platey, platy

[Eng. plate; -y.] Like a plate; flat. plăt-fond, s. [PLAFOND.] plăt-form, s. [Fr. plate for me, from plate, fem. of plat =flat, and forme form.] I. Ordinary Language : *1. A sketch of anything horizontally delineated; the ichnography. "I have made a platform of a princely garden by precept." -Bacon: E ays; Of Gardens. *2. A model, a pattern. "The archetype or first platform , which is in the attributes and acts of God."- Bacon : Adv . of Learn ., bk. i. *3. A place laid out after a model. "Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." Pope: E ay on Man, iv. 118. IMG:content-1192.jpg:[graphic] 4. Any flat or horizontal surface, raised above some particular level; as (1) The flat roof of a building on the outside. (2) A landing-stage. (3) A raised walk at a railway station, for the convenience of pa engers in entering or alighting from the cars, and for loading and unloading goods. "The old habit of addre ing crowds on railway plat forms."-London Daily Telegraph . (4) A part of a room or hall, raised above the level of the rest of the floor, and appropriated to speakers at a public meeting, performers in entertainments, . 5. The principles adopted or put forward by a party or sect; a declared policy, a political programme, a policy. "If the Democratic party adhere to the sentiment expre ed in their platform , startling changes must take place in the tariff."- Chicago Tribune. 6. Opinions or principles generally. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, platform-board II. Technically : 1. Fort .: The floor on which the guns are placed, It is level transversely, and has a slight slope toward the embrasure. The cha is, when pivoted forward, transverses on a curved rack at the rear. The gun runs in and out of battery on the cha is. 2. Gla - manuf .: The bench in a gla -furnace on which the pots are placed. 3. Naut .: The orlop (q.v.)