American English pronunciation
How to pronounce scaffold
IPA transcription: [s'kæfəld]
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Noun
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a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
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a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
Verb
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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.