English Dictionary

platform

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈplætfɔːm/

動詞

他動詞 廃用

(transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform / (transitive) To place on, or as if on, a platform. / (rail transport) To place a train alongside a station platform.

日本語の意味

プラットフォームとして提供・整備する、またはプラットフォーム状に形作る / プラットフォーム上に配置する、またはプラットフォームのように置く / 鉄道運行の場合、列車を駅のホームに沿って配置する

The crew decided to platform the hillside to create a flat area for the festival tents.

クルーは祭り用のテントのために斜面を整地して平らな場所を作ることにした。

意味（1）

(transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform

[…] upon a smiling knoll platformed by Nature […]

意味（2）

(transitive) To place on, or as if on, a platform.

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.

意味（3）

(rail transport) To place a train alongside a station platform.

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.

意味（4）

(politics, transitive) To include in a political platform

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.

意味（5）

(transitive) To publish or make visible; to provide a platform for (a topic etc.).

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.

意味（6）

(film, transitive) To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm.

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.

意味（7）

(obsolete, transitive) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.

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.

platforms （ present singular third-person ）

platforming （ participle present ）

platformed （ participle past ）

platformed （ past ）