platform

Forms

1.A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
- Always, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, as in private conversation, there is an absolute simplicity about the man and his words; a simplicity, an earnestness, a complete honesty.
2.A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.
3.A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion.
- This new talk show will give a platform to everyday men and women.
4.Something that allows an enterprise to advance.
- Hidgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.

1.To furnish with or shape into a platform
2.To place on, or as if on, a platform.
- And this dog was satisfied / If a pale thin hand would glide / Down his dewlaps sloping / Which he pushed his nose within, / After, platforming his chin / On the palm left open.
3.To place a train alongside a station platform.
4.To include in a political platform
- Among them I scarcely can plot out one truth / Plain enough to be platformed by some voting sleuth / And paraded before the precinct polling-booth.

Uncommon· #2180

From Middle French plateforme (“a flat form”)

From plate (“flat”) (from Old French plat

From Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”)) + forme (“form”) (from Latin fōrma (“shape; figure; form”)); compare flatscape.