platform
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
film
government
media
politics
rail-transport
railways
television
transport
Etymology: From Middle French plateforme (“a flat form”), from plate (“flat”) (from Old French plat, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”)) + forme (“form”) (from Latin fōrma (“shape; figure; form”)); compare flatscape.
Inflected forms:
form: platforms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: platforming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: platformed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: platformed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To furnish with or shape into a platform
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] upon a smiling knoll platformed by Nature […]
gloss: To place on, or as if on, a platform.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And this dog was satisfied / If a pale thin hand would glide / Down his dewlaps sloping / Which he pushed his nose within, / After—platforming his chin / On the palm left open.
gloss: To place a train alongside a station platform.
pos: verb
examples: There he was welcomed onboard Vivarail's new three-car battery-powered train and Porterbrook's HydroFLEX hydrogen-powered train, which had been platformed side-by-side to showcase the potential of these low-carbon alternative technologies.
gloss: To include in a political platform
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Among them I scarcely can plot out one truth / Plain enough to be platformed by some voting sleuth / And paraded before the precinct polling-booth.
gloss: To publish or make visible; to provide a platform for (a topic etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We want to platform the larger, unspoken issue of menstrual health and hygiene of women at work, and how we as a society need to start taking cognizance of it and start adopting measures to help our women workforce navigate it with ease.
If Buckley were still alive today, could a university get away with platforming him in a debate?
Half of the lawsuits against Pina also named Envy (real name: Raashaun Casey), blaming the DJ for platforming Pina on The Breakfast Club and social media.
“The ‘how dare you platform someone you disagree with’ era is over. Fuck that.”
gloss: To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But serious movies are not necessarily good movies. A studio that decides to platform a film had better be sure the film will get the necessary good reviews and audience approval. Otherwise, like United Artists' "A Small Circle of Friends," which was platformed around the same time as "The Elephant Man," the film will fail calamitously.
Each of these films will be "platformed," the industry term to describe the strategy of opening a movie first in a limited number of theaters to give it an aura of exclusivity, then having its appeal build through word of mouth.
gloss: To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: I have ſaid what is meet to ſome who do not think it for the eaſe of their inconſequent Opinions, to grant that Church-Diſcipline is platform'd in the Bible, but that it is left to the diſcretion of Men.
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