| 单词 | platform |
| 释义 | platform (once / 189 pages) 1n 2n 3n 4n A platform is any raised surface you can stand on, like the platform beside subway tracks where you wait for the train to arrive. When you're standing on something that's higher than the surrounding area, you can call it a platform, like a train platform or a viewing platform at a historic site. A platform is also the official stance of a politician or a political group, like a platform of improving public education. Also, there is the footwear known as a platform shoe, which has a very thick sole which makes the wearer appear taller, like standing on a platform. WORD FAMILYplatform: platforms USAGE EXAMPLES“Happy New Year!” shouts an older man swigging from a plastic bottle of vodka on the subway platform. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The company is also marketing a package that executives say is the only off-the-shelf hardware and software platform for builders of self-driving cars available today. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) “It provides my daughter a platform to learn how to volunteer, serve and help.” Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n a raised horizontal surface the speaker mounted the platform Hypo|Hyper auction block, block a platform from which an auctioneer sells bandstand, outdoor stage, standa platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air catwalknarrow platform extending out into an auditorium crow's nestplatform for a lookout at or near the top of a mast ambo, dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox, stumpa platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it deckany of various platforms built into a vessel dock, loading docka platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded fly floor, fly gallerya narrow raised platform at the side of a stage in a theater; stagehands can work the ropes controlling equipment in the flies footboarda narrow platform on which to stand or brace the feet footplatethe platform in the cab of a locomotive on which the engineer stands to operate the controls foretopa platform at the head of a foremast landingan intermediate platform in a staircase landing stageplatform from which passengers and cargo can be (un)loaded launch area, launch pad, launching pad, launchpad, pada platform from which rockets or space craft are launched monkey bridgea high narrow platform above a deck or in an engine room or boiler room palleta portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it dock, pier, wharf, wharfagea platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats ringa platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle runwaya narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc. scaffolda platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded) stagea large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience microscope stage, stagea small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination stairheadplatform at the top of a staircase topplatform surrounding the head of a lower mast turntablea circular horizontal platform that rotates a phonograph record while it is being played turntablea rotatable platform with a track; used to turn locomotives and cars afterdecka deck abaft of midships boxing ring, prize ringa square ring where boxers fight downstagethe front half of the stage (as seen from the audience) flight deck, landing deckthe upper deck of an aircraft carrier; used as a runway foredeckthe deck between the bridge and the forecastle gun deckformerly any deck other than the weather deck having cannons from end to end awning deck, hurricane deck, hurricane roof, promenade decka deck at the top of a passenger ship leveea pier that provides a landing place on a river lido deckan open deck including a swimming pool lower deck, third deckthe deck below the main deck main deck, second deckthe uppermost sheltered deck that runs the entire length of a large vessel mise en scene, setting, stage settingarrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted fourth deck, orlop, orlop deckthe fourth or lowest deck apron, forestage, prosceniumthe part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain) quarterdeckthe stern area of a ship's upper deck quaywharf usually built parallel to the shoreline running boarda narrow footboard serving as a step beneath the doors of some old cars sumo ringthe circular ring in which Sumo wrestlers compete theater stage, theatre stagea stage in a theater on which actors can perform upper decka higher deck backstage, offstage, winga stage area out of sight of the audience wrestling ringa square ring in which wrestlers compete horizontal surface, level a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line 2n a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole 2Syn|Hyper chopine shoe footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material n any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper weapons platform gun enclosure, gun turret, turret a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation construction, structure a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts n a document stating the aims and principles of a political party 4their candidate simply ignored the party platform Syn|Hyper political platform, political program, program document, papers, written document writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) n the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system Hyper ADP system, ADPS, automatic data processing system, computer system, computing system a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage |
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