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Definition: Platform |
PlatformNoun1. A raised horizontal surface; "the speaker mounted the platform". 2. A document stating the aims and principles of a political party; "their candidate simply ignored the party platform"; "they won the election even though they offered no positive program". 3. The combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system. 4. Any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons. 5. A woman's shoe with a very high thick sole. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "platform" was first used: 1550. (references) |
Etymology: Platform \Plat"form`\, noun. [Plat, adjective. + -form: compare to French plateforme.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Platform Specific computer hardware, as in the phrase "platform-independent". It may also refer to a specific combination of hardware and operating system and/or compiler, as in "this program has been ported to several platforms". It is also used to refer to support software for a particular activity, as in "This program provides a platform for research into routing protocols". (1994-12-07). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Sports & Leisure | Fixed board used in diving. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Fixed or moving surface which enables workers to deal with the carcase from different positions. Source: European Union. (references) |
General | Raised horizontal platform on which the head table is placed. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Platform in the United States, is the policy of a political or religious party. Of course the meaning is the policy on which the party stands. An American revival. Each separate principle is a plank of the platform. Queen Elizabeth, in answer to the Supplication of the Puritants (offered to the Parliament in 1506), said she "had examined the platform, and account it most prejudicial to the religion established, to her crown, her government, and her subjects." Again, the Rev. John Norris writes, in 1687, that Plato said, "God created implying that all things were formed according to His special platforms, meaning the ideas formed in the divine mind." The word has been resuscitated in North America. Lily, in 1581, says he "discovered the whole platform of the conspiracie." (Discovery of the New World, p. 115.) "Their declaration of principles- their `platform,' to use the appropriate term- was settled and published to the world. Its distinctive elements, or `planks,' are financial."- The Times. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | One-piece plate resting on four feet or two sledge-type runners to facilitate handling by fork-lift truck. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A horizontal surface raised above the floor, to give better access to machine parts or to operating devices. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| An open or closed area, usually at raised level used for the loading or unloading of vehicles. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. The place on top of a breaker where the freshly mined coal is weighed by a weigh boss just before it is dumped into the machinery b. A wooden floor on the side of a gangway at the bottom of an inclined seam, to which the coal runs by gravity, and from which it is shoveled into mine cars. c. A plank or mesh steel-covered level area at the base of a drill tripod or derrick, used as a working space in front of a drill machine around the collar of the borehole. Sometimes the platform is large enough to act as a foundation and anchor for the drill machine d. A scaffold e. A wood mat used in sets to support machinery on soft ground. Also called pontoon f. An operator's station on a large machine, particularly on rollers g. In the breaker, a flat or slightly inclined floor covered with iron plates onto which coal is run from the main screen bars and cleaned by platform workers h. Also a similar floored area in the tripod or derrick on which a laborer stands while working in a tripod or derrick. See also:flo. (references) |
Politics & International Affaires | A statement of principles and objectives espoused by a party or a candidate that is used during a campaign to win support from voters. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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A Content Management Framework is an application programming framework for creating a customized content management system.Some such systems are:
- Apache Cocoon
- Apache Mason
- Jakarta Slide
- AxKit
- Krysalis Foundation
- Midgard (also in a "Lite" edition)
- OpenACS
- Slither
- Tea Trove
- Zope
See also
List of Content Management SystemsSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Content Management Framework."
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See:
- Platform game
- Railway platform
- Oil platform
- Computers: System platform
- Politics: Political platform
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Platform."
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Platform games were a very popular genre of video games from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s, now all but forgotten by the majority of gamers and developers. Games like Tomb Raider may be seen as modern versions of platform games, and many of the old platformer franchises live on in 3D form.Tradtionally, the platform game usually scrolls right to left, with the playable character viewed from a side angle. The character climbs up and down ladders or jumps from platform to platform, fighting enemies, and often has the ability to gain powers or weapons. Later on, the term came to describe games where jumping on platforms was the main gameplay focus, as opposed to shooting being the main gameplay focus. These include games like Super Mario Brothers and Donkey Kong Country.
