Platform

Definition

platform /'plætfↄ:m/ n ၁။ စင္ျမင့္။ Coming onto the platform now is tonight's conductor Jane Glover. ❍ appear on the same platform/ share a platform with sb (ie make speeches, etc at the same public meeting) ❍ Your questions will be answered from the platform. ၂။ ရထားစႀကႍ။ Which platform does the Brighton train arrive/ depart from? ❍ Your train is waiting at platform 5. ၃။ (usu sing ) ( Brit ) ဘတ္စကား ခရီးသည္အတက္အဆင္း ေျခနင္းခံု။ No standing on the platform. ၄။ (ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဝင္ရာ၌) ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီတစ္ခုက ေၾကညာထားေသာ မူဝါဒလမ္းစဥ္။ fight the election/ come to power on a platform of economic reform. ၅။ စက္ယႏၲရား ဆင္ထားရာ စင္ျမင့္။ a mobile launch platform (eg for rockets) ❍ an oil platform. ၆။ ထူထူျမင့္ျမင့္ ႐ႉးဖိနပ္ခံု။ platform soles/ shoes.

Examples

1. There is a viewing platform where visitors can see the waterfall.
2. The two candidates shared a platform for the question and answer session.
3. The train to Brussels will depart from platform 3.
4. Radio phone-ins provide a platform for people with strong opinions.
5. [platform for] : The funding would provide a platform for growth and development.
6. He has openly criticized Labour’s election platform.
7. Can the project be run on a personal computer platform?