noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an observation deck/platform/tower (= a structure that is built in order to observe something )
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The army built an observation tower on the top of the building.
drilling platform
platform game
platform shoes (= with a thick base )
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I found an old pair of platform shoes from the 1970s.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
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Use higher platforms as your legs become stronger.
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For a long moment I just stood there in the darkness, feeling like a diver on a high platform .
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Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods.
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Finished, the 4-foot-\#high platform was three times larger than any stage extant in San Francisco.
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Rows of hard-backed tip-up seats occupied the room which sloped towards a high platform .
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The bed occupied a high platform of stained pine.
new
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The new platforms need to show enhanced functionality, lower software and hardware costs, and, above all, easy availability.
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Dole and Kemp both oppose abortion, and the new Republican platform retains a strong anti-abortion plank.
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This station is new; much excavation had to be done to provide space and a new platform hall.
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Conservatives insist that the new platform retain the 1992 abortion plank calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion.
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With.NET, Microsoft's plan is to establish a new platform .
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For these new requirements, platform choices include high-end symmetric multiprocessors, clustered architecture, and massive parallel systems.
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This will work, however, only if Microsoft can persuade programmers to write software that runs on its new platform .
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It will also introduce a new technology platform for Abbey.
other
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Symbolics plans to unbundle its various products and says support for other Unix platforms will follow.
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Hyundai plans to port the system to other platforms as well.
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The game play is smooth and the graphics are as good as any other platforms type game.
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This footbridge used to be the only way to cross to the other platform .
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No other platforms are considered significant.
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It says it will extend the mechanism to support other database platforms in future.
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Gupta says, it will be announcing further support for other platforms later in the year.
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The other platform is empty but for Hancock.
political
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Its political platform is brief: the iron hand against Communism to save private enterprise.
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Perhaps most importantly, city halls provide the opposition with a significant political platform before national elections later this year.
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Resolving such ambiguities is extremely important since entire economic and political platforms rest upon the outcome.
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Some commentators suggest that it represents a key political platform for the government in coming years.
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Up until then, the Contract was far clearer than most political platforms .
raised
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At the back of the raised platform at one end of the hall was a wooden cross, about six feet high.
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Beds varied in their design and some were raised platforms made out of wood or stone.
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They could listen to the pipe bands and Tina liked watching the Highland dancers on the raised platform .
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The use of steps or raised platforms is recommended.
republican
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Another important development prior to the opening of the Republican convention was the finalization of party policy by the Republican platform committee.
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Dole and Kemp both oppose abortion, and the new Republican platform retains a strong anti-abortion plank.
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By now we know the Republican platform means nothing.
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Robert Dornan and Patrick Buchanan -- to pledge to continue to include in the Republican platform a constitutional ban on abortions.
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The Kansas senator indicated a willingness to make minor changes in the anti-abortion plank in the Republican platform .
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By 1980 the Republican Party platform had become antiabortion; and a president who pledged to outlaw abortion altogether had been elected.
wooden
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Above, on a wooden platform , are the mill stones, accompanied by one or two antique items of interest.
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Most of them had shingled awnings borne on prominent brackets projecting over their simple wooden platforms .
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When you die there they put you on a wooden platform below the sky and the vultures come and eat the body.
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Susan and Breeze seized their meagre luggage and stepped out on to the tiny wooden platform .
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For me, five hundred men built a special wooden platform with twenty-two wheels.
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By rail you could alight at the tiny wooden platform that has been used by servicemen for decades.
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The Charwighul people laid out their dead on a wooden platform and covered them with reed mats.
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Two feet in front of them was the catwalk, a bare narrow wooden platform angling away from a curtained entrance.
■ NOUN
committee
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Another important development prior to the opening of the Republican convention was the finalization of party policy by the Republican platform committee .
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Henry Hyde, R-Ill., who is platform committee chairman, is still hoping to defuse the explosive issue.
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The chairman of the convention platform committee , Rep.
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Henry Hyde of Illinois chairman of the platform committee .
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They also designated representatives for the platform committee .
hardware
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For reference purposes, multimedia implies decisions about support for specific hardware platforms .
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It will be the first time the leading graphics are available on the leading hardware platform .
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The choice of package, in turn, will determine what hardware platform is going to be most appropriate.
oil
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The pilot of a puma helicopter flying between the Magnus Oil platform and another platform when he saw two bombers ahead of him.
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Now it's oil platform equipment.
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Communities of fish and invertebrates are attracted to structures such as oil platforms and nuclear waste dumps.
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Ships are noisy places Ocean-going tankers and oil platforms are formidable places in terms of stray radio transmission.
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Typical end-uses include fire screens and welding blankets in potentially hazardous environments such as oil platforms , shipyards and the steel industry.
party
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The reality is that party platforms are considerably more complex, with choices between desirable ends deliberately obscured.
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Pete Wilson, has vowed to remove language in the party platform that calls for a constitutional ban on abortions.