Chronology of significant platform games
Platform games with their own page:
- Space Panic (Universal, 1980)
- Donkey Kong (Nintendo, 1981) - first game featuring Mario
- Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo, 1985)
- Mega Man (RockMan) (Nintendo, 1987)
- Haunted Castle (Konami, 1988) - predecessor of the Castlevania series
- Super Mario 3 (Nintendo, 1990) - highest grossing console game before Pokemon
- Commander Keen (id Software, 1990) - first major PC platformer
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega, 1991)
- Mario 64 (Nintendo, 1996)
More platform games:
- Commander Keen series
- Donkey Kong Country series
- Kid Icarus
- Metroid
- MegaMan (RockMan) series
- New Zealand Story
- Prince of Persia
- Sonic the Hedgehog series
- Super Mario Brothers series
- Castlevania series
- Captain Claw
- Contra/Probotector series
- Crash Bandicoot series
- Dig Dug
- Donkey Kong
- Jak and Daxter
- Kirby series
- Ghouls 'n Ghosts series
- Lionheart
- Lode Runner
- Metroid series
- Mega Man (RockMan) series
- Ratchet and Clank
- Rayman series
- Sonic the Hedgehog series
- Super Mario Brothers series
- Wario Land series
External link
- http://dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Platform/
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A political platform is a list of the principles which a political party supports in order to appeal to the general public for the purpose of having said party's candidates voted into office. This often takes the form of a list of support for, or opposition to, controversial topics.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Political platform."
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A railway platform in the broad sense is a strip along the railway track at a train station, metro station or tram stop where passengers can board and unboard.
A tram stop in town is often in the middle of the street; usually it has as platform a refuge with a height like that of the sidewalk (ca. 10 cm), sometimes no platform at all. The latter requires extra care for the boarding and unboarding passengers and for the other traffic to avoid accidents.
- In the most primitive form it is on the same level as the track, and there is a fairly large height difference between this 'platform' and the train floor.
- Usually the platform is at an elevated level relative to the track but lower than the train floor.
- Ideally the platform is at the same level as the train floor.
- Occasionally the platform is at a higher level than the train floor. This may be the case when a train with a low floor level serves a station built for trains with a higher floor level, for example at the Dutch stations of the DB Regionalbahn Westfalen (see Enschede). Likewise, on the London Underground some stations are served by both District Line and Piccadilly Line trains, and the Piccadilly trains have lower floors.
Sometimes a tram stop is served by ordinary trams (with rather low floors) as well as metro-like light rail vehicles with higher floors, and the tram stop is provided with a dual height platform (along the track first one height, then an extension with the other height). This applies for example in Amstelveen, Netherlands.
Similarly a train station may be served by heavy-rail and light-rail vehicles (with lower floors) and also have a dual height platform. This applies for example on the RijnGouweLijn, Netherlands.
A railway platform provides access to one or two tracks; if it is fork-shaped on one or both ends the number of tracks will be more. Usually not the platforms, but the tracks are numbered. Tracks without platform access, used for through traffic, also have a number. This number may not be indicated, but it shows indirectly by the fact that in the numbering of the accessible platforms a number is skipped.
Some metro stations have screens with doors between the platforms and the tracks. They provide more safety; also they allow the heating or air conditioning on the station and the ventilation in the tunnel to be separated, thus being more efficient and effective. They have been installed in most stations of MTR, Hong Kong, see picture.
Queue lines printed on tiles on platforms to let passengers line up for the trains, the yellow arrow area is left for people on the train to alight onto the platform.
Platform screendoors installed in most MTR stations to prevent people from falling into the rails. The screendoors separate the stations from the tunnels allowing substantial energy savings on station air-conditioning and tunnel ventilation.
