英语词汇“platform”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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WORD ORIGINplatform

Origin:

1500-1600 French plateforme ‘diagram, map’, from plat ‘flat’ + forme ‘form’

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

"The deal provides us with a platform for expansion into new markets," Weldon said.
a gas drilling platform
Actors have a good platform to promote their causes.
Please address your comments to the platform.
Professor Allen stepped up onto the platform.
The party's new platform emphasizes rural development.
The train to Boston leaves from Platform 9.
Which platform does your department use, Windows or Macintosh?

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Although different installers are required for each platform, there is considerable commonality of code between the installers, observes Praxis.
General Vladimir Fyodorov led an ultranationalist government to power in 2002 on a platform pledged to eliminating organized crime at any cost.
Often she wore platform heels and flared trousers.
The train's arrival was an Event and whole families gathered on the station platforms to see their travelling members off.
The train drew away and Claudia was left alone on the platform.
Warehouses yawning out over the barren yards and loading docks; rusted cranes fused to their platforms, punching at the air.

THESAURUS► station

a place where trains or buses regularly stop: · The town has its own railway station.· Paddington Station in west London· the bus station

► terminus

the station or stop at the end of a railway or bus line: · We’ve arranged to meet her at the Victoria bus terminus.· the railway terminus in central Calcutta

► track

[usually plural] the metal lines along which trains travel. This is sometimes used in American English to say which part of a station a train will leave from: · The passenger train, traveling at 120 mph, careered off the tracks.

► platform

the raised place beside a railway track where you get on and off a train in a station – used especially to say which part of a station a train will leave from: · Trains for Oxford leave from Platform 2.

► ticket office

(also booking office British English) the place at a station where tickets are sold: · You can buy rail tickets online or at the ticket office.

► departures board

British English (also departure board American English) a board saying when and from which part of a station each train will leave: · The departures board said that the train was ten minutes late.

WORD SETS► Building

aisle, nounbelfry, nounbiomass, nounbooth, nounbreakwater, nounbridge, nounbridge, verbclapboard, nouncondemn, verbcondo, nounconstructor, nouncourtyard, nouncubicle, nouncupola, noundais, nounderrick, noundes res, noundeveloper, noundevelopment, noundome, noundomed, adjectivedry rot, nounDumpster, noundump truck, nounduplex, nounDutch barn, noundwelling, noundyke, nouneaves, nounelevator, nounescalator, nounestate, nounexit, nounfarmstead, nounfence, nounfirebrick, nounflagged, adjectiveflagstone, nounfortify, verbfoundation stone, nounfountain, nounfreehold, nounglazier, nounglazing, noungrating, noungroin, noungroyne, nounhandrail, nounhousing estate, nounhut, nouninsulation, nounironwork, nounlandscape architect, nounlandscape gardening, nounlevee, nounlisted, adjectivelow-rise, adjectivelychgate, nounmanor, nounmansion, nounmarble, nounmason, nounmasonry, nounminaret, nounmulti-storey, adjectivemulti-storey, nounopen-plan, adjectivepanel, nounpanelled, adjectivepantile, nounpillar, nounplatform, nounportal, nounportcullis, nounprecast, adjectiveprefab, nounprefabricated, adjectivepre-stressed, adjectivepublic works, nounQuonset hut, nounrailing, nounredecorate, verbredevelop, verbrevolving door, nounriser, nounrising damp, nounrivet, nounrood screen, nounroof, nounroom, nounroughcast, nounrow house, nounsalon, nounsash window, nounseawall, nounshelter, nounstanchion, nounstorey, nounstrut, nounsubside, verbsubsidence, nounsubstructure, nounsuperstructure, nounsurvey, nounsurvey, verbsurveyor, nounswing bridge, nountar, nountar, verbtower, nountriplex, nounurban renewal, nounwatercourse, nounwicket gate, nounwindbreak, nounwindmill, nounyard, noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► an observation deck/platform/tower

(=a structure that is built in order to observe something)· The army built an observation tower on the top of the building.

► platform shoes

(=with a thick base)· I found an old pair of platform shoes from the 1970s.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► high

· Use higher platforms as your legs become stronger.· For a long moment I just stood there in the darkness, feeling like a diver on a high platform.· Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods.· Finished, the 4-foot-high platform was three times larger than any stage extant in San Francisco.· Rows of hard-backed tip-up seats occupied the room which sloped towards a high platform.· The bed occupied a high platform of stained pine.

