(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”.
Stance
Definition:
(n.) A stanza.
(n.) A station; a position; a site.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are just literally lying.” In August Microsoft severed its ties, saying Alec’s stance on climate change and several other issues “conflicted directly with Microsoft’s values”.
(2) The influence of vestibular dysfunction upon the vestibulospinal reflex (VSR) in two common peripheral syndromes was investigated by two types of posturographic examination: "static" posturography, recording and analyzing the postural sway in stance, and "kinetic" posturography, recording the stepping in place test.
(3) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(4) This paper employs a rhetorical form designed to clarify and sharpen the focus of the very special stance required--which must be painstakingly learned under careful supervision--in order to effectively tune in to communications coming from the unconscious of the patient.
(5) The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the effects of the leg during swing and stance phases of forward propulsion of the body for both men and women.
(6) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(7) Burham's claim to be the continuity candidate, coupled with his past reputation as a Blairite, suggests a centrist leadership that would stay on course in terms of private sector involvement in public services, a crackdown on benefit claimants and a tougher stance on criminals.
(8) "It's very clear now that the administration agrees with us," said Wyden, hailing a switch from both the Bush and Obama administration stance that "collecting these records is vital to western civilisation".
(9) He added: “From what we’ve seen so far, Londoners can be forgiven for wondering if Zac will be a mayor who works to bring London’s diverse communities together or one who will drive them apart.” Others evince real surprise over Goldsmith’s stance.
(10) Loads up to 2.5 kN were applied, without simulated muscle forces, to mimic the line-of-action of the resultant joint-force in a single-legged stance.
(11) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
(12) This paper describes a system for the quantitative analysis of posture and stance in the freely standing quadruped.
(13) It’s about state sovereignty.” The BLM’s retreat vindicated his stance, he said, tapping a copy of the US constitution which he keeps in a breast pocket.
(14) A spokesman for the Liberal Democratic party senator, David Leyonhjelm, said he would read Heydon’s decision before determining his stance.
(15) Even more striking is the stance being adopted by Hagan and her Democratic supporters, who have been as keen to discuss social issues as the Republicans have been to avoid them.
(16) In analogy to tip-toeing movements, it is concluded that the coactivation pattern is typical for stance conditions with a restricted area of support in order to reduce body sway.
(17) Maybe the claimants were politicians who took a strict stance on moral issues, or people who had misleadingly used their family image to seek office or commercial gain?
(18) He used the pre-recorded speech to deny accusations of embezzlement, saying: "They aim to tarnish my reputation and discredit my integrity, my stance, my political and military history during which I worked hard for Egypt and its people in peace and war."
(19) They are hoping that in a constituency that voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU, Goldsmith’s hard-Brexit stance will count against him.
(20) "Cameron's interpretation of Merkel's stance is partially based on a misunderstanding," said Stefan Kornelius, foreign editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung and author of an authorised Merkel biography.