Fiction: platform 9 3/4 (Hogwarts Express, Harry Potter).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Railway platform."
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A system platform is the basic technology of a computer system's hardware and software that defines how a computer is operated and determines what other kinds of software can be used.
Examples
- Wintel, that is, Intel x86 or compatible hardware and Windows operating system.
- Lintel, that is, Intel x86 or compatible hardware and the Linux operating system.
- x86 with other UNIX variants such as BSD variants.
- RISC processor based machines running UNIX variants (for example, Sun computers running the Solaris operating system)
- Macintosh, custom Apple Computer hardware and MacOS operating system.
- Old home computer microcomputers.
- A mainframe with its custom operating system, say an IBM System/360.
- Supercomputer architectures
- Cluster computing
See Also
- Computing
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "System platform."
Synonyms: PlatformSynonyms: chopine (n), chopines (n), platforms (n), political platform (n), political program (n), program (n), weapons platform (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Allocution | Platform; plank; audience; (interview). |
Arena | Noun: arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater; walk, course; hustings; stare, boards; (playhouse); amphitheater; Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso, turf, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists; tiltyard, tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars; campus. |
Combatant | Man-of-war; destroyer; submarine; minesweeper; torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer; patrol torpedo boat, PT boat; torpedo-catcher, war castle, H.M.S.; battleship, battle wagon, dreadnought, line of battle ship, ship of the line; aircraft carrier, carrier. flattop; helicopter carrier; missile platform, missile boat; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; privateer. |
Government | Issue; opinion, stand, position; program, platform; party line. |
Horizontality | Plain, floor, platform, bowling green; cricket ground; croquet ground, croquet lawn; billiard table; terrace, estrade, esplanade, parterre. |
Plan | Forecast, program(me), prospectus; carte du pays; card; bill, protocol; order of the day, list of agenda; bill of fare; (food); base of operations; platform, plank, slate, ticket. |
School | Pulpit, lectern, soap box desk, reading desk, ambo, lecture room, theater, auditorium, amphitheater, forum, state, rostrum, platform, hustings, tribune. |
Speech | Speaker; Verb: spokesman; prolocutor, interlocutor; mouthpiece, Hermes; orator, oratrix, oratress; Demosthenes, Cicero; rhetorician; stump orator, platform orator; speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore. |
Support | Noun: support, ground, foundation, base, basis; terra firma; bearing, fulcrum, bait, caudex crib; point d'appui, gr/pou sto/gr, purchase footing, hold, locus standi; landing place, landing stage; stage, platform; block; rest, resting place; groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor; (basement). |
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Screenplays | A guy standing on a station platform in the rain, with a comical look on his face, because his insides have been kicked out. (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison) Each year he shoves his share of ninety million dollars under the wicket for the privilege of attending places where matched pairs of men will get up on a canvas-covered platform and commit legal assault and lawful battery (Day of the Fight; writing credit: Robert Rein) Unless you wanna go up there and get japed on an open platform. (The Warriors; writing credit: Sol Yurick; David Shaber) Excuse me sir, can you tell me where I might find Platform 9 and 3quarters (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; writing credit: Steven Kloves) | |
Lyrics | The first time you were the best platform from (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles (Sultans Of Swing; performing artist: Dire Straits) In platform double suede (Sex and Candy; performing artist: Marcy Playground) Well, I got one foot on the platform ("House of the Rising Sun"; performing artist: The Animals) With one foot on the platform (House of the Rising Sun; performing artist: The Animals) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Railway Platform (1955) Speech: Platform Posture and Appearance (1949) Moline Bag Punching Platform (1901) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Various views of the platform level of The Metro at Medical Center Station. Credit: John Crawford (photographer). |  | Tokyo subway platform and train. Credit: CDC. |
