platform /platˈförm/

1. A raised floor for speakers, musicians, etc
2. A raised pavement alongside the track in a railway station giving access to trains
3. A position prepared for mounting a gun
4. Any raised level surface
5. A terrace
6. A flooring
7. A plateau
8. A deck for a temporary or special purpose
9. A floating installation usu moored to the seabed, for drilling for oil, marine research, etc
10. Flooring outside an inner entrance to some buses, trams, or sometimes railway carriages
11. A site
12. A platform shoe or boot
13. The thick heavy sole of such a shoe or boot
14. A basis
15. The publicly declared principles and intentions of a political party, taken as forming the basis of its policies
16. Any situation giving one access to an audience, that one can exploit as an opportunity for promoting one's views
17. The people occupying the platform at a meeting, etc
18. Public speaking or discussion (figurative)
19. A medium for discussion
20. A scheme of church government or of administrative policy
21. A scheme, device, plan of action (Shakespeare)
22. The hardware and/or software for a system (computing)
23. A ground-plan (obsolete)
24. A plane figure or surface (obsolete)

1. On, relating to, admitting to, etc, a platform
2. (of shoes, boots, etc) having a very thick sole (a platform sole), giving extra height

1. To provide with a platform
2. To sketch, plan
3. To place on, or as if on, a platform

To speak or appear on a platform

platform game noun

A computer game in which players must move around a series of platforms, usu collecting objects and fighting enemies as they go

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