scaffold
IPA: skˈæfʌɫd
noun
- A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
- An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
- An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
- (metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
- (sciences) A structure that provides support for some other material.
verb
- (transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
- (transitive) To sustain; to provide support for.
- (transitive) To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.
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Examples of "scaffold" in Sentences
- Fawkes was the last to stand on the scaffold.
- He died on the scaffold during the Reign of Terror.
- It is pivotally attached to the top of the scaffold.
- They kneel in repentant prayer, then mount the scaffold.
- As Louis mounted the scaffold he appeared dignified and resigned.
- As Louis mounted the scaffold, he appeared dignified and resigned.
- Scaffolding emergent writing is in the zone of proximal development.
- His death must be glorious in the field of battle or on the scaffold.
- An improved portable scaffold is the subject of the present invention.
- In the cart to the scaffold, Giacomo was subjected to continual torture.
- On the scaffold were a group of educated, courageous, honest Italians, guarded by
- On the platform of the scaffold was a conical-shaped block, enamelled in a brilliant red.
- A scaffold is a sense preadapted protein, although it is not in the biotechnological usage so called.
- Stealing robes from a funeral scaffold is simply foolish for anyone to try, given all they've heard about the Sioux.
- During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence committed against the King.
- The technology works by placing a very fine apparatus called a scaffold, which is made of polymer fibres hundreds of times finer than a human hair, in place of a missing limb or damaged organ.
- Aka DNA Staples that form a scaffold which guides and intricately folds the long strand like origami, hence the dub scaffold DNA Origami Now take Rothemund’s discovery add nearly two years and the power of IBM research and development.
- I think the best way to scaffold is to assess your students, give them something a bit challenging, and then work backwards as much as you need to to eventually provide enough support that they can accomplish the task or participate in the class successfully.
- The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted.
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