scaffold
a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the construction, repair, or decoration of a building.
an elevated platform on which a criminal is executed, usually by hanging.
a raised platform or stage for shows or performances, the seating of spectators, etc.
any raised framework or system of such frameworks.
a suspended platform used by painters, window washers, and others for working on a tall structure, such as a skyscraper.
Cell Biology, Genetics. any of various extracellular framelike components found naturally in genomic material and synthesized for tissue engineering.
Metallurgy. any piling or fusion of materials in a blast furnace, obstructing the flow of gases and preventing the uniform descent of the charge.
to furnish (a building or other structure) with a system of temporary platforms for supporting workers and materials during construction, repairs, cleaning, etc.: Our team will scaffold the building in order to provide access for restorative work and maintenance.
to be the support or foundation for: All knowledge is scaffolded by its physical and social contexts.
Education.
to aid (learners or their learning) using a method in which support in the application of a new skill is gradually reduced until the individual learner can demonstrate it independently, after which the mastered skill becomes the basis for acquiring the next new skill in a similar way: Showing students how to do something can be an effective first step in scaffolding learning.The program scaffolds middle-school learners through the scientific inquiry process.
to design (learning materials, curriculum, etc.) to suit this method of instruction: This paper explains the model used to scaffold lessons for English language learners.
Origin of scaffold
1Other words from scaffold
- un·scaf·fold·ed, adjective
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How to use scaffold in a sentence
You, the parent, are the scaffold that surrounds the building.
The Strange Allure of a Flight to Nowhere (and Other Places We're Desperate to Go) | Susanna Schrobsdorff | February 7, 2021 | TimeAfter the cells grew and divided, the researchers placed them in a gel scaffold and bathed the cells in hormones.
No Trees Harmed: MIT Aims to One Day Grow Your Kitchen Table in a Lab | Jason Dorrier | January 24, 2021 | Singularity HubWithin this capsule the scientists could make out the stirrup-shaped basal plate, which acts as a scaffold for softer tissues such as the inflated phallus, Swanson said.
Feast your eyes on this 50-million-year-old assassin bug and its exquisite genitalia | Kate Baggaley | January 20, 2021 | Popular-ScienceWe basically create a scaffold that provides the right guidance…for cells to take up fats in different places or become more striated.
This Startup Is Growing Sushi-Grade Salmon From Cells in a Lab | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | September 16, 2020 | Singularity HubOther innovative approaches have used apples as scaffolds for ears, or added antibiotics and other medication directly inside 3D-printed bones to help battle inflammation.
Scientists 3D Printed Ears Inside Living Mice Using Light | Shelly Fan | June 9, 2020 | Singularity Hub
Two young black men stood under a scaffold outside the church trying to keep dry.
But of course no such “prophetic sight” or “spiritual glance,” as Villard also imagined it, carried that far from the scaffold.
When Robert E. Lee Met John Brown and Saved the Union | Michael Korda | May 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor me, technology is a delightfully helpful crutch to scaffold me into more advanced meditative practices.
High-Tech Meditation: Swap Your Yogi for a Headset | Gregory Ferenstein | April 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey were seeded in a lab onto a plastic scaffold, where it took less than a week for them to multiply and create a new windpipe.
And he walked into Lombard Street with the feelings of a culprit walking up the scaffold to his execution.
A Workman, who was mounted on a high scaffold to repair a town clock, fell from his elevated station, upon a man who was passing.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | VariousThe Tories were reminded that his soldiers had guarded the scaffold before the Banqueting House.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayShe was summoned to present herself before the Convention, to confront her accuser, and defend herself from the scaffold.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottMadame Roland had continued writing her memoirs until the hour in which she left her cell for the scaffold.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. Abbott
British Dictionary definitions for scaffold
/ (ˈskæfəld, -fəʊld) /
a temporary metal or wooden framework that is used to support workmen and materials during the erection, repair, etc, of a building or other construction
a raised wooden platform on which plays are performed, tobacco, etc, is dried, or (esp formerly) criminals are executed
to provide with a scaffold
to support by means of a scaffold
Origin of scaffold
1Derived forms of scaffold
- scaffolder, noun
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