English Dictionary

platform

/ˈplætfɔːm/

verb

(transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform / (transitive) To place on, or as if on, a platform. / (rail transport) To place a train alongside a station platform.

The company plans to platform its new product next month.

意味（1）

(transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform

[…] upon a smiling knoll platformed by Nature […]

意味（2）

(transitive) To place on, or as if on, a platform.

And this dog was satisfied / If a pale thin hand would glide / Down his dewlaps sloping / Which he pushed his nose within, / After—platforming his chin / On the palm left open.

意味（3）

(rail transport) To place a train alongside a station platform.

There he was welcomed onboard Vivarail's new three-car battery-powered train and Porterbrook's HydroFLEX hydrogen-powered train, which had been platformed side-by-side to showcase the potential of these low-carbon alternative technologies.

意味（4）

(politics, transitive) To include in a political platform

Among them I scarcely can plot out one truth / Plain enough to be platformed by some voting sleuth / And paraded before the precinct polling-booth.

意味（5）

(transitive) To publish or make visible; to provide a platform for (a topic etc.).

We want to platform the larger, unspoken issue of menstrual health and hygiene of women at work, and how we as a society need to start taking cognizance of it and start adopting measures to help our women workforce navigate it with ease.

意味（6）

(film, transitive) To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm.

But serious movies are not necessarily good movies. A studio that decides to platform a film had better be sure the film will get the necessary good reviews and audience approval. Otherwise, like United Artists' A Small Circle of Friends, which was platformed around the same time as The Elephant Man, the film will fail calamitously.

意味（7）

(obsolete, transitive) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.

I have ſaid what is meet to ſome who do not think it for the eaſe of their inconſequent Opinions, to grant that Church-Diſcipline is platform'd in the Bible, but that it is left to the diſcretion of Men.