Dictionary Definition
platform
Noun
1 a raised horizontal surface; "the speaker
mounted the platform"
2 a document stating the aims and principles of a
political party; "their candidate simply ignored the party
platform"; "they won the election even though they offered no
positive program" [syn: political
platform, political
program, program]
3 the combination of a particular computer and a
particular operating system
4 any military structure or vehicle bearing
weapons [syn: weapons
platform]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- A raised stage from which speeches are made and songs are sung.
- A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
- A raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train.
- (automobiles) A set of components shared by several vehicle models.
- A particular type of operating
system or environment such as a
database or other
specific software,
and/or a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used to
describe a particular environment for running
other software, or for defining a specific software or hardware
environment for discussion purposes.
- That program runs on an X-Window-System platform.
- Typical PCs use the x86 platform.
- That program runs on an X-Window-System platform.
Derived terms
- platform bed (see bed)
Translations
A raised stage from which speeches are made and
songs are sung
- Croatian: podij
- Finnish: lava, puhujakoroke (1,speeches only'')
- French: scène, podium
- German: Plattform , Podest
- Hungarian: emelvény, pódium
- Slovene: podij
A political stance on a broad set of issues,
which are called planks
- Croatian: platforma
- Finnish: vaaliohjelma, puolueohjelma
- Hungarian: politikai program, pártprogram
- Swedish: plattform
structure for waiting for a train
- Chinese: 月台 (yuètái)
- Croatian: platforma
- Czech: nástupiště, peróna
- Dutch: perron
- Finnish: asemalaituri
- French: quai
- German: Bahnsteig
- Hungarian: vágány, peron
- Italian: binario
- Japanese: プラットホーム (purattohōmu), ホーム (hōmu)
- Slovene: peron
- Spanish: andén
- Swedish: plattform
A set of components shared by several vehicle
models
A particular type of operating system or
environment
Translations to be checked
- ttbc Dutch: podium , platform
- ttbc Old English: yppe
- ttbc Portuguese: plataforma
- ttbc Spanish: plataforma
- ttbc Swedish: plattform
Extensive Definition
The word platform is used in several different
contexts, usually referring to some kind of standing surface used
to support things, give them stability, or visibility:
- Railway platform, an area at a train station to alight from/embark on trains or trams
- Political
platform, a list of principles held by a political party
- Platformism, in anarchist politics, the tradition of Nestor Makhno's Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists
- Platform (European politics), an openly organized faction within a left-wing political party
- Platform (computing), a framework on which applications may be run
- Platform cover, in geology, the sedimentary deposits that lie on top of the craton's platform
- Platform game, a genre of video games
- Platform (geology), the part of a continental craton that is covered by sedimentary rocks
- Oil platform, a structure built for oil production
- Automobile platform, a set of components shared by several vehicle models
- Platform shoe, a kind of shoe with a thick sole
- Continental platform, in geology, the low depth sea area next to the continent
- A swimming pool platform, from which bathers jump
- Jumping platform, naturally occurring platforms, or platforms made in an ad-hoc way for cliff jumping
- Platform (film), a 2000 film by Jia Zhangke
- Platform (novel), a 2001 novel by Michel Houellebecq
- Platform (TV series), a short-lived internet television series that aired in 2007
platform in Bulgarian: Платформа
platform in German: Plattform
platform in Spanish: Plataforma
platform in Persian: سکو
platform in French: Plate-forme
platform in Korean: 플랫폼
platform in Dutch: Platform
platform in Japanese: プラットフォーム
platform in Portuguese: Plataforma
platform in Russian: Платформа
platform in Slovak: Platforma
platform in Swedish: Plattform
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
address, agora, amphitheater, arena, athletic field, auditorium, background, balcony, bear garden, bench
mark, billiard table, bookmark, bowl, bowling green, boxing ring,
bull ring, cairn, campus, canvas, catafalque, catstone, circus, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, course, creed, dais, dead flat, dead level,
declaration of policy, deliver an address, discourse, earth, emplacement, esplanade, estrade, field, flat, flatland, floor, forum, gallery, give a talk, ground, guiding principles,
gym, gymnasium, hall, heliport, hippodrome, homaloid, horizontal, horizontal axis,
horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal
plane, horizontal projection, hustings, issue, keynote address, keynote
speech, landing, landing
pad, landing stage, landmark, launching pad,
ledge, level, level line, level plane,
lighthouse, lightship, line, lists, locale, mark, marker, marketplace, mat, mean sea level, menhir, milepost, milestone, milieu, monument, open forum, palaestra, parade ground,
parterre, party line,
party platform, pharos,
pit, place, plain, plan of action, plane, plank, podium, policy, polity, position paper, prairie, precinct, principles, prize ring,
procedure, program, public square, pulpit, purlieu, range, ring, rostrum, scene, scene of action, scenery, sea level, sea of
grass, seamark, setting, site, soapbox, speak, speechify, sphere, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting,
stand, step terrace,
steppe, stump, table, take the floor, take the
stump, talk, tenets, terrace, terrain, theater, tilting ground,
tiltyard, tower, tribunal, tribune, walk, watchtower, water level,
wrestling ring