scaffold

Examples

• All

• I fell off a scaffold about six months ago.

  Nobody's Fool (1994)

• To complete the repairs, the crew set up a large scaffold outside the old theater.

• Or we could take advantage of what nature had already done and use the scaffold that nature had created.

• We have all of the glass on the various levels of the scaffold ready to be installed.

• Get up there on the scaffold.

  Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)

• Now, outside there is a scaffold.

  The Matrix (1999)

• There's a painter's scaffold up there.

  This Gun for Hire (1942)

• Henry Wheeling, the old laborer, fell off the scaffold and got killed.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The prisoners are led to the scaffold, where the hooded executioner waits, along with the Chieftain.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The workers carefully placed the scaffold against the building to start the renovation.

Synonyms

P

platform

vsscaffold

177 1.6

A raised flat surface where people stand or work, like a stage

is a full temporary structure supporting people and materials rather than a surface

S

scaffolding

vsscaffold

23 3.6

A temporary platform of boards and metal poles that workers use to reach high parts of a building

is a single temporary support structure rather than a whole system

A

armature

vsscaffold

3 7.5

A strong frame used to hold and shape a sculpture while it is made

is an external temporary support for workers and materials rather than an internal form

T

trestlework

vsscaffold

• Specialized

9.6

A frame of connected supports, often wooden, that holds a bridge or scaffolding

is a temporary support for workers rather than a fixed bridge or pier structure

How Big

scaffolding

23 3.6

scaffold

10 4.0

platform

177 1.6

Surface Forms

Etymology