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单词 platform
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platformnoun

uk/ˈplæt.fɔːm/us/ˈplæt.fɔːrm/

platform noun (STRUCTURE)

B2 [ C ] a flat raised area or structure

A2 [ C ] a long, flat raised structure at a railway station, where people get on and off trains:

The next train for Aberdeen will depart from platform 9.

[ C ] the raised part of the floor in a large room, from which you make a speech or give a musical performance:

Speaker after speaker mounted/took the platform to denounce the policy.
This brilliant young violinist has appeared on concert platforms all round the world.
the platform UK

the people who are up on a platform in order to speak to an audience:

An elderly lady stood up and said she had a question for the platform.
The platform party (= the group on the platform) applauded loudly.

More examples

  • All southbound trains leave from platform one.
  • Three men were feared dead last night after a helicopter veered off course into an oil platform.
  • I slipped as I stepped onto the platform.
  • He mounted the platform and began to speak to the assembled crowd.
  • Passengers wishing to take the Kings Cross train should go to platform 9.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Parts of buildings: floors & parts of floors

  • basement
  • catwalk
  • ceiling
  • dais
  • decking
  • floor
  • ground level
  • landing
  • loft
  • low slung
  • mezzanine
  • planking
  • podium
  • rostrum
  • runway
  • story
  • the first floor
  • the ground floor
  • the second floor
  • top floor

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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Train & bus stations & taxi ranks
Groups of people

platform noun (IDEAS)

C2 [ C usually singular ] an opportunity to make your ideas or beliefs known publicly:

By refusing to give us a grant to make this programme, they are denying us a platform.

[ S ] all the things that a political party promises to do if they are elected:

We campaigned on a platform of low taxation.

More examples

  • The television has provided the evangelists with yet another platform for their proselytizing.
  • This generous grant will provide a platform for new research and development.
  • These kind of TV-shows provide the platform for opinionated people to express their views.
  • the Labour party platform
  • a strong gay rights platform

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Opportunity

  • a free ride idiom
  • another/a second bite at/of the cherry idiom
  • best bet idiom
  • bite
  • break
  • chance
  • half
  • it's now or never idiom
  • look in
  • make hay while the sun shines idiom
  • manqué
  • miss
  • op
  • pass
  • the American dream
  • the run of sth idiom
  • the world is sb's oyster idiom
  • there are plenty more fish in the sea idiom
  • toehold
  • window

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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Ideas, concepts and theories
Politics - general words

platform noun (COMPUTING)

[ C ] the type of computer system or smartphone you are using, in relation to the type of software (= computer programs) you can use on it:

This new personal banking software can be used with any Windows platform.
Both Apple's iOS and Google's Android mobile platforms now have emoji keyboards built into their software.

Idiom(s)

share a platform
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