspiracy, call it what you will, of three great personages to separate all South America from Spain. society > faith > church government > [noun] > specific form of 1572 J. Whitgift sig. Ooivv In the fourth parte, the Authoure taketh uppon him to set downe a plat forme of a Churche, to prescribe the manner of electing ministers. 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ 8 That the platforme of gouernment by Pastors, Doctors, Elders, and Deacons was not deuised by man, but by our Sauiour Christ himselfe. 1644 (title) The platforme of the Presbyterian government with the forme of church worship, &c. published by authority. 1673 H. Hickman 397 How it can be proved, that..the Belgick Churches did first embrace Religion according to the Lutheran, and not the Calvinian platform? a1732 F. Atterbury (1734) II. 24 They..imposed the Platform of their Doctrine..as Divine. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. iii, in (1813) I. 194 The first book of discipline..contains the model or platform of the intended policy. 1835 T. C. Haliburton 1st Ser. 47 Under what Church platform? a1881 Stanley in A. Elliot (1882) 26 No existing Church can find any pattern or platform of its government in those early days. 1882 J. H. Blunt II. 406 Nothing in the Church could be ‘pure’, in their estimation, unless it conformed itself to the Genevan ‘platform’. society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > [noun] society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party principles or line > on which public appeal is based 1587 R. Dudley Let. 11 Oct. in H. Brugmans (1931) 194 Their late platforme, leyd by faction and conspiracyes, doth evydently shewe yt, all which they mainteyn and continew tyll this day, which ys only to stablysh a populer government. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus xiii. i. 179 Then he [sc. Nero] layd downe a platforme of his future regiment. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine iii. xvi. 129 This was the yeare, wherein Rome deuised her platforme of new gouernment. 1625 Deb. Oxf. in S. R. Gardiner (1873) App. i. 140 Sir Robert Philips commended the platforme of Sir Nathaniel Rich, and sayd that wee were beholding unto him for shewing us the way. a1680 D. Holles (1699) 176 A new platform of Government, an Utopia of their own. 1803 27 Apr. The platform of Federalism. 1812 Burke's Speech Act of Uniformity 1772 in V. 8 A violent and ill-considered attempt was made, unjustly, to establish the platforms of the Government. 15. the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun] > model, pattern, or example α. 1574 R. Scot (title) A perfite platforme of a hoppe garden, and necessarie instructions for the making and mayntenaunce thereof. 1586 A. Day i. To Rdr. sig. *4v To laie out a platforme or Methode, for the inditing..of Epistles. 1655 T. Fuller ii. 96 The beastly Monk..had e'ne learned as far as Virgil's Æneids, whence he fetched the Platform of this pretty Conceit. 1693 J. Edwards I. iii. 105 This Garden was the Platform of those before mentioned. 1703 W. Burkitt Luke xi. 1 The Lords Prayer is..a Pattern and Platform, according to which all our Prayers ought to be framed. 1775 E. Burke (1844) II. 3 You will naturally follow the platform of the London petition, and can be at no loss in the wording. 1827 H. Hallam (1842) II. 522 This noble design was not altogether completed according to the platform. society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > introductory or preliminary a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland ii. 39 in J. Ware (1633) An affectation to Irish captainry, which in this platform [Globe ed. plattforme] I indevour specially to beat down. 1647 J. Trapp (Rom. ii. 19) A platform of wholsome words, a systeme, a method artificially moulded, such as Tutours and Professours of Arts and Sciences have, and do read over again and again to their Auditours. 1680 N. Lee i. 3 Thus have I drawn the platform of their Fates. 1727 J. Asgill i. 141 The two Records in the Thessalonians and Corinthians, left us as a Platform of the first Resurrection. †B. adj.the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [adjective] 1632 W. Lithgow v. 208 The tectures of her Houses..being platforme. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. (a) 1900 16 May 2/1 You're an arrival-platform official. Back to your post at once, sir.] 1907 at Platform Platform official. 