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Definition of scaffold
1a : a temporary or movable platform for workers (such as bricklayers, painters, or miners) to stand or sit on when working at a height above the floor or groundb : a platform on which a criminal is executed (as by hanging or beheading)c : a platform at a height above ground or floor level
2 : a supporting framework
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Examples of scaffold in a Sentence
The condemned man was led to the scaffold.
Recent Examples of scaffold from the Web
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In 1998, the company was fined $250,000 after a scaffold failed in Maine, throwing a communications tower worker to the ground, 200 feet below.
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Tzompantli were ceremonial wooden scaffolds used in many ancient cultures of the Americas to display the skulls of human sacrifices.
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The ovaries were 3D-printedthrough an innovative technique developed by researchers at Northwestern University, whocreated a scaffold tohold immature eggs.
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First, a collagen scaffold is inserted into the gap in the broken bone, allowing a place for bone progenitor cells to nest. --
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As one of the scaffold branches of the mighty oak came crashing down, hundreds of bees that had been living in the tree flew off, and homeowners Mark and Mary Ellen Vavrus found their car partially hidden beneath treetops in their driveway.
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On a scaffold several stories high beneath the dome of a Cairo church, Ayman William paints for the glory of God, unfazed by recent attacks against his fellow Coptic Christians in Egypt.
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CAIRO (AP) — On a scaffold several stories high beneath the dome of a Cairo church, Ayman William paints for the glory of God, unfazed by recent attacks against his fellow Coptic Christians in Egypt.
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Susan Tunick, a terra-cotta authority, told me that when the building was being restored, she was allowed to go out on a scaffold.
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Origin and Etymology of scaffold
Middle English, from Anglo-French scaffald, alteration of Old French eschaafauz, escafaut, alteration of chaafaut, from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum — more at catafalque
SCAFFOLD Defined for English Language Learners
scaffold
playDefinition of scaffold for English Language Learners
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: a temporary or movable platform or structure on which a person stands or sits while working high above the floor or ground
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: a platform or structure on which criminals are killed by being hanged or beheaded
SCAFFOLD Defined for Kids
scaffold
playDefinition of scaffold for Students
1 : a raised platform built as a support for workers and their tools and materials
2 : a platform on which executions take place
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