 | Metro platform and train. Washington, DC. Subway. Credit: CDC. |  | YO-3A Flying Acoustic Platform. Credit: NASA. |
 | Erecting a portable tide gauge platform at Kettle Cove Glendon Boothe on right Photo #1 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Microwave navigation system - shore installation on tower Tower merely a platform and not loaded A line-of-sight system -- the higher the tower, the further the reception Tested on SOSBEE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | An osprey - Pandion haliaetus - landing on a nesting platform on St. George's Island. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | An outbound ship passes under Verrazano Narrows Bridge as a NOAA modified catamaran takes mobile current profiles with an acoustic data collection platform (ADCP). Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Lieutenant Commander Harley Nygren on the "hero platform." Taking a Nansen cast to determine water temperatures and density. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Post restoration, this image shows the cell that did not perform well after being planted with Spartina alterniflora. The platform was considered too high to promote colonization of Spartina. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| "Swimming Platform" by Paige Foster Commentary: "Wood and concrete swimming platform at a nearby lake." | "Bath platform" by Ibon San Martin Commentary: "Bath platform." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Returning up the platform, I came upon Sylvie alone |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Stephen passed out on to the wide platform above the steps and was conscious of the caress of mild evening air. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Dancing had not formally started, but now Willie climbed onto the platform. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A patient having a PET scan rests on a long low platform as the scanner tracks the flow of glucose or oxygen. (references) | |
Business | Polish users prefer engineering software running on the PC platform. (references) | |
In this regards IP will serve as a platform for future multimedia services. (references) | ||
The Alliance 90/The Greens (Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen), which has an environmentalist, pacifist platform. (references) | ||
Children | Moldova | While not technically illegal, such charges run counter to the educational platform of the Government and result in many children being kept at home by their parents. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Macedonia | A few organizations were denied registration, including the DPA--one of the leading ethnic-Albanian parties--which was denied registration under that name because the court assessed that its political platform was contrary to the Constitution. (references) |
Egypt | All party newspapers are required by law to reflect the platform of their parties. (references) | |
Economic History | South Africa | One such project currently under a consultancy study is the La Mercy Airport and Logistics Platform in Kwazulu-Natal. (references) |
Lebanon | An American-Lebanese Chamber of Commerce was established in Lebanon in 1999. The AmCham promotes business between the U.S. and Lebanon and serves as a platform for contacts between business executives. (references) | |
Mauritius | In the last couple of years, MFA also embarked into a development project aimed at the creation of a regional electronic commerce platform in Mauritius. (references) | |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | National groups that promote human rights include: The Amani Trust; the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP); the Legal Resources Foundation; Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights; the Bulawayo Legal Projects Centre (BLPC); the NCA; the Southern African Foundation of the Disabled; the Child and the Law Project; the Musasa Project; the Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association; the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists; the Women's Action Group; Women and Law in Southern Africa; Women in Law and Development in Africa; Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network; Women and AIDS Support Network; the Media Institute of Southern Africa; Zimcet; ZimRights; Transparency International-Zimbabwe; and the Zimbabwe Liberators Platform. (references) |