1980 3 June 2/1 Platform officials were aware of union members having their telephones tapped. 1865 29 The platform operator at each station would know the second when a train was due. If not arrived..he would send the proper signal. 1975 May 1/3 A relatively new breed of oilman will be required. These are the platform operators, the men responsible for the day-to-day running of the platforms. 1991 Sept. 5/1 The greater awareness of providing an even safer environment for offshore operatives is a subject that many platform operators are addressing. 1899 22 Sept. 8/1 On the platform-pavilion stands the ceremonial group of the day. (b) (In sense A. 1a.) 1703 R. Neve 190 Sometimes Platform-lead is near 1/ 6 of an Inch thick. (c) (In sense A. 2c.) 1861 7 Sept. 5/2 George Greenwood..platform foreman on the North London Railway. 1962 30 Apr. 14/6 I ran to the ticket collector. He passed me to the platform foreman. 1858 8 Sept. 10/3 On the day after the accident I took No. 114 to..Brown the platform inspector. 1897 23 Feb. 5/3 My fellow-traveller..had sought out the platform inspector and pointed out the matter to him. 1962 3 Dec. 8/3 A platform inspector waving a train away. 2002 (Nexis) 18 Jan. 17 Anyone interested in..doing general uniformed duties as porter, platform inspector and even working their way up to duty stationmaster..is asked to telephone. 1907 at Platform Platform track. 1954 H. M. Gibbs & C. E. McDowell ix. 167 Adequate rail and motor access to sheds including three apron tracks and two platform tracks having ample crossovers would be available. (d) (In sense A. 2e.) 1938Platform diving [see sense A. 2e]. 1985 80 240 The judging of women's platform diving in the 1976 Olympics. 1992 (BBC Sports) 121/1 Officially, diving made its first appearance at the Olympics at the St Louis Games in 1904, George Sheldon of the USA taking the gold medal in the platform diving. (e) (In sense A. 7.) 1896 at Porter, John Scott His pulpit and platform appeals were marked by a masculine eloquence. 1912 W. E. Weyl 278 Since, however, all the working people of the State are the chief concern of the party..it may also be considered to be broad in its platform appeal. 2001 40 109 Conventional interpretations of the Conservative victory..are rejected here in favor of a view that stresses the role played by patriotic platform appeals. 1887 17 Sept. 6/3 The expedition of agitators from the English Home Rule Union left Dublin this morning in three divisions for their platform campaign. 1909 9 Feb. 1/7 The National Passive Resistance League is organising a platform campaign against the House of Lords. 1974 in P. Hollis v. 121 The evidence shows that the RRA succeeded in the first requisite of a platform campaign, that of holding regular public meetings. 1850 F. W. Robertson (1872) 3rd Ser. i. 7 Platform denunciations. 1866 Mar. 430 Cambridge is too often visible in the man, and is aggravated by the constant habit of platform denunciation. 1927 12 July 15/2 The leaders of the unions have obligations which do not begin and end with platform denunciation of Russian intrigues. 1984 (Nexis) 18 July a16/1 Their platform denunciations of President Reagan as a mere actor with a B-script grasp of political issues. 1850 Jan. 16/2 Moved to smiles by the playfulness of his wit..he has few superiors in platform eloquence. 1924 June 244 The fact is that..he had the happy capacity for making himself, the populace and posterity drunk with platform eloquence. 1992 C. Capper v. 147 Her first chance, if neither for fame nor for the ‘living and practical’ platform eloquence that was denied her as a woman, at least for a small bit of influence. 1855 W. Jay 234 I was induced to lay down a rule..that I would decline all platform engagements, and confine myself more exclusively to the press and the pulpit. 1907 G. Ade 3 June (1973) 41 I have no hankering to undertake any platform engagements as long as I can get money doing something else. 1986 R. Bordin vii. 108 Blue was not a suitable color for business and platform engagements in the nineteenth century. 1842 18 Jan. 4/3 ‘If’, says one of the platform men, ‘the established clergy are unfit to come here..let me ask you, how does that apply to the landowners in the House of Commons?’. 1854 Mar. 557/1 We all feel that in the birth struggle of our heroic age, caucuses and platforms, and platform-men, would have been sadly out of place. 