► new

· The new platforms need to show enhanced functionality, lower software and hardware costs, and, above all, easy availability.· Dole and Kemp both oppose abortion, and the new Republican platform retains a strong anti-abortion plank.· This station is new; much excavation had to be done to provide space and a new platform hall.· Conservatives insist that the new platform retain the 1992 abortion plank calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion.· With.NET, Microsoft's plan is to establish a new platform.· For these new requirements, platform choices include high-end symmetric multiprocessors, clustered architecture, and massive parallel systems.· This will work, however, only if Microsoft can persuade programmers to write software that runs on its new platform.· It will also introduce a new technology platform for Abbey.

► other

· Symbolics plans to unbundle its various products and says support for other Unix platforms will follow.· Hyundai plans to port the system to other platforms as well.· The game play is smooth and the graphics are as good as any other platforms type game.· This footbridge used to be the only way to cross to the other platform.· No other platforms are considered significant.· It says it will extend the mechanism to support other database platforms in future.· Gupta says, it will be announcing further support for other platforms later in the year.· The other platform is empty but for Hancock.

► political

· Its political platform is brief: the iron hand against Communism to save private enterprise.· Perhaps most importantly, city halls provide the opposition with a significant political platform before national elections later this year.· Resolving such ambiguities is extremely important since entire economic and political platforms rest upon the outcome.· Some commentators suggest that it represents a key political platform for the government in coming years.· Up until then, the Contract was far clearer than most political platforms.

► raised

· At the back of the raised platform at one end of the hall was a wooden cross, about six feet high.· Beds varied in their design and some were raised platforms made out of wood or stone.· They could listen to the pipe bands and Tina liked watching the Highland dancers on the raised platform.· The use of steps or raised platforms is recommended.

► republican

· Another important development prior to the opening of the Republican convention was the finalization of party policy by the Republican platform committee.· Dole and Kemp both oppose abortion, and the new Republican platform retains a strong anti-abortion plank.· By now we know the Republican platform means nothing.· Robert Dornan and Patrick Buchanan -- to pledge to continue to include in the Republican platform a constitutional ban on abortions.· The Kansas senator indicated a willingness to make minor changes in the anti-abortion plank in the Republican platform.· By 1980 the Republican Party platform had become antiabortion; and a president who pledged to outlaw abortion altogether had been elected.

► wooden

· Above, on a wooden platform, are the mill stones, accompanied by one or two antique items of interest.· Most of them had shingled awnings borne on prominent brackets projecting over their simple wooden platforms.· When you die there they put you on a wooden platform below the sky and the vultures come and eat the body.· Susan and Breeze seized their meagre luggage and stepped out on to the tiny wooden platform.· For me, five hundred men built a special wooden platform with twenty-two wheels.· By rail you could alight at the tiny wooden platform that has been used by servicemen for decades.· The Charwighul people laid out their dead on a wooden platform and covered them with reed mats.· Two feet in front of them was the catwalk, a bare narrow wooden platform angling away from a curtained entrance.

NOUN► committee

· Another important development prior to the opening of the Republican convention was the finalization of party policy by the Republican platform committee.· Henry Hyde, R-Ill., who is platform committee chairman, is still hoping to defuse the explosive issue.· The chairman of the convention platform committee, Rep.· Henry Hyde of Illinois chairman of the platform committee.· They also designated representatives for the platform committee.

► hardware

· For reference purposes, multimedia implies decisions about support for specific hardware platforms.· It will be the first time the leading graphics are available on the leading hardware platform.· The choice of package, in turn, will determine what hardware platform is going to be most appropriate.

► oil

· The pilot of a puma helicopter flying between the Magnus Oil platform and another platform when he saw two bombers ahead of him.· Now it's oil platform equipment.· Communities of fish and invertebrates are attracted to structures such as oil platforms and nuclear waste dumps.· Ships are noisy places Ocean-going tankers and oil platforms are formidable places in terms of stray radio transmission.· Typical end-uses include fire screens and welding blankets in potentially hazardous environments such as oil platforms, shipyards and the steel industry.

