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Any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons
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platform
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "plan of action, scheme, design," from Middle French plateforme , platte fourme , literally "flat form," from Old French plat "flat" (see plateau (n.)) + forme "form" (see form (n.)). The literal sense of "raised, level surface" in English is first ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an observation deck/platform/tower (= a structure that is built in order to observe something ) ▪ The army built an observation tower on the top of the building. drilling platform platform game platform shoes (= with ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Halfpace \Half"pace`\ (-p[=a]s`), n. (Arch.) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace . Note: This term and quarterpace are rare or unknown in the United States, platform ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Platforms , in European politics, are openly organized political factions within left-wing political parties . Examples include the Republican Communist Network, the Workers Unity Platform and the Solidarity Tendency, platforms within the Scottish Socialist ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a raised horizontal surface; "the speaker mounted the platform" 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" ...
Usage examples of platform.
Kearney had to stand aside to allow the baritone and his accompanist to pass up to the platform.
Mrs Kearney had to stand aside to allow the baritone and his accompanist to pass up to the platform.
Chairman read from the statement yesterday that the charge against these men was disloyalty, and that they had affiliated themselves with a party whose platform and program call for an overthrow of this Government by violence, he added that we will prove this beyond the shadow of a doubt.
It is proposed to instruct the coast-guard by means of ship platform batteries of one gun each, constructed exactly similar to the ports of a man-of-war, placed in a position in each district convenient for the drill of fifty men, and in a situation in which it may be rendered available for defence, as well as affording a range to sea for practice.
In the very first one of these joint discussions between Senator Douglas and myself, Senator Douglas, without alluding at all to these platforms, or any one of them, of which I have spoken, attempted to hold me responsible for a set of resolutions passed long before the meeting of either one of these conventions of which I have spoken.
After Dorselblad had pranced up and down a platform with a belligerently waving codpiece, after he had exhorted, demanded and anathematized, Clarissima Strunt would come forward.
Renaissance anatomist Andreas Vesalius, one enthusiastic spectator at a crowded Vesalius dissection, bent on a better view, leaned too far out and tumbled from his bench to the dissecting platform below.
It deals with applets - small bits of software - and links different computer platforms by means of software.
You got a better appreciation of the station, which is what the queen calls the whole shell, when you stood upon the transfer platform this morning.
In similar manner from the full weight platform they arrived in the bright white.
While the midget took her bows, Sir John lifted the dwarf horse off the platform and, unnoticed by the applauding crowd, set a sturdy wooden box up there behind Cricket and sprinkled on it some of his lycopodium.
It is somewhat interesting to compare the platform to which the Democrats assented in 1872 with any they had ever before adopted, or with the record of their senators and representatives in Congress upon all the public questions at issue during the years immediately preceding the Convention.
Navy is in your hands, but you must take command of their automated submerged platform, the Snare.
My first act as Sheriff will be to install, on the courthouse lawn, a bastinado platform and a set of stocks -- in order to punish dishonest dope dealers in a proper public fashion.
He saw the clus ter of cypress on the batture, the floating wooden platform of the landing at Twelve-Mile Point.