plate wheel (plathwel)

A wheel without arms or spokes; a wheel in which the rim and nave are connected by a plate or web.- Open plate-wheel, a form of cast-iron wheel having large open used for street-cars, etc. platey, a. See platy. platfond, n. Same as plafond. platform (platform), n. [Formerly also plot form (simulating plat2, plot1 ); = Sp. Pg. plat a form a = It. piattaforma, in 1708. They substantially agree with each other and with the principles still maintained by Congregationalists. See congregationalism.- Feeding-platform, a platform, generally about two feet by four, placed in the middle cleaned than the of a trout-pond, a few inches above the bottom: used by fish-culturists. If the food is thrown over this platform, all not taken before it reaches the bottom in of the pond, there is le liability of fouling the water. The fish will also take food better from a clean than from a muddy bottom. It serves incidentally, too, as a cover for the young fish. drawing, or sketch; a plan; a map. So I have made a platform of a princely garden, partly by precept, partly by drawing-not a model, but some general lines of it. Bacon, Gardens (ed. 1887). The young men meeting in places of exercise, and the old men also in Artificers Shops, and in their compa ed Chaires, or halfe circles where they sate talking together, were every one occupied about drawing the Plat for me of Sicilia, telling the nature of the Sicilian Sea, and reckon ing up the Havens and places looking towards Africke. North, tr. of Plutarch (ed. 1656), p. 456. Able so well to limn or paint as to take in paper the situation of a castle or a city, or the platform of a fortification. Leigh (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 646). 21. A plot; a design; a scheme; a plan. Alexander. Apelles, what peece of worke have you now in hand? Apelles. None in hand, if it like your majestie: but I am devising a plat for me in my head. Lyly , Alexander and Campaspe, v. 4. And now there rests no other shift but this, To gather our soldiers, scatter'd and dispersed, And lay new platforms to endamage them. Shak ., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 1. 77. A sudden plot form comes into my mind, And this it is. Grim, The Collier of Croydon, ii. 31. Situation; position. With your instrument for trying of distances, obserue the plat for me of the place. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 436. 4. A raised level place; a terrace. Ham. But where was this? Mar. My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd. Shak., Hamlet, i. 2. 213. The buildings we now find on the platform at Perse polis may have dedicated to somewhat different than were those of Nineveh. J. Fergu on, Hist. Arch, I. 189. 5. A raised frame or structure with a level surface. Specifically-( a ) A raised structure in a hall or meeting-place for the use of those who are to speak; a rostrum or stage from which a speaker may conveniently addre his audience. ( b ) A raised walk along the track at a railway-station for landing pa engers and freight. (c) The place where guns are mounted on a fortre or battery. The Captain commanded them to cast anchor before a certain town called Cris, which had a platform or fort with ordnance to defend it. Eng . Stratagem (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 605). (d) Naut ., the orlop. (e) In a gla -furnace, a bench on which the pots are placed. E. H. Knight . (f) A projecting floor or landing at the end of a railroad-car or street-car, serving as a means of ingre and egre . Specifically-6. A systematic scheme or body of principles, especially of religious or political principles, expre ly adopted as a policy or basis of action; a syllabus, program, or scheme of principles or doctrines adopted as a basis of action, policy, or belief; specifically, in U. S. politics , a statement of political principles and of the course to be adopted with regard to certain important questions of policy, i ued by the representatives of a political party a embled in convention to nominate candidates for an election: as, the Genevan platform ; a political platform ; the Democratic platform . The wisdom of a lawmaker consist eth not only in a plat form of justice, but in the application thereof. Bacon Advancement of Learning, ii. 355. Every little society pretending to that venerable name imposed the platform of their doctrine, discipline, and wor To sketch or lay down plan of; set in plan; outline. IMG:content-0369.png:[blocks in formation] a, platform; b, truck-frames; c, buffers; d, brake-shoes; e, brake wheel. railroad-car, having no inclosing sides, or surrounded merely by low ledges. platform-carriage (platform-kar"āj), n. A four-wheeled platform, wagon, or truck used for carrying mortars, guns, or other heavy materials or stores. platform-crane (plat'fôrm-krān), n. 1. A detachable crane on the margin of a railway-car platform or a platform of a truck.-2. A crane permanently mounted on a movable truck, which forms an integral part of the machine. plat former (plat'fôrm-er), n. [ But one divine A retine in Italy, and two heavenly Tarletons in England, the sole platform ers of odd elocution, and only singularities of the plain world. G. Harvey, Four Letters, iii. platform ist (plat fôrm-ist), n . [ platform + -ist.] A public speaker or lecturer. [Colloq.] platform-scale (plat'fôrm-skāl), n . A weighing-machine or balance with a flat scale or platform for the support of the object to be weighed. The designation is applied especially to a weighing machine in which the flat scale is placed near level with a table, counter, floor, or ground, for the convenient reception of heavy bodies and to save lifting, and is connected with the scale-beam by a system of compound levers and links. Either sliding or detachable counterpoising weights, or both, are used on the beam, which, when sliding weights are used, is graduated to indicate weights and fractions of the unit of weight. platform-spring (plat fôrm-spring), n. In a vehicle, a compound spring consisting of a rectangular arrangement of four arched springs, each made up of long, thin, curved steel plates of regularly diminishing lengths bolted together. The extremities of the four springs are united at the corners of the rectangle by links or stirrups, two of the springs usually bowing upward and two downward. The name has also been applied to a similar mechanism arranged as on three a rectangle.