(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”.
Turntable
Definition:
(n.) A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.
Example Sentences:
(1) For training, head restrained animals were oscillated on a turntable in front of an optokinetic pattern projected onto a cylindrical wall.
(2) The experiments involved (a) voluntary oscillation of the head, (b) whole body oscillation on a turntable and (c) stimulation of neck afferents by oscillation of the body with the head fixed.
(3) Waste eluates are collected and drained to the sink by a Teflon tray positioned between the columns and counting tubes, also held by the turntable.
(4) djay offers a virtual pair of turntables, and it's easy to create and record your own mixes.
(5) Horizontal DC-electrooculograms were recorded in subjects rotating on a horizontal turntable sinusoidally at 0.1 Hz and 35 to 40 degrees amplitude.
(6) In the first, alcohol was shown to degrade both visual pursuit and suppression of the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) in a similar manner when the vestibular response was induced by passive oscillation on a turntable at frequencies of 0.11-1.2 Hz.
(7) And by the end I was headlining the main room, peak time.” He beams, triumphant: “I’d gone from not knowing what I was doing to being able to go, here I am, I’m going to smash it.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Knights of the turntable: Four Tet DJs with Skrillex at Camden Underworld.
(8) In order to increase or decrease the VORD gain, the optokinetic drum was oscillated either 180 degrees out-of-phase or in-phase with the vestibular stimulus turntable.
(9) The net HVOR was obtained by rotation of the turntable in darkness and the net OKR by rotation of the light source.
(10) The horizontal semicircular canals were stimulated by oscillation of the turntable and EMG activity was recorded from neck extensor muscles.
(11) The system is also independent of the rotational stability of the linear accelerator gantry axis and turntable axis.
(12) A homogeneous irradiation is obtained by the patient's rotation on a turntable within the radiation field.
(13) By coincidence, I had just bought one of their supposedly remastered vinyl albums and been so repelled by the sound – thin, full of pops and crackles and excessive sibilance – that I had taken apart my turntable, in search of a fault that was actually in the grooves.
(14) The monkeys were seated on a vestibular turntable, and their heads were restrained.
(15) Proper matching of the fields and minimizing the irradiated lung volume can be obtained by suitable beam blocking and appropriate angulation of the gantry, collimator and turntable.
(16) The only things I really, really love are my Technics SL-1200 turntables.
(17) In the turntable experiments, the flow away from the catheter tip (away flow) was significantly lower than that toward the catheter (toward flow), but the measured velocities for both away and toward flows were always lower than the known velocities.
(18) Phase advance, relative to turntable velocity, was small between 0.05 and 0.5 Hz.
(19) In control states, simple spike discharges of H-zone cells were modulated predominantly out of phase with the velocity of sinusoidal turntable oscillation (0.1Hz, 5 degrees peak-to-peak).
(20) To determine if animals are capable of utilizing vestibular sensory input for spatial orientation, a six-arm radial maze with a rotating central turntable was constructed.