What's the difference between platform and podium?

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”.

Podium


Definition:

  • (n.) A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall.
  • (n.) The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheater, from the top of which the seats began.
  • (n.) The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers.
  • (n.) The foot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We are going to be working this record for the next 18 months," says the boss of Atlantic, standing on a small podium surrounded by Astroturf.
  • (2) As a result, the 15 people on the podium were outnumbered less than three to one by the audience and a significant number of the attendees were WPP employees.
  • (3) We can’t let ministers just shrug their shoulders | Peter Tatchell Read more After returning to the podium at the Methodist central hall in Westminster, he told the audience Thornberry had clearly expressed Labour’s opposition to the war in Syria and had called for an end to the conflict.
  • (4) When he eventually walked to the podium, the typed final version was once more full of crossings out and scribbles.
  • (5) Then King grabbed the podium and set his prepared text to his left.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Alton Sterling’s family give emotional statement after police killing Someone set up a makeshift podium in the parking lot and a public address system.
  • (7) Brando’s letter, which Littlefeather didn’t read on the podium, was later released to the press and asserted: “We lied to them.
  • (8) Standing on an Olympic podium is all very well but surveying the world from the summit is something else again.
  • (9) In the small, echoing gym of a primary school, Rodríguez and García Sánchez took turns at a makeshift podium, outlining the key planks of the party’s platform, detailing agrarian reform to a moratorium on evictions.
  • (10) Through plain language and calm delivery at the podium he went a bit of the way, but in the end the substance of the speech was simply too lively to allow for the promised snoozeathon.
  • (11) Nick Clegg then says he will go ahead and have a debate with himself and empty podium the other parties.
  • (12) Also on the podium were Cuba’s Raúl Castro and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
  • (13) This is why it’s so important to name those responsible and not leave it as if this is an a-historic massacre.” Zedconte, 26, works as a consultant in Guadalajara Protest reach Plaza de la Liberacion in Guadalajara Protestors sit around an improvised podium where student victims and missing names where remembered.
  • (14) # mgeitf August 23, 2012 6.15pm BST The Guardian's Dan Sabbagh has just tweeted: Dan Sabbagh (@dansabbagh) Liz Murdoch speech about to begin, promises to be very interesting # mgeitf August 23, 2012 and Dan Sabbagh (@dansabbagh) Liz Murdoch cheered as she takes the podium in Edinburgh.
  • (15) In a format almost (but not quite) as complicated as ITV’s seven-way leader debate on 2 April, the podium order from left to right will be Miliband, Wood, Bennett, Sturgeon and Farage.
  • (16) Speaking on the same podium, Georgia senator Saxby Chambliss called all the detainees still at the base "the meanest, nastiest killers in the world" and said the base should remain open, including for all the Yemenis.
  • (17) "I was pretty happy with how the Europeans went, it's good to be on the podium, but you need to look at the bigger picture," she says.
  • (18) For Nick Clegg, it happened last week, when he stepped back from his debate podium to address a retired toxicologist from Cheshire.
  • (19) He was present on Roosevelt Island in June when she formally announced her candidacy , but even then he was limited to waving from the sidelines and kept away from the podium.
  • (20) We will restore it on Liberty Square on the same podium,” he said.