► party

· The reality is that party platforms are considerably more complex, with choices between desirable ends deliberately obscured.· Pete Wilson, has vowed to remove language in the party platform that calls for a constitutional ban on abortions.· Both the Republican and Democratic Party platforms called for a victims' rights amendment.· Pete Wilson, to re-examine the anti-abortion plank of the party platform.· Many said they would rather devote their energies to defeating Clinton than quarreling over the wording in the party platform.· Henry Hyde, R-Ill., a longtime abortion opponent tapped by Dole to chair the committee crafting the official party platform.· By 1980 the Republican Party platform had become antiabortion; and a president who pledged to outlaw abortion altogether had been elected.· Dobson and other conservatives said they will not accept any changes to the party platform on abortion.

► shoe

· Flares feature highly in the line up, as do dizzy platform shoes that defy gravity.· Remember flares, platform shoes and glam rock?· We all wear mutated versions of the school uniform and platform shoes.· Carmen Miranda got away with cocaine in her platform shoes.

► station

· From the signs on the station platform she could see now where they were.· So they fetched a policeman who threw him and his suitcases on to the station platform.· The unplaceable sadness of belonging was suddenly mine on that station platform.· Its name, as it appears on the signs on the station platform, is Ayrwood-on-Hudson.· The man turns and trots away from me up the right-hand staircase from the mezzanine to the station platform.· There are instances of people being crushed to death or pushed under trains by the crush of excursionists on station platforms.· You could see the station platforms from here, and the station itself and the bridge.· Philip White's day starts on a dark station platform before most of us are up and running.

► unix

· Symbolics plans to unbundle its various products and says support for other Unix platforms will follow.· Prices go from across a range of Unix platforms.· Xshell supports most Unix platforms and X-Windows under Motif.

VERB► build

· Permission has been requested by the Darlington council recreation committee to build a platform on to the railway museum at Hopetown Lane.· Another appears to be a satellite transmitting antenna built atop a two-story platform.· Sightlines can be a good reason for choosing a clear open hall where you can build your own platform or stage.· The paratroop officer failed and spent two years in prison, then slowly began to build his platform for government.· Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods.· He built us nine platforms up in the canopy.

► provide

· The tram carried a mobile generator for the power and provided a stable platform for the television cameras.· By formalising their relationship, the companies hope to provide an established platform which implements the core technology behind the Intelligent Network.· Frankfurt will provide the electronic trading platform and be the centre for hi-tech stocks.· It provides a safe working platform for both you and the equipment needed.· And, to render this possible, it was essential for the state to provide a basic platform of entitlements.· Galerie Jahnhorst & Preuss provides a platform for a calmer but no less original artist.· The presidential offices nestle behind this and a balcony provides a fine platform from which the public can be addressed.

► run

· I run along the platform with the train, and thump again.· I ran on a platform of turning this city into a woman-friendly place, something completely new in its history.· This will work, however, only if Microsoft can persuade programmers to write software that runs on its new platform.· In the 1964 campaign he ran on a platform promising major social reforms at home and peace abroad.· He picked it up and ran out on to the platform hoping to return it to its owner.· The convention was effectively run, with platform differences on abortion, immigration and other matters smoothed over.· Hippix also runs on OS/2 platforms and Hippo reportedly has an installed base of OS/2 customers.· Sure, he ran on a campaign platform befitting a candidate for president of a civic association.

► stand

· The man stood thoughtfully on the platform as the train slowly pulled out of the station.· Mr Hanson liked to stand on the platform to keep his feet off damp ground.· Ryan stood on the little platform by the blackboard, cleaning the board with a rag.· Our good friends standing on the platform.· No doubt Temple remembered that once they stood on the same platform at Cambridge.· So he saves me a dollar and costs me two hundred, and leaves me standing on this platform gnashing my teeth.· Tom and Peter and Peter's new friend Jay were standing on the platform waiting for the southbound Jubilee train.· The sea captain was led down from the wharf to the beach, to stand on the platform beneath the gallows beam.

► walk

· Charlotte walked slowly on to the platform and waited for her train to pull in.· I left them, I walked down the platform making faces at the blackshirts.· Before getting on board some of us walked down the platform to take photographs of Evening Star running round its train.

