Physical Objects and Features
- Diving platform, used in diving
- Jumping platform, naturally occurring platforms, or platforms made in an ad-hoc way for cliff jumping
- Oil platform, a structure built for oil production
- Platform (geology), the part of a continental craton that is covered by sedimentary rocks
- Carbonate platform, a type of sedimentary body
- Platform mound, an earthwork intended to support a structure or activity
- Platform shoe, a kind of shoe with a thick sole
- Platform (theatre), a standard piece of theatrical scenery
- Railway platform, an area at a train station to alight from/embark on trains or trams
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Famous quotes containing the words physical, objects and/or features:
“To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion—far less by the white fire of love.”
—Mary Webb (1881–1927)
“I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way. But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
““It looks as if
Some pallid thing had squashed its features flat
And its eyes shut with overeagerness
To see what people found so interesting
In one another, and had gone to sleep
Of its own stupid lack of understanding,
Or broken its white neck of mushroom stuff
Short off, and died against the windowpane.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)