Haiti | Organizations such as the NCHR, the Platform of Haitian Human Rights Organizations, the Human Rights Fund, and the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights reported receiving repeated threats, most of them anonymous. (references) | |
Haiti | Human rights organizations such as the National Coalition for Haitian Rights (NCHR) and the Platform of Haitian Human Rights Organizations criticized this address as opening the door to summary executions of suspected criminals and others by the population and by the police. (references) | |
Political Economy | Botswana | The divisions among the opposition parties allowed the BDP to win additional seats in 1999, although its percentage of the popular vote remained largely unchanged from 1994. In addition, the BNF's propensity to focus more on criticism of BDP policies rather than on articulating its own platform worked to the party's disadvantage in the 1999 general elections campaign. (references) |
Finland | This interest is reflected in the U.S. Northern European Initiative (NEI) and the Finnish-inspired EU Northern Dimension program, which was an integral part of the Finnish EU Presidency platform from July through December 1999. (references) | |
Poland | Civic Platform (PO): a movement, not formally registered as a political party. (references) | |
Political Rights | Burundi | The Transitional Political Platform endorses in general terms the restoration of democracy and correction of the ethnic imbalance within the army and the judicial system. (references) |
Burundi | The National Assembly adopted the Transitional Constitutional Act and a Transitional Political Platform. (references) | |
Women | Uruguay | There are a number of active women's rights groups, and many of their activities remained centered on followup to the platform of action of the 1995 U.N. Conference on Women. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CLIO, n. One of the nine Muses. Clio's function was to preside over history -- which she did with great dignity, many of the prominent citizens of Athens occupying seats on the platform, the meetings being addressed by Messrs. Xenophon, Herodotus and other popular speakers. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Art Linkletter | Nope. I love the lecture platform. I love the question and answers. It's there. You're walking on a rope again. |
Harry Belafonte | If I was them, I would use the platform to speak out against the ill-advised policies of the administration. I would go as far as inviting to be fired, if that's what happens. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | The incoming Congress should promptly fulfill the promise of the Republican platform and pass a proper postal savings bank bill. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | Upon this as a platform of purpose and of action we can stand together. |
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| "Platform" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.88% of the time. "Platform" is used about 2,562 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.88% | 2,559 | 3,562 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.12% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,562 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "platform": aerial platform ♦ airdrop platform ♦ at which platform ♦ common Hardware Reference Platform ♦ Dialogic Telco platform ♦ diving platform ♦ drilling platform ♦ elevating platform ♦ foldaway platform ♦ hooking platform ♦ jackup drilling platform ♦ Java 2 Platform ♦ landing platform ♦ launching platform ♦ main engine manoeuvring platform ♦ moving platform ♦ open Telecom Platform ♦ operating platform ♦ operator's control platform ♦ platform based container open sided ♦ platform bed ♦ platform blade ♦ platform body ♦ platform car ♦ platform drop ♦ platform for Internet Content Selection ♦ platform Independent Graphical User Interface ♦ platform party ♦ platform reef ♦ platform rocker ♦ platform scale ♦ platform shoe ♦ platform shoes ♦ platform sole ♦ platform ticket ♦ platform truck ♦ political platform ♦ powerpc Platform ♦ powerpc Reference Platform ♦ production platform ♦ racking platform ♦ sinking platform ♦ sleeping platform ♦ South Thames Exploitation Platform ♦ space platform ♦ telescopic platform ♦ the platform ♦ Traversing platform ♦ weapons platform. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "platform": platform-based, platform-boots, platform-building, platform-committee, platform-heeled, platform-independent, platform-less, platform-mounted, platform-sole, platform-soled, platform-specific, platform-type. | |