单词	platform
释义	platformplat‧form /ˈplætfɔːm $ -fɔːrm/ ●●○ S3 W3 noun [countable] Entry menu MENU FOR platformplatform1 train2 for speeches3 politics4 structure5 computers6 express ideas7 bus8 shoes Word Origin WORD ORIGINplatform Origin: 1500-1600 French plateforme ‘diagram, map’, from plat ‘flat’ + forme ‘form’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES "The deal provides us with a platform for expansion into new markets," Weldon said. a gas drilling platform Actors have a good platform to promote their causes. Please address your comments to the platform. Professor Allen stepped up onto the platform. The party's new platform emphasizes rural development. The train to Boston leaves from Platform 9. Which platform does your department use, Windows or Macintosh? EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Although different installers are required for each platform, there is considerable commonality of code between the installers, observes Praxis. General Vladimir Fyodorov led an ultranationalist government to power in 2002 on a platform pledged to eliminating organized crime at any cost. Often she wore platform heels and flared trousers. The train's arrival was an Event and whole families gathered on the station platforms to see their travelling members off. The train drew away and Claudia was left alone on the platform. Warehouses yawning out over the barren yards and loading docks; rusted cranes fused to their platforms, punching at the air. Thesaurus THESAURUS► station a place where trains or buses regularly stop: · The town has its own railway station.· Paddington Station in west London· the bus station ► terminus the station or stop at the end of a railway or bus line: · We’ve arranged to meet her at the Victoria bus terminus.· the railway terminus in central Calcutta ► track [usually plural] the metal lines along which trains travel. This is sometimes used in American English to say which part of a station a train will leave from: · The passenger train, traveling at 120 mph, careered off the tracks. ► platform the raised place beside a railway track where you get on and off a train in a station – used especially to say which part of a station a train will leave from: · Trains for Oxford leave from Platform 2. ► ticket office (also booking office British English) the place at a station where tickets are sold: · You can buy rail tickets online or at the ticket office. ► departures board British English (also departure board American English) a board saying when and from which part of a station each train will leave: · The departures board said that the train was ten minutes late. WORD SETS► Building aisle, nounbelfry, nounbiomass, nounbooth, nounbreakwater, nounbridge, nounbridge, verbclapboard, nouncondemn, verbcondo, nounconstructor, nouncourtyard, nouncubicle, nouncupola, noundais, nounderrick, noundes res, noundeveloper, noundevelopment, noundome, noundomed, adjectivedry rot, nounDumpster, noundump truck, nounduplex, nounDutch barn, noundwelling, noundyke, nouneaves, nounelevator, nounescalator, nounestate, nounexit, nounfarmstead, nounfence, nounfirebrick, nounflagged, adjectiveflagstone, nounfortify, verbfoundation stone, nounfountain, nounfreehold, nounglazier, nounglazing, noungrating, noungroin, noungroyne, nounhandrail, nounhousing estate, nounhut, nouninsulation, nounironwork, nounlandscape architect, nounlandscape gardening, nounlevee, nounlisted, adjectivelow-rise, adjectivelychgate, nounmanor, nounmansion, nounmarble, nounmason, nounmasonry, nounminaret, nounmulti-storey, adjectivemulti-storey, nounopen-plan, adjectivepanel, nounpanelled, adjectivepantile, nounpillar, nounplatform, nounportal, nounportcullis, nounprecast, adjectiveprefab, nounprefabricated, adjectivepre-stressed, adjectivepublic works, nounQuonset hut, nounrailing, nounredecorate, verbredevelop, verbrevolving door, nounriser, nounrising damp, nounrivet, nounrood screen, nounroof, nounroom, nounroughcast, nounrow house, nounsalon, nounsash window, nounseawall, nounshelter, nounstanchion, nounstorey, nounstrut, nounsubside, verbsubsidence, nounsubstructure, nounsuperstructure, nounsurvey, nounsurvey, verbsurveyor, nounswing bridge, nountar, nountar, verbtower, nountriplex, nounurban renewal, nounwatercourse, nounwicket gate, nounwindbreak, nounwindmill, nounyard, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► an observation deck/platform/tower (=a structure that is built in order to observe something)· The army built an observation tower on the top of the building. ► platform shoes (=with a thick base)· I found an old pair of platform shoes from the 1970s. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► high · Use higher platforms as your legs become stronger.· For a long moment I just stood there in the darkness, feeling like a diver on a high platform.· Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods.· Finished, the 4-foot-high platform was three times larger than any stage extant in San Francisco.· Rows of hard-backed tip-up seats occupied the room which sloped towards a high platform.· The bed occupied a high platform of stained pine. ► new · The new platforms need to show enhanced functionality, lower software and hardware costs, and, above all, easy availability.· Dole and Kemp both oppose abortion, and the new Republican platform retains a strong anti-abortion plank.· This station is new; much excavation had to be done to provide space and a new platform hall.· Conservatives insist that the new platform retain the 1992 abortion plank calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion.· With.NET, Microsoft's plan is to establish a new platform.