1903 J. Morley III. x. v. 433 Platform-men united with pulpit-men in swelling the whirlwind. 1971 15 May 18/4 Speakers from the hall showed in general more appreciation of the problems than the platform men. 1852 B. R. Hall x. 175 The doctor's theology, and pulpit or platform manner, may be learned hereafter. 1947 Sept. 34 As if Chopin was a puppet worked by a skilled ventriloquist of charming platform-manners. 1984 19 Sept. 13/1 Norgaard's delight in pattern-making and musical games is combined with a hardness and energy belied by his platform manner. 1839 J. Kenyon 70 The Pastor then ‘to all the country dear’—No platform orator—no pamphleteer—Not basely busy for committee sway, Nor plotting glories for some public day. 1849 22 Dec. 532/1 There is something of the platform orator in the manner in which he now and then needlessly heaps illustration upon illustration, and smothers an argument by avoidance or by words, rather than settles it in a close grapple. 1924 18 338 Facing the divided, confused Conservatives, poorly equipped with platform orators, were enthusiastic, unified Liberals and an excellently disciplined Labor party. 2002 (Nexis) 6 July Draughty halls would fill. Hecklers would joust with platform orators. 1842 30 Dec. 4/4 We fear, however, that it represents only too faithfully the moral character of the system which invokes the aid of platform oratory to carry on religious undertakings. 1891 G. B. Shaw ii. 23 In proclaiming the ideal in fiction, poetry, pulpit and platform oratory, and serious private conversation. 1996 D. R. Chandler v. 100 Persons must fulfill their responsibilities in the spiritual sphere where no eloquent expressions emanating from platform oratory can describe love. 1884 12 July 4/4 (headline) Platform Points. 1949 15 Oct. 825/2 His [sc. Lord Beaverbrook's] platform points are pure chauvinism. 2004 (Nexis) 21 Mar. 10 a That was a central platform point for him, and both parties worked for that. 1904 G. B. Shaw x. 89 One of the keenest grievances of the commercial man who sees profitable branches of his own trade undertaken by the municipality is that..it forces him to pay rates, and then uses the rates to ruin him in his business. The effective platform reply to this is that the profitable municipal trades, far from costing the ratepayers anything, actually lighten their burden. 1996 (Nexis) 3 July 6 Another question: ‘Why is Help the Aged called that? What about going more upbeat? What about Mature Action?’ Platform reply: ‘You have a point. We'll think about that.’ 1846 June 728 A speech from..the most distinguished platform speakers, wholly differs..from those of the more practical orators. 1903 18 Mar. 1/1 An admirable platform speaker. 1990 16 Nov. 12/3 He is a powerful platform speaker—people use words like ‘charismatic’ to describe his leadership qualities. 1837 J. Bunting Let. in T. P. Bunting (1887) II. xix. 308 I dislike exceedingly platform speaking, and have lost..all power in that way of..doing justice to the cause. 1906 25 July 10/1 Mr. Banerjea turned his exceptional talents in the direction of journalism and platform-speaking. 1982 4 Nov. 14/2 His television manner and public platform speaking can seem wild-eyed, slightly crazed. b. Objective. (a) (In sense A. 7.) 1901 July 55 These by-gone platform-framers and ‘leaders of revolts’. 1988 (Nexis) Sept. 135 Nuclear advocate Governor John Sununu..has been a principal adviser to Bush and to the platform framers on energy matters. 1852 May 389/1 Aggression upon us will be put to the order of the day, by the platform makers of Vienna, Troppan, Layback, and Verona. 1891 6 295 Our banks of issue find no defenders among the platform makers. 2004 (Nexis) 16 Feb. 40 Will Boeing be an integrator or a platform maker? (b) (In sense A. 8.) (i) 1982 III. at Platform Platform-wearer. 1991 13 Feb. 53/2 The classic record by The Fatback Band that had flares and platform wearers breaking their legs in the '70s. (ii) 1926 R. Frost 11 Feb. (1964) 178 You should get so platform proud as to be undealable with. 1866 Visct. Strangford (1869) II. 323 I venture to think that the time for platformism is past, even in this platform-ridden country. C2. 1821Platform bed [see sense A. 2b]. 