Ending with "platform": multi-platform. | |
Containing "platform": climber-turned-platform-builder. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
platform bed | 2,094 | platform high heel | 39 |
platform shoes | 760 | modern platform bed | 39 |
platform truck | 500 | boat swim platform | 36 |
platform boot | 454 | platform bed storage | 32 |
platform lift | 431 | wood platform bed | 30 |
platform | 220 | platform diving | 28 |
platform cart | 102 | platform bed drawers | 27 |
platform sandal | 97 | metal platform bed | 24 |
platform bed frame | 94 | republican party platform | 24 |
platform scale | 93 | cross platform | 24 |
swim platform | 78 | republican platform | 23 |
platform bed plan | 77 | king platform bed | 23 |
platform heel | 73 | democratic party platform | 23 |
logic platform | 69 | democratic platform | 23 |
platform bed contemporary | 65 | oil platform | 22 |
platform game | 65 | flip flop platform | 21 |
build a platform bed | 59 | free game platform | 21 |
platform sneaker | 56 | european platform bed | 20 |
queen platform bed | 52 | building platform bed | 20 |
man platform shoes | 40 | e learning platform | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "platform"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | perron (quay, wharf), leiding (stage, steering), beginselverklaring (declaration, declaration of policy, programme, statement, statement of policy). (various references) | |
Albanian | program (agenda, plan, prog, program, programme, schedule, software), podium (dais, podium), platformë (apron, chase, emplacement, stage), supertakë, shesh (circus, course, court, esplanade, field, ground, place, Square, table). (various references) | |
Arabic | منصة (bench, dais, dispatch box, foretop, gallery, podium, ringside, rostrum, stage, staging, stand, trestle, tribune), منبسط الدرج, منبر (rostrum, stand, tribune), رصيف محطة القطار, برنامج (agenda, bill, card, emission, plan, program, programme, schedule, scheme). (various references) | |
Bavarian | perron. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | трибуна (grandstand, rostrum, stand), естрада (bandsman, bandstand, estrade, stage, stand), програма (card, line up, playbill, program, programme, prospectus, routine, schedule, scheme, show, timetable), подиум (dais, podium, rostrum, stage), перон (apron), платформен, платформа (dais, deck, decking, dray, flatcar, lorry, lurry, pulpit, truck). (various references) | |
Catalan | l'andana (the platform). (various references) | |
Chinese | 臺 (desk, stage, station), 檯 (desk), 平臺 (terrace), 平台 (platforms), 主席臺 (rostrum). (various references) | |
Czech | nástupištì. (various references) | |
Danish | perron (quay, railway platform, wharf), kaj (quay, wharf). (various references) | |
Dutch | podium (podium, stage), tribune (podium, rostrum, speaker's platform, stage), platform (apron, floor, formation, operator's platform, ramp), perron (quay, wharf), leiding (direction, guide, stage, steering). (various references) | |
Esperanto | podio (podium), platformo, perono (railway platform), vagonenira vestiblo, kajo (platform gate, quay, wharf), estrado (stage). (various references) | |
Faeroese | pallur (quay, wharf), jarnbreytarpallur (quay, wharf), hjalli (railway platform, terrace), atløgubryggja (quay, wharf). (various references) | |
Finnish | laituri (burn one's boats, jetty, pier, quay, wharf, wharf landing-stage). (various references) | |
French | quai, estrade, tenue, plate-forme (operating platform, operator's control platform). (various references) | |
Frisian | program (declaration of policy, programme, statement of policy), kaai (key, quay, wharf, wrench). (various references) | |
German | Bahnsteig (quay, railway platform, wharf), Podium (dais, landing, podium, rostrum, stage, stand), Plattform (basis), Podest (pedestal, podium), Bühne (ramp, scene, stage, theater, theatre). (various references) | |
Greek | εξέδρα (dais, grandstand, podium, rostrum, stage, stand), πλατφόρμα (deck, loading bank, raft). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עומד (about to, going to, intending, post, stand, stand up, standing, standing place), דוכן (booth, counter, dais, stand, table), במה (forum, pulpit, stage), בימה (dais, pulpit, stage). (various references) | |
Hungarian | politikai program (party platform), pódium (dais, podium, stand), emelvény (dais, hustings, mount, podium, scaffold, stage, stand). (various references) | |
Icelandic | pallur (railway platform), bryggja (quay, wharf). (various references) | |
