Category:Platform

Plat"form`, n. Etym: [plat, a. + -form: cf. F. plateforme.]

1. A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also Figuratively. [obs.] Bacon.

2. A place laid out after a model. [obs.] Lf the platform just reflects the order. Pope.

3. Any flat or horizontal surface; especially, one that is raised Above some particular level, as a framework of timber or boards Horizontally joined so as to form a roof, or a raised floor, or Portion of a floor; a landing; a dais; a stage, for speakers, Performers, or workmen; a standing place.

4. A declaration of the principles upon which a person, a sect, or a Party proposes to stand; a declared policy or system; as, the Saybrook platform; a political platform. "the platform of geneva." Hooker.

5. (naut.)

Defn: a light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over The floor of the magazine. See orlop. Platform car, a railway car Without permanent raised sides or covering; a f -- platform scale, a Weighing machine, with a flat platform on which objects are weighed.

Platform Plat"form`, v. t.

1. To place on a platform. [r.]

2. To form a plan of; to model; to lay out. [obs.] Church discipline is platformed in the bible. Milton.