scaffold
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- noun
- /ˈskæf.əld/
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- The artist used the scaffold to reach the top of the wall while painting the mural.
- scaffold support
- use a scaffold
And because of that, everything else now gets so complicated, mostly because we can't get rid of the scaffolding until we have this done.
- And because of that, everything else now gets so complicated, mostly because we can't get rid of the scaffolding until we have this done.
- And to be actually honest, I said I had a scaffolding pole on me.
- So we pulled up a sort of half bed truck on the pavement scaffold through the window.
- And when the thing the building is ready, you take the scaffold away and the object is the thing I the building that is ready.
Examples
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I fell off a scaffold about six months ago.
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To complete the repairs, the crew set up a large scaffold outside the old theater.
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Or we could take advantage of what nature had already done and use the scaffold that nature had created.
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We have all of the glass on the various levels of the scaffold ready to be installed.
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Get up there on the scaffold.
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Now, outside there is a scaffold.
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There's a painter's scaffold up there.
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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
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1.6
A raised flat surface where people stand or work, like a stage
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3.6
A temporary platform of boards and metal poles that workers use to reach high parts of a building
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7.5
A strong frame used to hold and shape a sculpture while it is made
A frame of connected supports, often wooden, that holds a bridge or scaffolding
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Etymology
Scaffold comes from an old French word eschafaud meaning 'raised platform' or 'stage'. So a scaffold is a temporary platform that holds workers or materials during building and repair.