American English pronunciation

How to pronounce scaffold

IPA transcription: [s'kæfəld]

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Noun

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

  • a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers

Verb

  • provide with a scaffold for support

    “scaffold the building before painting it”

Usage examples

  • Further developments have made scaffolding systems even easier to use.
  • It was built using free-standing system-scaffolding that supported padded benches rather than individual seats.
  • At the bottom of the scaffold he cried out "Heil Hitler!".
  • According to Peter Stanford the term originates from the Italian ', which means scaffolding.
  • an overhead view of a painter working on a scaffold.
  • Two workers are working on a elaborate scaffolding along side a tall building
  • Scaffolds are positioned along the physical map of the chromosomes creating a "golden path".
  • Two men working on a scaffold.
  • A woman in a white dress climbs a scaffold that looks like a trapeze.