• (RP) IPA: /ˈplætfɔːm/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈplætfɔɹm/

platform (plural platforms)

1. A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.

   Synonyms: podium

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; a tribune.

   This new talk show will give a platform to everyday men and women.

   Synonyms: podium

4. A kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles.
5. (figurative) Something that allows an enterprise to advance; a foundation or stage.
6. (automobiles) A set of components shared by several vehicle models.
7. (computing) A computer system used to deliver services to clients; a solution
8. (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 the X Window System platform.

9. (geology) A flat expanse of rock, often the result of wave erosion.
10. (nautical) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
11. (politics) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
12. (travel) A raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train, metro etc.
13. (obsolete) A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.

• dais

• French: scène, podium
• German: Plattform, Podest
• Italian: piattaforma
• Portuguese: plataforma
• Russian: помо́ст

• German: Plattform

• Portuguese: salto plataforma
• Russian: платфо́рма

• French: plateforme
• German: Plattform
• Italian: piattaforma
• Portuguese: plataforma
• Russian: платфо́рма
• Spanish: plataforma

• German: Programm, Parteiprogramm, Grundsatzprogramm
• Portuguese: plataforma
• Russian: платфо́рма

• French: quai
• German: Bahnsteig, Perron (Austria, Switzerland, dated in Germany)
• Italian: binario
• Portuguese: plataforma
• Russian: платфо́рма
• Spanish: andén, plataforma

• Portuguese: plataforma

platform (platforms, present participle platforming; past and past participle platformed)

1. (transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform
2. (transitive) To place on, or as if on, a platform.
   • , To Flush, My Dog

     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. (obsolete, transitive) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
   • 1642, John Milton, The reaſon of Church-Government urg'd againſt Prelaty, London; reprinted in A Complete Collection of the Hiſtorical, Political, and Miſcellaneous Works of John Milton, […] , volume I, Amsterdam, 1698, page 202 ↗:

     I have ſaid what is meet to ſome who do not think it for the eaſe of their inconſequent Opinions, to grant that Church-Diſcipline is platform'd in the Bible, but that it is left to the diſcretion of Men.

4. (politics, transitive) To include in a political platform