platform

n. raised area in a train station from which passengers board the train; basic principles of a political party; podium, pulpit; flat surface that is raised above the surrounding area

The word platform is used in several different contexts, usually referring to some kind of standing surface used to support things, give them stability, or visibility:Railway platform, an area at a train station to alight from/embark on trains or tramsPolitical platform, a list of principles held by a political partyPlatformism, in anarchist politics, the tradition of Nestor Makhno's Organizational Platform of the Libertarian CommunistsPlatform (European politics), an openly organized faction within a left-wing political partyPlatform (computing), a framework on which applications may be runPlatform (military), a capability for military actionPlatform cover, in geology, the sedimentary deposits that lie on top of the craton's platformPlatform game, a genre of video gamesPlatform (geology), the part of a continental craton that is covered by sedimentary rocksOil platform, a structure built for oil productionAutomobile platform, a set of components shared by several vehicle modelsPlatform shoe, a kind of shoe with a thick soleContinental platform, in geology, the low depth sea area next to the continentA swimming pool platform, from which bathers jumpJumping platform, naturally occurring platforms, or platforms made in an ad-hoc way for cliff jumpingPlatform (film), a 2000 film by Jia ZhangkePlatform (novel), a 2001 novel by Michel HouellebecqPlatform (TV series), a short-lived internet television series that aired in 2007
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n. platform

n. platform, podium, tribune

(v. t.)
To place on a platform.
  

(v. t.)
To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
  

(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.
  

(n.)
A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively.
  

(n.)
A place laid out after a model.
  

(n.)
A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop.
  

(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.