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Both the Republican and Democratic Party platforms called for a victims' rights amendment.
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Pete Wilson, to re-examine the anti-abortion plank of the party platform .
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Many said they would rather devote their energies to defeating Clinton than quarreling over the wording in the party platform .
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Henry Hyde, R-Ill., a longtime abortion opponent tapped by Dole to chair the committee crafting the official party platform .
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By 1980 the Republican Party platform had become antiabortion; and a president who pledged to outlaw abortion altogether had been elected.
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Dobson and other conservatives said they will not accept any changes to the party platform on abortion.
shoe
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Flares feature highly in the line up, as do dizzy platform shoes that defy gravity.
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Remember flares, platform shoes and glam rock?
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We all wear mutated versions of the school uniform and platform shoes .
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Carmen Miranda got away with cocaine in her platform shoes .
station
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From the signs on the station platform she could see now where they were.
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So they fetched a policeman who threw him and his suitcases on to the station platform .
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The unplaceable sadness of belonging was suddenly mine on that station platform .
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Its name, as it appears on the signs on the station platform , is Ayrwood-on-Hudson.
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The man turns and trots away from me up the right-hand staircase from the mezzanine to the station platform .
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There are instances of people being crushed to death or pushed under trains by the crush of excursionists on station platforms .
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You could see the station platforms from here, and the station itself and the bridge.
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Philip White's day starts on a dark station platform before most of us are up and running.
unix
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Symbolics plans to unbundle its various products and says support for other Unix platforms will follow.
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Prices go from across a range of Unix platforms .
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Xshell supports most Unix platforms and X-Windows under Motif.
■ VERB
build
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Permission has been requested by the Darlington council recreation committee to build a platform on to the railway museum at Hopetown Lane.
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Another appears to be a satellite transmitting antenna built atop a two-story platform .
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Sightlines can be a good reason for choosing a clear open hall where you can build your own platform or stage.
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The paratroop officer failed and spent two years in prison, then slowly began to build his platform for government.
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Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods.
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He built us nine platforms up in the canopy.
provide
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The tram carried a mobile generator for the power and provided a stable platform for the television cameras.
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By formalising their relationship, the companies hope to provide an established platform which implements the core technology behind the Intelligent Network.
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Frankfurt will provide the electronic trading platform and be the centre for hi-tech stocks.
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It provides a safe working platform for both you and the equipment needed.
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And, to render this possible, it was essential for the state to provide a basic platform of entitlements.
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Galerie Jahnhorst &038; Preuss provides a platform for a calmer but no less original artist.
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The presidential offices nestle behind this and a balcony provides a fine platform from which the public can be addressed.
run
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I run along the platform with the train, and thump again.
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I ran on a platform of turning this city into a woman-friendly place, something completely new in its history.
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This will work, however, only if Microsoft can persuade programmers to write software that runs on its new platform .
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In the 1964 campaign he ran on a platform promising major social reforms at home and peace abroad.
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He picked it up and ran out on to the platform hoping to return it to its owner.
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The convention was effectively run , with platform differences on abortion, immigration and other matters smoothed over.
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Hippix also runs on OS/2 platforms and Hippo reportedly has an installed base of OS/2 customers.
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Sure, he ran on a campaign platform befitting a candidate for president of a civic association.
stand
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The man stood thoughtfully on the platform as the train slowly pulled out of the station.
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Mr Hanson liked to stand on the platform to keep his feet off damp ground.
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Ryan stood on the little platform by the blackboard, cleaning the board with a rag.
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Our good friends standing on the platform .
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No doubt Temple remembered that once they stood on the same platform at Cambridge.
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So he saves me a dollar and costs me two hundred, and leaves me standing on this platform gnashing my teeth.
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Tom and Peter and Peter's new friend Jay were standing on the platform waiting for the southbound Jubilee train.
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The sea captain was led down from the wharf to the beach, to stand on the platform beneath the gallows beam.
walk
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Charlotte walked slowly on to the platform and waited for her train to pull in.
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I left them, I walked down the platform making faces at the blackshirts.
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Before getting on board some of us walked down the platform to take photographs of Evening Star running round its train.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"The deal provides us with a platform for expansion into new markets," Weldon said.
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a gas drilling platform
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Actors have a good platform to promote their causes.
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Please address your comments to the platform .
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Professor Allen stepped up onto the platform .
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The party's new platform emphasizes rural development.
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The train to Boston leaves from Platform 9.
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Which platform does your department use, Windows or Macintosh?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although different installers are required for each platform , there is considerable commonality of code between the installers, observes Praxis.
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General Vladimir Fyodorov led an ultranationalist government to power in 2002 on a platform pledged to eliminating organized crime at any cost.
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Often she wore platform heels and flared trousers.
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The train's arrival was an Event and whole families gathered on the station platforms to see their travelling members off.
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The train drew away and Claudia was left alone on the platform .
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Warehouses yawning out over the barren yards and loading docks; rusted cranes fused to their platforms, punching at the air.