1897 10 150 The author regards these platform-beds (constructed to avoid the pest of mosquitoes) as an interesting example of ‘the adaptation of the life of savage peoples to daily environment,’ and suggests the same idea as explanatory of certain similar structures elsewhere. 1949 K. Oberg 17 Inside the house there are a table, three long wooden benches, and a platform bed resting on forked sticks. 2003 (Nexis) 15 Oct. 38 The couple's bedroom is even smaller, but Dominic rose to the challenge, making a high platform bed of maple, with deep glide-out drawers beneath for shoes and separates. 1900 at Gondola A railway car having a platform body with low sides. 1919 26 Sept. 2/1 (advt.) 3-4 ton peerless, fitted with flat platform body, cab over driver, of very smart appearance. 2000 (Nexis) July He took on a load of pallets for the ride back and ‘forgot everything we talked about’. The platform body buckled. 1872 (U.S. Patent Office) Class 106 139 Platform-bridges for railway cars. 1890 4539/3 Platform-bridge, a movable gangway over the space between the platforms of two railroad-cars, designed to protect passengers from falling between the cars. society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > low or without sides 1843 E. H. Derby (1844) 20/1 By this, with the aid of a winch, diligences and private carriages are..lifted, with their passengers and baggage, from the wheels and axles, and transferred to platform cars. 1900 23 Oct. 8/1 An order for..several steel platform cars of forty tons capacity. 1997 II. 1278 The urn containing the skulls and bones of Hidalgo..was placed on a long railroad platform car, elegantly decorated with black velvet and roses, and pulled through the streets by magnificent black steeds. 1860 28 May 12/2 Mr. Whitworth's gun was fixed on a naval traversing platform carriage on board the Carnation gunboat. 1889 4 Oct. 234/2 The rolling-stock consists of..twenty platform-carriages. 1980 F. Wickwire & M. Wickwire viii. 155 Madras complied, even to the extent of building special platform carriages for transporting the clothing and camp equipment. a1884 E. H. Knight Suppl. 691/2 Platform Crane, a crane upon a landing platform for discharging goods, etc., from cars or wagons. 1961 11 May 15/4 A platform crane was sent by the corporation lighting department and it lowered the cake, which weighed a little matter of ninety pounds, from a window. 1957 1 Jan. 8/6 The platform legs were damaged and the helicopter landing stage collapsed, though the helicopter escaped. 1991 Sept. 86/3 The towheads will be pulled onto the mudmats on the platform legs. the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > equipment for weighing > [noun] > a weighing apparatus > for weighing heavy bodies > weighing machine with platform 1856 1 Nov. 62/3 A large variety of weighing apparatus from post office scales up to large platform machines. 1922 G. A. Owen x. 134 Platform machines and weighbridges..are used in the main for weighing above 1 cwt., and are distinguishable by a goods platform. 1969 T. J. Metcalfe I. x. 99 Platform machines may be portable or dormant. the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > deposited by water, ice, or wind > [noun] > by water 1863 C. Lyell xvi. 336 Deposits of ‘platform mud’, as it has been termed in France, might be extensively formed. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > other types of tennis > [noun] 1935 in F. S. Blanchard (1944) iii. v. 56 The following rules..are the officially approved rules for Platform Paddle Tennis. 1967 O. H. Durrell i. 3 Originally called paddle tennis, it later became platform paddle tennis and was finally shortened to platform tennis although most old timers..still refer to it as paddle. 1999 (Nexis) 2 Sept. 3 b The Brighton Recreation Department is offering an instructional course on platform paddle tennis. society > authority > office > holder of office > [noun] > body of > sitting on platform 1849 Jan. 11/1 I affirm that this Baltimore platform party stand at this day radically in opposition to the whole theory and practice of the old Democratic party. 1967 O. Wynd xii. 186 You can come with us. As one of the platform party. 1990 (RNLI) Spring 239/1 The gloomy weather was quickly ignored and the scene set for Pipe Major Hadden to precede the platform party through the avenue of youngsters. 1859 14 Feb. 4/2 The airing of Cuba as a platform-plank had been carried on quite long enough. 