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- Platform - n. - A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively.
- Platform - n. - A place laid out after a model.
- Platform - n. - Any flat or horizontal surface; especially, one that is raised above some particular level, as a framework of timber or boards horizontally joined so as to form a roof, or a raised floor, or portion of a floor; a landing; a dais; a stage, for speakers, performers, or workmen; a standing place.
- Platform - n. - A declaration of the principles upon which a person, a sect, or a party proposes to stand; a declared policy or system; as, the Saybrook platform; a political platform.
- Platform - n. - A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop.
- Platform - v. t. - To place on a platform.
- Platform - v. t. - To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
- Bridge - n. - Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
- Flat - n. - A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
- Maintop - n. - The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-rigged vessels.
- Orlop - n. - The lowest deck of a vessel, esp. of a ship of war, consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are coiled.
- Rostrum - n. - The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.
- Weighbridge - n. - A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.
- Drop - n. - A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself.
- Bema - n. - A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
- Dais - n. - A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests.
- Genouillere - n. - That part of a parapet which lies between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure.
- Sollar - n. - A platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft.
- Hustings - n. pl. - The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors.
- Stage - n. - The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.
- dog-legged - a. - Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole.
- Gallery - a. - A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.
- Wharf - n. - A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier.
- Halfpace - n. - A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.
- Pate - n. - A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place.
- Cage - n. - The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
- Terrace - v. - A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or pleasure.
- Footboard - n. - The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive.
- Scaffold - n. - Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.
- Crosstrees - n. pl. - Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."
- Foretop - n. - The platform at the head of the foremast.
- Stoop - n. - Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
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- H5982 עַמּוּד - 5982 עַמּוּד - עַמּוּד - - ʻammûwd - am-mood' - or עַמֻּד; from עָמַד; a column (as standing); also a stand, i.e. platform; [idiom] apiece, pillar. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H3595 כִּיּוֹר - 3595 כִּיּוֹר - כִּיּוֹר - - kîyôwr - kee-yore' - or כִּיֹּר; from the same as כּוּר; properly, something round (as excavated or bored), i.e. a chafing-dish forcoals or a caldron forcooking; hence (from similarity of form) a washbowl; also (for the same reason) a pulpit or platform; hearth, laver, pan, scaffold. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4608 מַעֲלֶה - 4608 מַעֲלֶה - מַעֲלֶה - - maʻăleh - mah-al-eh' - from עָלָה; an elevation, i.e. (concretely) acclivity or platform; abstractly (the relation or state) a rise or (figuratively) priority; ascent, before, chiefest, cliff, that goeth up, going up, hill, mounting up, stairs. - Noun Masculine - heb