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▸ noun: A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.
▸ noun: (figurative) A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion.
▸ noun: (figurative) Something that allows an enterprise to advance.
▸ noun: (politics, figurative) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
▸ noun: (transport) A raised structure or other area alongside rails or a driveway alongside which vehicles stop to take in and discharge passengers.
▸ noun: (geology) A flat expanse of rock, often the result of wave erosion.
▸ noun: (nautical) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.
▸ noun: (Myanmar) sidewalk
▸ verb: (transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform
▸ verb: (transitive) To place on, or as if on, a platform.
▸ verb: (rail transport) To place a train alongside a station platform.
▸ verb: (politics, transitive) To include in a political platform
▸ verb: (transitive) To publish or make visible; to provide a platform for (a topic etc.).
▸ verb: (film, transitive) To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm.
▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
▸ noun: (footwear, in the plural) Ellipsis of platform shoe: a kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles. [A type of footwear with very thick soles and heels to make the wearer appear much taller than they actually are.]
▸ noun: (Internet) Ellipsis of digital platform: a software system used to provide online services to clients, such as social media, e-commerce, cloud computing etc.
▸ noun: (computing) Ellipsis of computing platform: 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.
▸ noun: (automotive) Ellipsis of car platform: a set of components shared by several vehicle models.
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program,
chopine,
political platform,
political program,
weapons platform,
framework,
toolset,
system,
portal,
multiplatform,
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