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# platform

noun (a platform, platforms)

«platform» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A platform is the raised flat area next to the tracks at a railway station where people wait for and get on trains. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platform/#m1)
2. A platform is any raised flat surface where people stand, like a stage for speakers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platform/#m2)
3. In computers, a platform is a system that programs or games run on, or a website where people share things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platform/#m3)
4. Platform shoes have very thick soles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platform/#m4)

### In the lessons

In everyday life: «The train leaves from platform 4.» In video games, a platform is a ledge you jump between (platform games). In safety: stand behind the yellow line on a platform and mind the gap. In stories: Harry Potter's Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. Phrases: on the platform, platform number, oil platform, diving platform.

### Examples

- Our train leaves from platform 2. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platform/#x1)
- Stand behind the yellow line on the platform. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platform/#x2)
- The singer stood on a platform so everyone could see her. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platform/#x3)
- We waited on the cold platform for twenty minutes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platform/#x4)
- The diver jumped from the high platform. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platform/#x5)
- The game runs on every platform. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platform/#x6)
- An oil platform stands in the sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platform/#x7)
- Mind the gap between the train and the platform. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platform/#x8)
- Then the monkey and the hare both hopped out, quickly and nimbly, to the wrestling platform. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platform/#x9)

### Note

Countable: one platform, two platforms. Stress on the first part: PLAT-form. In the UK and Australia «platform» is used for trains; Americans also say «track» (Track 5).

## In Jewish tradition

The "platform" is a raised stand for a speaker or a king. Ezra and Nehemiah have Levites stand on one to lead the people in prayer, and Athaliah's story shows the king standing on one by the pillar.

**Interpretation.** Tradition sees the Levites' platform as a place where teaching and public prayer began, and the king's stand as a sign of royal place in the Temple court.

### Examples

- Then stood up upon the platform of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God. (Writings NEH.9.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/platform/#x1)
- And she looked, and, behold, the king stood on the platform, as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets. (Prophets 2KI.11.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/platform/#x2)

### Note

Countable: one platform, two platforms. Stress on the first part: PLAT-form. In the UK and Australia «platform» is used for trains; Americans also say «track» (Track 5).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «platform» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/platform/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«platform» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/platform.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «platform» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/platform/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«platform» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/platform.html) on Mova free.