1. platform - Noun
2. platform - Verb
A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively.
A place laid out after a model.
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.
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.
A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop.
To place on a platform.
To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
Source: Webster's dictionaryZionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable. Theodor Herzl
Jesus Christ will appear with me on the platform... Benny Hinn
The motherland is an altar, not a platform. José Martí
In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible. Ai Weiwei
Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth. Ernest Mandel
The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location. Franz Beckenbauer