Platform vs Panel - What's the difference?
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A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
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, title= A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion, a tribune.
A kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles.
(figurative)
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, work=BBC Sport (automobiles) A set of components shared by several vehicle models.
(computing) A particular type of operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software, and/or a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used to describe a particular environment for running other software, or for defining a specific software or hardware environment for discussion purposes.
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, title= (politics) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
(travel) A raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train, metro etc.
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(obsolete) A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.
(nautical) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
A flat expanse of rock often as a result of wave erosion.
To furnish with or shape into a
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To place on a platform.
(obsolete) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
(politics) To include in a political platform
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A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.; (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
(legal) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury.
(legal, Scotland) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
(obsolete) A piece of cloth serving as a saddle.
A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
(joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
(masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
(masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
(mining) A heap of dressed ore.
(mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
(dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
to fit with panels
As nouns the difference between platform and panel
is that platform is a raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made while panel is panel.As a verb platform
is to furnish with or shape into a.platform
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
citation, passage=Hodgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.}}
End of the peer show, passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms . Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}
citation, passage=A “moving platform'” scheme
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* dais * podiumDerived terms
* platform balance * platform bed * platform car * platformer * platform game * platforming * platform rocker * platform scale * platform ticketVerb
(en verb)citation
- Church discipline is platformed in the Bible. — Milton.
citation
See also
* (wikipedia "platform") * ----panel
English
Noun
(en noun)- Behind the picture was a panel on the wall.
- Today's panel includes John Smith.
- The last panel of a comic strip usually contains a punchline.
- (Blackstone)
- (Burrill)
- the panel of a door
- (Gwilt)