Indonesian | peron, panggung (bandstand, staging, stillage), balkon (balcony), anjung (annex, axtension, ship's bridge). (various references) | |
Irish | ardán. (various references) | |
Italian | piattaforma (dais, Dolly, faceplate, quay, shelf, wharf), palco (box, dais, flooring, stage, stand), marciapiede (pavement, sidewalk), banchina (pier, quay, quayside, wharf). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 高座 (pulpit, stage, upper seat), 雲台 , プラスチック爆弾 (Philips head screwdriverdriver), placebo, plasma, plasma display, plasmid, plastic explosive, platanus, plateau, platina paper, platinum, platonic, Platonic love, plus-minus, praseodymium), ホーミング魚雷 (family doctor, family physician, get home, goal reached, HA, hall, Hands up!, HI, hold, Hold up!, holding, hole, hole in one, hole out, Holmes, home, home automation, home banking, home bar, home comedy, home cooking, home drama, home economics, home electronics, home freezing, home game, home ground, home helper, home improvement, home page, home plate, home reservation, home run, home run derby, home security system, home shopping, home team, home terminal, home trade, home-directory, homemade, homemaker, homeroom, homesick, homespun, homestay, homestretch, homework, homing torpedo, horn, house dress, party, plain dress for everyday wear, service that goes to clients' homes to give beauty treatments, soap opera, stealing home in baseball, wheel, wheel cap, whip, whipped cream, whistle), 演壇 (rostrum), 教壇 , 歩廊 (corridor, gallery, passageway), 乗降場 , 壇 (mandala, podium, rostrum). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | プラットフォーム , プラットホーム , ホーム (home), きょうだん (assassin's bullet, assassin's plot, religious organization), うんだい, ほろう (corridor, gallery, passageway), こうざ (account, chair, course, crouching, lectureship, pulpit, stage, upper seat), じょうこうじょう, えんだん (engagement, marriage proposal, rostrum, round shot, smoke bomb), だん (body, company, failure, flight of steps, grade, group, level, mandala, party, podium, rank, rostrum, stair, step, troupe). (various references) | |
Korean | 플래트홈 (platforms). (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | quai. (various references) | |
Malay | podium (podium), rencana (declaration of policy, programme, statement of policy), acara (declaration of policy, programme, statement of policy). (various references) | |
Manx | claare obbyr (agenda), ardan (stage, stand). (various references) | |
Norwegian | perrong (quay, railway platform, wharf), kai (quay, wharf). (various references) | |
Papiamen | programa (declaration of policy, programme, statement of policy), podium (podium), waf (quay, wharf). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atformplay.(various references) | |
Polish | program (declaration of policy, programme, statement of policy), peron (quay, wharf). (various references) | |
Portuguese | plataforma (dais, deck, footboard, gallery, quay, rampart, stand, terrace, wharf), estrado (bed frame, grandstand, podium, stage), tablado (grandstand, scaffold, scaffolding, stage), cais (bund, pier, quay, quayside, wharf, wharfage). (various references) | |
Romanian | peron (perron, quay, wharf). (various references) | |
Russian | платформа (stage). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | platforma (pad, pallet, ramp), peron, govornica (hustings, pulpit, rostrum, stump). (various references) | |
Spanish | plataforma (bench, block, cradle, ledge, stage), andén (quay, shoulder, wharf), programa (bill, declaration of policy, plan, playbill, program, programing, programme, programming, schedule, scheme, show, software, statement of policy, timetable), estrado (bandstand, bench, dais, podium, stage). (various references) | |
Sranan | syoro (bank, border, edge, quay, shore, wharf). (various references) | |
Swedish | plattform (cradle, dais, stage, staging, vestibule), läktare (flat, gallery, grandstand, grand-stand, lighter, rood loft, stand), kateder (master`s desk, master's desk, pulpit, rostrum). (various references) | |
Turkish | program (card, declaration of policy, program, programme, routine, schedule, statement of policy, timetable), podyum (catwalk, dais, podium), plato (plateau, step, tableland), platform (podium, Tribune), parti programı (keynote, party doctrine, ticket), yayla (plateau, tableland, wold), tartışma ortamı, taraça (belvedere, gazebo, patio, Piazza, porch, terrace), sahanlık (landing, stairhead, well), rampa (ascent, boarding, gantry, gantry scaffold, gauntry, launching pad, launching platform, pad, raise, ramp), düzlük (esplanade, evenness, Fen, flat, flatness, floor, level, plain, plainness, straight), apartman topuk (platform sole). (various references) | |
