scaffold

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US /ˈskæf.əld/ UK /ˈskæf.əld/ See IPA manual

Freq #24510

Meanings

1

verb
provide with a scaffold for support

Scaffold the building before painting it.
2

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

1. A scaffold must be able to hold four times the load it is expected to carry. / 2. The footing for a scaffold must be level and solid and must not have motion when weight is applied. The scaffold must be level and plumb.
3

noun
An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.

The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
4

noun
A structure that provides support for some other material.

[T]he inventors of the present invention have found that the above-described recombinant gelatin contained in the scaffold for vascular endothelial cell migration according to the present invention markedly promotes migration of vascular endothelial cells. Therefore, use of the scaffold for vascular endothelial cell migration according to the present invention makes it possible to ensure that vascular endothelial cells migrate to a predetermined site to newly form blood vessels.

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Derived forms bioscaffoldintrascaffoldmicroscaffoldnanoscaffoldneoscaffoldscaffoldagescaffolderscaffoldinscaffoldingscaffoldishscaffoldlessscaffoldlike

Etymology

From Middle English scaffold, scaffalde, from Anglo-Norman schaffaut, eschaffaut, eschafal, eschaiphal, escadafaut (“platform to see a tournament”) (Modern French échafaud), from Old French es- (indicating movement away or separation) (from Latin ex- (“out, away”)) + chafaud, chafaut, chafault, caafau, caafaus, cadefaut (“scaffold for executing a criminal”), from Vulgar Latin *catafalcum (“viewing stage”), possibly from Ancient Greek κατα- (kata-, “back; against”) + Latin -falicum (from fala, phala (“wooden gallery or tower; siege tower”)).

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# scaffold

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2
**Part of speech:** verb, noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈskæf.əld/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈskæf.əld/
**Frequency rank:** 24510

## Meanings
1. provide with a scaffold for support
2. A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
3. An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
4. A structure that provides support for some other material.

## Examples
- Scaffold the building before painting it.
- 1. A scaffold must be able to hold four times the load it is expected to carry. / 2. The footing for a scaffold must be level and solid and must not have motion when weight is applied. The scaffold must be level and plumb.
- The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
- [T]he inventors of the present invention have found that the above-described recombinant gelatin contained in the scaffold for vascular endothelial cell migration according to the present invention markedly promotes migration of vascular endothelial cells. Therefore, use of the scaffold for vascular endothelial cell migration according to the present invention makes it possible to ensure that vascular endothelial cells migrate to a predetermined site to newly form blood vessels.

## Derived Forms
- bioscaffold
- intrascaffold
- microscaffold
- nanoscaffold
- neoscaffold
- scaffoldage
- scaffolder
- scaffoldin
- scaffolding
- scaffoldish
- scaffoldless
- scaffoldlike

## Etymology
From Middle English scaffold, scaffalde, from Anglo-Norman schaffaut, eschaffaut, eschafal, eschaiphal, escadafaut (“platform to see a tournament”) (Modern French échafaud), from Old French es- (indicating movement away or separation) (from Latin ex- (“out, away”)) + chafaud, chafaut, chafault, caafau, caafaus, cadefaut (“scaffold for executing a criminal”), from Vulgar Latin *catafalcum (“viewing stage”), possibly from Ancient Greek κατα- (kata-, “back; against”) + Latin -falicum (from fala, phala (“wooden gallery or tower; siege tower”)).

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