1931 H. F. Pringle i. xii. 161 He borrowed many a platform plank from the man he professed to hold in contempt. 1999 3 Oct. i. 3/3 But other platform planks are, in American terms, classic tax-and-spend liberalism: Mr. Haider promises $400 a month to every Austrian mother. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > rocking chair > types of 1969 J. Gloag (rev. ed.) 564 A revolutionary design, invented in America about 1870, was the platform rocker. 1993 Apr. 80/2 Photographs..of great-uncle Fred, sitting on a porch at the turn of the century in a fine platform rocker. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with straps or thongs > sandal > types of 1940 13 June 3/8 (advt.) Just wait 'til you see our platform sandals, ties and oxfords—and feel how cool they are! 1993 Jan. 106/2 She looks like Barbie in a turquoise chiffon Gypsy outfit and moves as stiffly as a doll on platform sandals. the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > equipment for weighing > [noun] > a weighing apparatus > for weighing heavy bodies > weighing machine with platform 1834 25 Oct. 248/2 E. & J. Fairbanks, a Concentrated Platform Scale—a diploma. 1948 D. M. Considine iv. 67 The portable platform scale consists essentially of a rugged cast iron base mounted on four rubber tired wheels. 1992 28 (BNC) 25 Ohaus, Cambridge, plans to introduce new ranges of analytical balances, platform scales, general purpose bench scales, [etc.]. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with specific types of sole > thick, raised sole 1936 1 Apr. 13 (advt.) The platform shoe arrives as the most distinguished new silhouette in shoes. 1974 J. Willwerth xvi. 226 A Puerto Rican girl wearing fiery lipstick, tight Levis, and platform shoes walks by. 1994 P. Baker ix. 106 She was petite, had a round, curly Afro, and wore platform shoes to make up her height. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > sole > other 1938 10 June 3/2 Platform soles and wedge heels are the big news in summer play shoes. 1939 M. B. Picken 113/3 Platform sole, thick shoe sole, usually from ½ inch to 3 inches in depth; often of cork or wood. 1996 L. O'Keeffe i. 40 The fashionable heel and platform sole are Spanish. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > [adjective] > with sole > with specific type of sole 1938 10 June 3/2 Among the best platform-soled models, a toeless royal blue suede number is outstanding. 1973 6 Jan. 61 Today's fashions, with their high-heeled, platform-soled shoes and long, straight trousers can easily make you look taller. 1998 Aug. 99/1 It must be the only place in the country where you try on platform-soled trainers while listening to the very latest releases. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > other types of stage 1869 June 685/2 In the body of the hall the crackling platform-stage fell in, the hissing flames quivered, the rolling smoke rose, and all that awful hell of fire glared in my sight. 1895 G. B. Shaw in 20 July 77/1 The modern pictorial stage is not so favourable to Shakespearean acting and stage illusion as the platform stage. 1951 218/2 Before English actors had any settled homes they played chiefly in inn-yards.., and their first permanent buildings..were wooden structures, roughly circular, with a raised platform stage backing on to the wall and jutting out into the open space, still called a ‘yard’. 1981 12 Aug. 11/3 A wide platform-stage backed by a tiring-house with curtained openings on two levels. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > other types of tennis > [noun] 1955 14 Mar. 31/2 Platform tennis..is one of the fastest growing and most enjoyable of American sports. 1967 3 Mar. 45 Platform tennis, more commonly called paddle tennis, is not only the newest addition to the family of tennis-type court games: it is unique in that it is played primarily in winter and always outdoors. 1985 9 Oct. a21/2 (advt.) Indoor and outdoor tennis, squash and platform tennis. society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > train ticket > platform ticket 1853 20 Aug. 392/3 In a moment the taped portion of a platform ticket is fastened to the handle of the carpet-bag. 1929 (Gt. Western Railway) 4 Passengers travelling from Platform Ticket Stations without Railway Tickets must surrender their Platform Tickets, and excess fares be charged accordingly. 