platform

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Recorded since 1550, from Middle French plate-forme, literally "flat form", from Middle French plate "flat" (from Old French plat, of uncertain origin) + forme "form" (from Latin forma)

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Singular
platform

Plural
platforms

platform (plural platforms)

  1. A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
  2. (politics) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
  3. A raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train, metro etc.
  4. (automotive) A set of components shared by several vehicle models.
  5. (computing) 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.
  6. A high shoe type with an extra layer between the inner- and outer soles

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Infinitive
to platform

Third person singular
platforms

Simple past
platformed

Past participle
platformed

Present participle
platforming

to platform (third-person singular simple present platforms, present participle platforming, simple past and past participle platformed)

  1. (transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform
    • 1885, Frances Elliot, The Diary of an Idle Woman in Sicily[1], page 192:
      [] upon a smiling knoll platformed by Nature []
  2. (politics) (transitive) To include in a political platform
    • 1955, Amy Lowell, Complete Poetical Works[2], page 408:
      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.

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Probably from English (cfr. supra), or directly from French

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platform n. (plural platformen, diminutive platformpje, diminutive plural platformpjes)

  1. A platform, flat surface, notably a dais or stage
  2. A political platform, (electoral) program
  3. A plateau
  4. A flat roof
  5. (obsolete) A ground-plan

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