Definition of Platforms

1. Noun. (plural of platform) ¹

2. Noun. (plurale tantum) platform shoes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Platforms

1. platform [n] - See also: platform

Lexicographical Neighbors of Platforms

platey
platform
platform bed
platform boot
platform boots
platform game
platform games
platform rocker
platform screen door
platform shoe
platform shoes
platformed
platformer
platformers
platforming
platforms (current term)
plathelminth
plathelminthes
plathelminths
platier
platies
platiest
platina
platinas
platinate
platinates
platinating
plating
plating carrier
platings

Literary usage of Platforms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1915)
"platforms on new cars, how constructed.—All street surface railroad passenger cars purchased, built or rebuilt after the first day of December, ..."

2. The Tribune Almanac and Political Register by Horace Greeley (1901)
"-321 Party platforms ..- 87 Population - « 409 State officials 309 Flowers of States .. 397 Foreign coins 258-280 Foreign Embassies and Legations In U. S ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Carriers: As Administered in the Courts of the by Robert Hutchinson, Jacob Scott Matthews, William Frederick Dickinson (1906)
"Same subject—Passengers must use platforms intended for them.—This duty of a railway company to provide safe and suitable platforms creates the reciprocal ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"gates may, if desired, be placed beneath the platforms; and also an arrangement whereby the gates may be so hinged as to lie against the body of the car ..."

5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"They stood upon platforms that in one particular had no essential difference whatever, platforms that have been proclaimed ever since the year 1861 to have ..."

6. Operation Desert Storm: Evaluation of the Air Campaign by Kwai-Cheung Chan (1998)
"The Navy platforms did contribute a considerable WOE against KBX targets. ... Relative to other platforms, the F-16 was a predominant force against KBX ..."

7. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1915)
"platforms on new cars, how constructed.—All street surface railroad passenger cars purchased, built or rebuilt after the first day of December, ..."

8. The Tribune Almanac and Political Register by Horace Greeley (1901)
"-321 Party platforms ..- 87 Population - « 409 State officials 309 Flowers of States .. 397 Foreign coins 258-280 Foreign Embassies and Legations In U. S ..."

9. A Treatise on the Law of Carriers: As Administered in the Courts of the by Robert Hutchinson, Jacob Scott Matthews, William Frederick Dickinson (1906)
"Same subject—Passengers must use platforms intended for them.—This duty of a railway company to provide safe and suitable platforms creates the reciprocal ..."

10. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"gates may, if desired, be placed beneath the platforms; and also an arrangement whereby the gates may be so hinged as to lie against the body of the car ..."

11. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"They stood upon platforms that in one particular had no essential difference whatever, platforms that have been proclaimed ever since the year 1861 to have ..."

12. Operation Desert Storm: Evaluation of the Air Campaign by Kwai-Cheung Chan (1998)
"The Navy platforms did contribute a considerable WOE against KBX targets. ... Relative to other platforms, the F-16 was a predominant force against KBX ..."

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