1975 S. Briggs 92/2 The Government had never intended the Tubes to be used permanently as shelters... However, there was nothing illegal in your buying a platform ticket for 1½d and not travelling. 1990 M. Caine (BNC) 21 Stealing a penny from beneath a milk bottle, [I] bought a platform ticket and stowed away in the goods wagon. the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > [noun] > other types of tree (characterized by habit) 1925 E. Sitwell 67 All day in the limp helpless breeze Beneath the empty platform trees He sits with Brobdignagian asses. society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > truck or lorry > with specific type of body 1868 A. E. Beach i. 7 For freight purposes, simple platform trucks, strong enough to support the load, are sufficient. 1875 E. H. Knight III. 2488/2 Tank-car, a large tank mounted on a platform-truck for carrying petroleum or other liquid. 1987 B. West (BNC) 82 The Morris as a tractor was unsatisfactory, and was replaced by a Roberts platform truck or trolley. society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > low or without sides 1850 D. Lardner vi. 101 (table) Platform-wagons. 1866 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox (new ed.) II. 929/2 Platform Waggon, in Artillery, a carriage on four wheels, fitted for the transport of guns, mortars, traversing platforms, or other heavy stores. 1948 J. D. Rittenhouse 15 Side-seated platform wagon. Used by hotels and resorts to convey guests from railroad ‘depots’. 1993 D. R. Payne (ed. 3) ii. 47 This is accomplished by building an entire setting on a platform wagon that can remove the setting to an offstage position while another setting takes its place. 1871 Mar. 279/2 Lysistrata, if living now, would be able to champion the cause of woman's rights and woman's suffrage with as much wit, keenness of repartee, eloquence, and states-womanship as the foremost of our platform women. 1876 T. Hardy II. xxxvii. 115 These stage and platform women have what they are pleased to call Bohemianism so thoroughly engrained with their natures that [etc.]. 1901 24 Aug. 8/1 She is not a ‘platform woman’ in the common acceptation of the phrase. 1976 Oct. 33/3 The ‘strong-minded’ or ‘platform’ woman was the Victorian equivalent of the modern media image of the bigoted, and bra-burning ‘libber’. society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific jobs are done > [noun] > construction sites 1973 A. Price ix. 128 He's got a rig of his own... He's built a platform yard of his own at Hartlepool. 1983 7 Sept. 17/7 The Government-funded concrete platform yard at Portavaide that closed earlier this year without ever having built a thing is a case in point. 1998 (Nexis) 1 Aug. 22 With several large offshore developments nearing completion, the sector is rapidly running out of follow-on contracts which are critical to continuity of work in platform yards and other oil-related businesses. Derivatives 1870 C. Dickens xvii. 131 ‘The Commandments say no murder..sir!’ proceeded Mr. Honeythunder, platformally pausing. the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [adjective] > of or relating to a speaker > of type of speaker 1892 3 Feb. 6/6 A manner described..as a trifle too platformish for the House of Commons. 1852 19 Apr. 2/3 The atmosphere was too rankly tainted with the malign breath..of Abolitionism, Secessionism, Baltimore Platformism, Old Fogyism and Young Fogyism. 1866 Visct. Strangford (1869) II. 323 I venture to think that the time for platformism is past, even in this platform-ridden country. 1892 R. Kipling in (Weekly ed.) 25 Nov. 13/2 The railway..a platformless, regulationless necessity. 1975 10 Feb. 6/3 The oil company calls its new platform-less offshore unit a submerged production system (SPS). 1996 (Nexis) 10 June 10 With the advent of Sun's open system programming language Java, and the explosion of the Internet, there is a major drive towards making systems irrelevant, and platformless software delivery at a mouse click is the obvious result. the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [adjective] > of or relating to a speaker > of type of speaker 1890 G. B. Shaw in 7 Feb. 2/4 A hideous affectation of platformy accent. 1935 M. Beerbohm Let. 7 Sept. in (1964) 277 G. B. S.'s acting quite capital. But he's no good in a ‘talk’: much too loud and quick—too platformy. 