OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4221

platform

/ˈplætfɔːm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
programa
A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
Now if the earth could be enjoyed in such a manner as every one might have provision, as it may by this platform I have offered, then will the peace of the commonwealth be preserve…
The Communist Party and its candidates stand on the following platform, which expresses the immediate interests of the majority of the population of our country.
andén • plataforma
A raised structure or other area alongside rails or a driveway alongside which vehicles stop to take in and discharge passengers.
People on the platforms / Waiting for the trains / I can hear their hearts a-beatin’ / Like pendulums swinging on chains
We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.[…]As we reached the lodge we heard the wh…
zapatos de plataforma
Ellipsis of platform shoe (“a kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles”).
Now open the album cover! How fabulous! The four of them [the Pointer Sisters] in platforms of death, tacky gowns, and "reflections of."
Walk to Shazzer's from polling station was hideous walk of shame. Also cannot wear platforms now as feet too crippled so will look short.
plataforma
A particular operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software; a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used for running other software.
That program runs on the X Window System platform.
“We used to produce our publication on the Mac, but the Wintel platform is cheaper and there are just as many applications available. So it just seemed to make sense to give up the…
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