Platform vs Tool - 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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, passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.
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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
* {{quote-book, 1955, Amy Lowell, Complete Poetical Works
, passage=Among them I scarcely can plot out one truth / Plain enough to be platformed by some voting sleuth / And paraded before the precinct polling-booth. }}
(senseid)A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
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, title= Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
(slang) Penis.
(by extension, slang, pejorative) An obnoxious or uptight person.
To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather .
To equip with tools.
To work very hard.
(slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
(volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
(transitive, UK, slang, dated) To drive (a coach, etc.)
In computing terms the difference between platform and tool
is that platform is 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 while tool is a piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.In transitive terms the difference between platform and tool
is that platform is to place on a platform while tool is to work very hard.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") * ----tool
English
(wikipedia tool)Noun
(en noun)Pixels or Perish, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
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Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* toolbar * toolbox * toolchain * tool chest * tooling * toolkit * toolless * toollike * toolmaker * toolsetVerb
(en verb)- Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.