· For these new requirements, platform choices include high-end symmetric multiprocessors, clustered architecture, and massive parallel systems.· This will work, however, only if Microsoft can persuade programmers to write software that runs on its new platform.· It will also introduce a new technology platform for Abbey. ► other · Symbolics plans to unbundle its various products and says support for other Unix platforms will follow.· Hyundai plans to port the system to other platforms as well.· The game play is smooth and the graphics are as good as any other platforms type game.· This footbridge used to be the only way to cross to the other platform.· No other platforms are considered significant.· It says it will extend the mechanism to support other database platforms in future.· Gupta says, it will be announcing further support for other platforms later in the year.· The other platform is empty but for Hancock. ► political · Its political platform is brief: the iron hand against Communism to save private enterprise.· Perhaps most importantly, city halls provide the opposition with a significant political platform before national elections later this year.· Resolving such ambiguities is extremely important since entire economic and political platforms rest upon the outcome.· Some commentators suggest that it represents a key political platform for the government in coming years.· Up until then, the Contract was far clearer than most political platforms. ► raised · At the back of the raised platform at one end of the hall was a wooden cross, about six feet high.· Beds varied in their design and some were raised platforms made out of wood or stone.· They could listen to the pipe bands and Tina liked watching the Highland dancers on the raised platform.· The use of steps or raised platforms is recommended. ► republican · Another important development prior to the opening of the Republican convention was the finalization of party policy by the Republican platform committee.· Dole and Kemp both oppose abortion, and the new Republican platform retains a strong anti-abortion plank.· By now we know the Republican platform means nothing.· Robert Dornan and Patrick Buchanan -- to pledge to continue to include in the Republican platform a constitutional ban on abortions.· The Kansas senator indicated a willingness to make minor changes in the anti-abortion plank in the Republican platform.· By 1980 the Republican Party platform had become antiabortion; and a president who pledged to outlaw abortion altogether had been elected. ► wooden · Above, on a wooden platform, are the mill stones, accompanied by one or two antique items of interest.· Most of them had shingled awnings borne on prominent brackets projecting over their simple wooden platforms.· When you die there they put you on a wooden platform below the sky and the vultures come and eat the body.· Susan and Breeze seized their meagre luggage and stepped out on to the tiny wooden platform.· For me, five hundred men built a special wooden platform with twenty-two wheels.· By rail you could alight at the tiny wooden platform that has been used by servicemen for decades.· The Charwighul people laid out their dead on a wooden platform and covered them with reed mats.· Two feet in front of them was the catwalk, a bare narrow wooden platform angling away from a curtained entrance. NOUN► committee · Another important development prior to the opening of the Republican convention was the finalization of party policy by the Republican platform committee.· Henry Hyde, R-Ill., who is platform committee chairman, is still hoping to defuse the explosive issue.· The chairman of the convention platform committee, Rep.· Henry Hyde of Illinois chairman of the platform committee.· They also designated representatives for the platform committee. ► hardware · For reference purposes, multimedia implies decisions about support for specific hardware platforms.· It will be the first time the leading graphics are available on the leading hardware platform.· The choice of package, in turn, will determine what hardware platform is going to be most appropriate. ► oil · The pilot of a puma helicopter flying between the Magnus Oil platform and another platform when he saw two bombers ahead of him.· Now it's oil platform equipment.· Communities of fish and invertebrates are attracted to structures such as oil platforms and nuclear waste dumps.· Ships are noisy places Ocean-going tankers and oil platforms are formidable places in terms of stray radio transmission.· Typical end-uses include fire screens and welding blankets in potentially hazardous environments such as oil platforms, shipyards and the steel industry. ► party · The reality is that party platforms are considerably more complex, with choices between desirable ends deliberately obscured.· Pete Wilson, has vowed to remove language in the party platform that calls for a constitutional ban on abortions.· Both the Republican and Democratic Party platforms called for a victims' rights amendment.· Pete Wilson, to re-examine the anti-abortion plank of the party platform.· Many said they would rather devote their energies to defeating Clinton than quarreling over the wording in the party platform.· Henry Hyde, R-Ill., a longtime abortion opponent tapped by Dole to chair the committee crafting the official party platform.· By 1980 the Republican Party platform had become antiabortion; and a president who pledged to outlaw abortion altogether had been elected.· Dobson and other conservatives said they will not accept any changes to the party platform on abortion. ► shoe · Flares feature highly in the line up, as do dizzy platform shoes that defy gravity.