Platform vs Profile - 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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(countable) the outermost shape, view, or edge of an object
(countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
(countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
(countable) a specific space or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems
(uncountable) reputation
(uncountable) the amount by which something protrudes
(uncountable) prominence; noticeability
(archaeology) A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
(architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
(civil engineering) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
to create a summary or collection of information, especially about a person
to act based on such a summary; especially, to act on a stereotype. See profiling.
As verbs the difference between platform and profile
is that platform is to furnish with or shape into a while profile is .As a noun platform
is a raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.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") * ----profile
English
(wikipedia profile)Noun
- His fingers traced the profile of the handle.
- The brooch showed the profile of a Victorian woman.
- Law enforcement assembled a profile of the suspect.
- I just updated my Facebook profile to show I got engaged.
- Choose a handle with a low profile so it does not catch on things.
- Acting is, by nature, profession in which one must keep a high profile .
- What's the thermal profile on that thing?