2001 14 July 24 I find Dickens's essays in Household Words a bit platformy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). platformv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: platform n. Etymology: < platform n. Compare earlier platforming n.1 I. To provide with or stand on a platform. society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > provide with balcony or terrace 1578 in J. D. Marwick (1882) IV. 73 The provest [etc.]..ordanis to platforme the Kirk of Field stepill..the Freir port and West port. 1616 in J. Stuart (1848) II. 341 The said Thomas sall..platforme and mack watterthicht the haill heid of the hous with fyne aisler. 1632 W. Lithgow viii. 365 The houses..are all builded with mudde, and platformed on their tops. 1777 F. Carter I. 188 It [sc. the navy hospital] is built on live rocks, leveled and platformed at a vast expence. 1796 J. Morse (new ed.) II. 483 Houses, two stories high, platformed at the top for walking. 1851 H. Melville xlviii. 245 Likewise upon the extreme stern of the boat where it was also triangularly platformed level with the gunwale, Starbuck himself was seen..balancing himself. 1991 Mar. (BNC) The final improvement is made to the ramp by platforming all of the remaining unplatformed lip. the world > space > relative position > high position > set in a high position [verb (transitive)] > place (as) on a platform 1843 C. Mathews in Oct. 421/2 By passion and the force of earnest thought, Borne up and platformed at a height, Where 'gainst thy feet the force of earth and heaven are brought. 1844 E. B. Browning xii Platforming his chin On the palm left open. 1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile 602 in I Platformed in mid air. 1933 Dec. 360/1 It will result in the necessity of ‘platforming’ (raising the finished floor level) the bathroom. 1975 28 Jan. 17/5 Below this, and apparently platformed into the naturally sloping land, was a length of well-preserved post and wattle walling. 3. the mind > language > speech > speech-making > make a speech [verb (intransitive)] 1859 Lincoln in 11 June (1896) 4/1 The point of danger is the temptation in different localities to ‘platform’ for something that will be popular just there. 1892 H. Jephson II. 543 On the 18th September two Conservative ex-Ministers ‘platformed’. 1897 23 Apr. 2/1 She has never appeared on any platform, in any cause—to ‘platform’ betrays, in a woman, a high stomach. 1983 14 Oct. a9/1 While Molcak says he has encountered a ‘strong array’ of concerns, he is platforming..on the need for expertise in land sales on the city council. 1871 16 Dec. 4/5 To read what is now for ever platformed by the speakers on this question, one would suppose that every denomination had a store of its own virus for school purpose. 1877 23 Aug. 4/3 The Democrats..have consistently adhered to the financial principles of their party as they were platformed two years ago. 1905 6 Jan. 13/5 The decisive point was neither debated, platformed, nor opposed. 1947 2 Oct. The..Cox-Roosevelt ticket was far superior to the Harding-Coolidge slate, because they platformed ‘Yes’ on a similar question. 1995 (Nexis) 19 Jan. While the PTAR issue will be one of the major debating points at the two-day conference, a range of other issues will be platformed by Hedlund and other INTV execs. 1980 27 Oct. c15/3 United Artists' ‘A Small Circle of Friends’ failed miserably when the studio platformed it last year. 1995 G. Drabinsky viii. 164 Considering the enthusiastic response at the preview, Fox decided to ‘platform’ the film with a Thanksgiving release, giving it an exclusive opening at one theatre in each of the three leading North American markets. 2000 9 June (Friday Review section) 7/4 I like the movie a lot. Yes, I think it could have been platformed more aggressively but it's thrilling that Mike Hodges has now got his just desserts. †II. To plan, sketch. the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (transitive)] 1592 G. Harvey xiv. 69 Vertues all, and Honours all inflame Braue mindes to platfourme, and redoubted handes To doe such deedes. 1593 G. Harvey 114 Conceit, that buildeth Churches in the Ayer, and platformeth Disciplines without stayne, or spott. 1602 W. Fulbecke ii. Ded. To platforme a consummate and exemplarie Parallele or Trinomion. 1641 J. Milton 3 To grant that Church discipline is platform'd in the Bible. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.adj.1531 v.1578 |