· Remember flares, platform shoes and glam rock?· We all wear mutated versions of the school uniform and platform shoes.· Carmen Miranda got away with cocaine in her platform shoes. ► station · From the signs on the station platform she could see now where they were.· So they fetched a policeman who threw him and his suitcases on to the station platform.· The unplaceable sadness of belonging was suddenly mine on that station platform.· Its name, as it appears on the signs on the station platform, is Ayrwood-on-Hudson.· The man turns and trots away from me up the right-hand staircase from the mezzanine to the station platform.· There are instances of people being crushed to death or pushed under trains by the crush of excursionists on station platforms.· You could see the station platforms from here, and the station itself and the bridge.· Philip White's day starts on a dark station platform before most of us are up and running. ► unix · Symbolics plans to unbundle its various products and says support for other Unix platforms will follow.· Prices go from across a range of Unix platforms.· Xshell supports most Unix platforms and X-Windows under Motif. VERB► build · Permission has been requested by the Darlington council recreation committee to build a platform on to the railway museum at Hopetown Lane.· Another appears to be a satellite transmitting antenna built atop a two-story platform.· Sightlines can be a good reason for choosing a clear open hall where you can build your own platform or stage.· The paratroop officer failed and spent two years in prison, then slowly began to build his platform for government.· Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods.· He built us nine platforms up in the canopy. ► provide · The tram carried a mobile generator for the power and provided a stable platform for the television cameras.· By formalising their relationship, the companies hope to provide an established platform which implements the core technology behind the Intelligent Network.· Frankfurt will provide the electronic trading platform and be the centre for hi-tech stocks.· It provides a safe working platform for both you and the equipment needed.· And, to render this possible, it was essential for the state to provide a basic platform of entitlements.· Galerie Jahnhorst & Preuss provides a platform for a calmer but no less original artist.· The presidential offices nestle behind this and a balcony provides a fine platform from which the public can be addressed. ► run · I run along the platform with the train, and thump again.· I ran on a platform of turning this city into a woman-friendly place, something completely new in its history.· This will work, however, only if Microsoft can persuade programmers to write software that runs on its new platform.· In the 1964 campaign he ran on a platform promising major social reforms at home and peace abroad.· He picked it up and ran out on to the platform hoping to return it to its owner.· The convention was effectively run, with platform differences on abortion, immigration and other matters smoothed over.· Hippix also runs on OS/2 platforms and Hippo reportedly has an installed base of OS/2 customers.· Sure, he ran on a campaign platform befitting a candidate for president of a civic association. ► stand · The man stood thoughtfully on the platform as the train slowly pulled out of the station.· Mr Hanson liked to stand on the platform to keep his feet off damp ground.· Ryan stood on the little platform by the blackboard, cleaning the board with a rag.· Our good friends standing on the platform.· No doubt Temple remembered that once they stood on the same platform at Cambridge.· So he saves me a dollar and costs me two hundred, and leaves me standing on this platform gnashing my teeth.· Tom and Peter and Peter's new friend Jay were standing on the platform waiting for the southbound Jubilee train.· The sea captain was led down from the wharf to the beach, to stand on the platform beneath the gallows beam. ► walk · Charlotte walked slowly on to the platform and waited for her train to pull in.· I left them, I walked down the platform making faces at the blackshirts.· Before getting on board some of us walked down the platform to take photographs of Evening Star running round its train. 1train especially British English the raised place beside a railway track where you get on and off a train in a station: The Edinburgh train will depart from platform six.2for speeches a stage for people to stand on when they are making a speech, performing etc: a small raised platform at one end of the room3politics a)[usually singular] the main ideas and aims of a political party, especially the ones that they state just before an election → plank: a strong women’s rights platform the Labour party platform b)a chance for someone to express their opinions, especially their political opinionsplatform for The conference provides a platform for people on the left wing of the party.4structure a tall structure built so that people can stand or work above the surrounding area: an oil exploration platform5computers the type of computer system or software that someone uses: the UNIX platform a multimedia platform6express ideas an opportunity to express your ideas to a large number of peopleplatform for We mustn’t give these groups a platform for their propaganda.7bus British English the open part at the back of some double-decker buses, where passengers get on and off8shoes platforms (also platform shoes) [plural] shoes that have a raised thick sole (=flat bottom part) and a high heel
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