English > platform: 5 senses > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | A raised horizontal surface. |
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| Example | "the speaker mounted the platform" |
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| Narrower | auction block, block | A platform from which an auctioneer sells |
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| bandstand, outdoor stage, stand | A platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air |
| catwalk | Narrow platform extending out into an auditorium |
| crow's nest | platform for a lookout at or near the top of a mast |
| dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, ambo, stump, soapbox | A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it |
| deck | Any of various platforms built into a vessel |
| dock, loading dock | A platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded |
| fly gallery, fly floor | A narrow raised platform at the side of a stage in a theater |
| footboard | A narrow platform on which to stand or brace the feet |
| footplate | The platform in the cab of a locomotive on which the engineer stands to operate the controls |
| foretop | A platform at the head of a foremast |
| landing | An intermediate platform in a staircase |
| landing stage | platform from which passengers and cargo can be (un)loaded |
| launching pad, launchpad, launch pad, launch area, pad | A platform from which rockets or space craft are launched |
| monkey bridge | A high narrow platform above a deck or in an engine room or boiler room |
| pallet | A portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it |
| pier, wharf, wharfage, dock | A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles |
| ring | A platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle |
| runway | A narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc. |
| scaffold | A platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded) |
| stage | A large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience |
| stage, microscope stage | A small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination |
| stairhead | platform at the top of a staircase |
| top | platform surrounding the head of a lower mast |
| turntable | A circular horizontal platform that rotates a phonograph record while it is being played |
| turntable | A rotatable platform with a track |
| Broader | horizontal surface, level | A flat surface at right angles to a plumb line |
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| Spanish | entarimado, plataforma, tarima |
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| Catalan | entarimat, plataforma, tarima |
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