What does scaffold mean?

Definitions for scaffold
ˈskæf əld, -oʊldscaf·fold

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. scaffoldnoun

    a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)

  2. scaffoldverb

    a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers

  3. scaffoldverb

    provide with a scaffold for support

    "scaffold the building before painting it"

Wiktionary

  1. scaffoldnoun

    A structure made of scaffolding, for workers to stand on while working on a building.

  2. scaffoldnoun

    An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.

  3. scaffoldverb

    To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.

  4. Etymology: scaffold, from scaffaldus, from eschaffaut, from scadafaltum, from ex- + *, from * + falco, a variant of balco, of origin, from balco, from balkô, from bhelg-. Akin to balco. More at catafalque, balcony, balk.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. SCAFFOLDnoun

    Etymology: eschafaut, French; schavot, Dutch, from schawen, to show.

    Pardon
    The flat unraised spirit, that hath dar’d
    On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
    So great an object. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

    The throng
    On banks and scaffolds under sky might stand. John Milton.

    Fortune smiling at her fortune therein, that a scaffold of execution should grow a scaffold of coronation. Philip Sidney.

    These outward beauties are but the props and scaffolds
    On which we built our love, which, now made perfect,
    Stands without those supports. John Denham, Sophy.

    Sylla added three hundred commons to the senate; then abolished the office of tribune, as being only a scaffold to tyranny, whereof he had no further use. Jonathan Swift.

  2. To Scaffoldverb

    To furnish with frames of timber.

    Etymology: from the noun.

Wikipedia

  1. scaffold

    Scaffolding, also called scaffold or staging, is a temporary structure used to support a work crew and materials to aid in the construction, maintenance and repair of buildings, bridges and all other man-made structures. Scaffolds are widely used on site to get access to heights and areas that would be otherwise hard to get to. Unsafe scaffolding has the potential to result in death or serious injury. Scaffolding is also used in adapted forms for formwork and shoring, grandstand seating, concert stages, access/viewing towers, exhibition stands, ski ramps, half pipes and art projects.

ChatGPT

  1. scaffold

    A scaffold is a temporary structure that is set up, usually at a construction site, to support work crews and materials to aid in the construction, maintenance, or repair of buildings, bridges, and other structures. It can also refer to a framework or guiding structure used for support or learning in various fields like education, biology and software engineering.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Scaffoldnoun

    a temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators at a show, etc

  2. Scaffoldnoun

    specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold

  3. Scaffoldnoun

    an accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace

  4. Scaffoldverb

    to furnish or uphold with a scaffold

  5. Etymology: [OF. eschafault, eschafaut, escafaut, escadafaut, F. chafaud; probably originally the same word as E. & F. catafalque, It. catafalco. See Catafalque.]

Wikidata

  1. Scaffold

    Scaffolding is a technique supported by some model-view-controller frameworks, in which the programmer may write a specification that describes how the application database may be used. The compiler uses this specification to generate code that the application can use to create, read, update and delete database entries, effectively treating the template as a "scaffold" on which to build a more powerful application. Scaffolding is an evolution of database code generators from earlier development environments, such as Oracle's CASE Generator, and many other 4GL client-server software development products. Scaffolding was popularized by the Ruby on Rails framework. It has been adapted to other software frameworks, including Django, Monorail, Symfony, CodeIgniter, Yii, CakePHP, Model-Glue, Grails, Catalyst, Seam Framework, Spring Roo, ASP.NET Dynamic Data and ASP.NET MVC Framework's Metadata Template Helpers.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Scaffold

    skaf′old, n. a temporary platform for exhibiting or for supporting something, and esp. for the execution of a criminal: a framework.—v.t. to furnish with a scaffold: to sustain.—ns. Scaff′oldage (Shak.), a scaffold, a stage, the gallery of a theatre; Scaff′older, a spectator in the gallery: one of the 'gods;' Scaff′olding, a scaffold of wood for supporting workmen while building: materials for scaffolds: (fig.) a frame, framework: disposing of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by the Sioux Indians, &c. [O. Fr. escafaut (Fr. échafaud, It. catafalco); from a Romance word, found in Sp. catar, to view—L. captāre, to try to seize, falco (It. palco), a scaffold—Ger. balke, a beam. Doublet catafalque.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

  1. SCAFFOLD

    A work of art that rarely fails to get a hanging.

Editors Contribution

  1. scaffold

    A form of scaffolding.

    Scaffolds are used in the building and construction industry.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2020  

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scaffold in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scaffold in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of scaffold in a Sentence

  1. Dwight D Eisenhower:

    I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

  2. Ardeshir Bayat:

    Imagine a house with all the furniture and people taken out — you're left with an empty shell that is easier to populate than just building a house from scratch, in the same way, decellularized dermis provides a scaffold that the body can try to populate with its own cells. The good thing about decellularized dermis is that it has a structure and composition that the human body is already used to — the body responds more favorably to what it is used to than what it isn't.

  3. Pierre Corneille:

    It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

  4. Mother Jones:

    I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

  5. Robert Langer:

    Anytime anybody does anything in an area like this, I think it advances it. You learn something...every scaffold that you make is kind of different.

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