Scaffold

Quick meaning: Scaffold is a noun meaning A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
2. An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
3. (sciences) A structure that provides support for some other material.
4. (transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
5. (transitive) To sustain; to provide support for.
6. (metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
7. (pedagogy) A device in scaffolding, i.e. the provision a framework or support for achieving an intended outcome of internalizing learnings by way of collaboration and later gradual withdrawal of support.

Example Sentences

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.

On the day of RAIL 's site visit, in heavy weather, the scaffolding and decking that engineers stand on were submerged deep under choppy water, with work suspended. "We have to work around the tides," explained Project Director Alan Venables. "The wind pushes the tide up and the waves get larger. That causes some problems with the scaffold."

[…] Munoz et al. first proposed the following scaffold filling problem (on multichromosomal genomes with no gene repetition) as follows[…]. Given a complete (permutation) genome R and an incomplete scaffold S, fill the missing genes in R – S into S to have S′ such that the genomic distance […] between R and S′ is minimized. It was shown that this problem can be solved in polynomial time.

It is quicker and easier to use a ladder as a means of access, but it is not always the safest. Jobs, such as painting, gutter repair, demolition work or window replacement, are often easier done using a scaffold. If the work can be completed comfortably using ladders, a scaffold need not be considered. Scaffolds must be capable of supporting building workers, equipment, materials, tools and any accumulated waste.

Word Forms

• scaffolds
• scaffolding
• scaffolded

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shelf, studio, tower, construct, compound, assemblage.

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