different between platform vs tool

English

Etymology

From Middle French plateforme (“a flat form”), from plate (“flat”) (from Old French plat, from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “flat”)) + forme (“form”) (from Latin f?rma (“shape; figure; form”)); compare flatscape.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?plætf??m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?plætf??m/
• Hyphenation: plat?form

Noun

platform (plural platforms)

1. A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.

   Synonym: (not for artistic performances) podium

2. A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.
3. A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion; a tribune.

   Synonym: (only regarding the physical structure) podium

4. A kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles.
5. (figuratively) Something that allows an enterprise to advance; a foundation or stage.
6. (automobiles) A set of components shared by several vehicle models.
7. (computing) A computer system used to deliver services to clients; a solution
8. (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.
10. (geology) A flat expanse of rock, often the result of wave erosion.
11. (nautical) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
12. (politics) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
13. (travel) A raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train, metro etc.
14. (obsolete) A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Synonyms

• dais

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

platform (third-person singular simple present platforms, present participle platforming, simple past and past participle platformed)

1. (transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform
2. (transitive) To place on, or as if on, a platform.
   • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, To Flush, My Dog

     And this dog was satisfied / If a pale thin hand would glide / Down his dewlaps sloping / Which he pushed his nose within, / After—platforming his chin / On the palm left open.

3. (obsolete, transitive) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
4. (politics, transitive) To include in a political platform
5. (transitive) To publish or make visible; to provide a platform for (a topic etc.).

   Antonyms: deplatform, no-platform

6. (film, transitive) To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm.

See also

• Platform in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References

• platform on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• platform (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle French plateforme.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: plat?form

Noun

platform n (plural platformen or platforms, diminutive platformpje n)

1. A platform, flat surface, notably a dais or stage
2. A political platform, (electoral) program
3. A plateau
4. A flat roof
5. (obsolete) A ground-plan

Synonyms

• (physical) podium n, verhoog n
• (in a station) perron n
• (political) (kies)programma n
• (ground-plan) plattegrond

Derived terms

• kiesplatform n

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: platform

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Plattform, from French plateforme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pl?tform]
• Hyphenation: plat?form
• Rhymes: -orm

Noun

platform (plural platformok)

1. (politics) platform (electoral program)
2. (computing) platform (a particular type of operating system or environment)
3. platform (a flat surface)

Declension

Derived terms

• platformfüggetlen

References

Further reading

• platform in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch platform, from Middle French plateforme (Modern French plate-forme), from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “flat”)) + Latin f?rma (“shape; figure; form”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?platf?rm]
• Hyphenation: plat?form

Noun

platform

1. platform,
   1. a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.

      Synonyms: program, rencana

   2. a raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.

      Synonyms: panggung, pentas, mimbar

   3. a raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train, metro etc.

      Synonym: peron

2. a political platform, (electoral) program.

Further reading

• “platform” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French plateforme.

Noun

platform (definite accusative platformu, plural platformlar)

1. platform
2. (transport, travel) platform

Declension

Synonyms

• (travel): peron

English

Etymology

From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English t?l (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), from Proto-Germanic *t?l? (“tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh?- (“to tie to, secure”), equivalent to taw (“to prepare”) +? -le (agent suffix). Cognate with Scots tuil (“tool, implement, instrument, device”), Icelandic tól (“tool”), Faroese tól (“tool, instrument”). Related to Old English t?wian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres used for spinning").

Pronunciation

• enPR: to?ol, IPA^(key): /tu?l/
• Rhymes: -u?l
• Homophone: tulle

Noun

tool (plural tools)

2. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.

3. Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools.

4. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
5. (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.

6. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.

7. (vulgar, slang) A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
8. (by extension, vulgar, slang, derogatory) An obnoxious or uptight person.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:penis
• See also Thesaurus:tool

Derived terms

Translations

References

• tool on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

tool (third-person singular simple present tools, present participle tooling, simple past and past participle tooled)

1. (transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
2. (transitive) To equip with tools.
3. (intransitive) To work very hard.
   • 1965, Matt Fichtenbaum and Dan Murphy, “The Institute Screw” in The Broadside of Boston, vol. III, No. 22:

     Do this lab and read this book, now tool, one and all,
     And be sure and pass that final quiz or be screwed right to the wall.

4. (transitive, 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.

   Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.

5. (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
6. (transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To drive (a coach or other vehicle).
7. (transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To carry or convey in a coach or other vehicle.
   • 1850s, Cuthbert M. Bede, The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green

     Among those who seemed disposed to join in this opinion was the Jehu of the Warwickshire coach, who expressed his conviction to our hero, that "he wos a young gent as had much himproved hisself since he tooled him up to the Warsity with his guvnor."

8. (intransitive, slang) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
   • March 8, 1890, Byron P. Stephenson, "My Trip to Brazil", in Illustrated American

     boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept roads

   • 2011, Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London, Gollancz 2011, page 324:

     These are the guys that tool around in Mercedes Sprinter vans with equipment lockers stuffed with everything from riot helmets to tasers.

Synonyms

• (volleyball): use

Derived terms

• tool around

Translations

References

Anagrams

• LOTO, OOTL, loot, loto

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tool

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?l/
• Hyphenation: tool
• Rhymes: -u?l

Noun

tool m (plural tools, diminutive tooltje n)

1. A tool, aid, instrument, auxiliary device.

   Synonym: hulpmiddel

Related terms

• toolbox

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German stôl, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *st?laz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?to?l?/
• IPA^(key): /?to?l/
• Hyphenation: tool

Noun

tool (genitive tooli, partitive tooli)

1. chair
   1. A seat with four legs and a backrest for one person.
      • 1968, Peet Vallak, Tuuled ümber maja: Novellivalimik, page 200:

        Siis läks kogu ta vallasvara oksjonile ning mõni siiasiginenud tool, laud, voodi, kapp ja sööginõud olid nüüd seaduslikult naise-ema omad.

        Then all his personal property was put up for auction and any chair, table, bed, or dishes he had taken possession now belonged legitimately to his mother-in-law.

Declension

Derived terms

References

• tool” in Sõnaveeb

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English t?l, from Proto-Germanic *t?l?.

Alternative forms

• tole, tol, toole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?l/

Noun

tool (plural toles or tolen)

2. A tool, implement, or instrument.
3. A instrument of war; an armament.
4. (rare) A device used for torturing or interrogration.
5. (rare, vulgar) A penis.

Descendants

• English: tool
• Scots: tuil

References

• “t??l, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-03.

Etymology 2

Noun

tool

2. Alternative form of toll.