What's the difference between payload and platform?

Payload


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A partition method for increasing the payload of drug in the microspheres was developed by incorporating drug in both the aqueous and the organic phases.
  • (2) PLAGA-coated albumin microspheres released most of their payload through diffusion, and the coating eventually cracked after 7 days' incubation in saline supplemented with 0.1% Tween at 37 degrees C, enabling the release of any cDDP remaining.
  • (3) Heavier payloads can be accomodated at the same safe, slow speeds by increasing the size of the conduit.
  • (4) A fairing shields the payload, or satellite, carried by a rocket into space.
  • (5) The agreement also permits the ROK to operate drone aircraft having a range of 300km with payloads up to 2,500kg as well as shorter-range UAVs with no restrictions on their payloads."
  • (6) That macro downloads the main payload of the virus, the trojan program itself, which installs and runs on the users computer.
  • (7) In terms of the payload, we’ve taken bigger things than horses into space.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A leased Russian Beriev BE-200 water bomber drops its payload over a fire in Ogan Komering Ilir, South Sumatra.
  • (9) Typical cases are presented in terms of the distribution of two parameters, payload (m infinity) and time for complete payload release (t infinity) which also define the release rate constant (k).
  • (10) The rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 6.35pm ET, under clear skies, but engineers long had doubts about the attempted rocket landing a few minutes later because of the rocket’s payload: an 11,000lb satellite, one of its heaviest ever.
  • (11) The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will only allow commercial drones to fly where the drone and its payload weigh less than 55lb, it stays within unaided sight of the pilot and each drone has its own pilot.
  • (12) Under the new guidelines, South Korea can now possess ballistic missiles with a range up to 800km with a higher maximum payload of 500kg.
  • (13) Graphic An ICBM is a missile launched by a land-based system that is intended to carry nuclear payloads.
  • (14) The explosion destroyed the rocket and its payload, an Amos 6 communications satellite that Facebook wanted to use to provide internet to parts of Africa.
  • (15) It was the secondary payload, Aolong 1 (Roaming Dragon), on that launch that raised eyebrows, and stoked fears in some quarters that the civilian space programme is just a front for more covert operations.
  • (16) So what if you had a very sneaky keylogger which waited until you were in a web browser and then sent its keylogging payload to its collection site?
  • (17) The rate of drug release increased as the initial drug payload carried by the microspheres increased.
  • (18) For example, additional thrusters can be strapped on to the rocket to launch heavy payloads of around 7.5 tonnes into orbit.
  • (19) Spoons also require a delivery system which must reach those at risk but only packets deliver an effective "payload" of ingredients.
  • (20) "It is now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open wifi networks, even though we never used that data in any Google products."

Platform


Definition:

  • (n.) A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively.
  • (n.) A place laid out after a model.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop.
  • (v. t.) To place on a platform.
  • (v. t.) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (2) In addition, PDBu-treated subjects showed signs of having remembered the location of the platform better than controls when tested 24 h later.
  • (3) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
  • (4) In an interview with Channel 4 News he said they had to be careful not to act as a communications platform for terrorists.
  • (5) Cable news channels like Fox News and CNN carried the address, and some of the networks carried it on their digital platforms, but a network insider told Politico on Thursday the speech’s content was too “overtly political” to broadcast.
  • (6) Where Brooks was concerned on the hacking charge, there was very little extra evidence to add to that platform of inference.
  • (7) The apparatus consists of three basic components; a set of 4 strain gauge platforms on which the quadruped is trained to stand, a restraining device to keep the animal positioned over the strain gauge platforms and two mobile plates which mechanically stimulate the left or the right forelimb to produce the placing movement.
  • (8) Snapchat gives you the potential to get news, views and campaign information right into your supporter's hand, on a platform they are using daily.
  • (9) According to shareholder Marvin Pearlstein, in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday, the Canadian-based BlackBerry, formerly Research In Motion Ltd, misled investors last year by saying the company was "progressing on its financial and operational commitments," and that previews of its BlackBerry 10 platform had been well received by developers.
  • (10) Presence of the monosynaptic reflex during platform perturbations at normal latencies suggests that balance problems in children with Down syndrome do not result from hypotonia, which researchers have defined as decreased segmental motoneuron pool excitability and pathology of stretch reflex mechanisms, but rather result from defects within higher level postural mechanisms.
  • (11) Tim Farron has pledged to fight the next general election on a platform of taking the UK back into Europe .
  • (12) The two companies have pooled their software development resources to create MeeGo, a free software platform which they reckon will pave the way for the next generation of wireless communications devices.
  • (13) There will have to be very direct conversations about his platform,” one shadow cabinet member said, but others have insisted there can be no accommodation with Corbyn’s politics.
  • (14) The two groups of actors in this new development--the risk assessors and the strain designers--need the same platform of understanding from the field of microbial ecology, and a number of specific areas which may now be approached by modern technology deserve particular attention.
  • (15) The animal's head was firmly attached to a small platform which in turn was coupled to the transducer.
  • (16) We have Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris coming to those platforms this December, and Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition is available on PS4.” However, there is still some slight ambiguity about whether the deal is for Winter 2015 only.
  • (17) Responding quickly, whatever the channel, is one of the most important things when it comes to how happy clients feel about the interaction they’ve had,” said Simon Hay, co-founder of online learning platform Firefly .
  • (18) Explants of a human sacral chordoma were successfully maintained on collagen-coated coverslips, gelfoam sponge matrices, and Millipore filter platforms for up to 30 days.
  • (19) This device has collecting cups which follow the movements of the floor of the mouth but which is kept stationary by a fixed platform on the occlusal surfaces of the teeth.
  • (20) Tony Blair's speech on the future of the Labour party in full Read more Blair warned the party could not win on an “old- fashioned leftist platform”.