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单词 scaffold
释义

scaffold

noun

scaf·​fold ˈska-fəld How to pronounce scaffold (audio)
 also  -ˌfōld
1
a
: a temporary or movable platform for workers (such as bricklayers, painters, or miners) to stand or sit on when working at a height above the floor or ground
b
: a platform on which a criminal is executed (as by hanging or beheading)
c
: a platform at a height above ground or floor level
2
: a supporting framework

Example Sentences

The condemned man was led to the scaffold.
Recent Examples on the Web Reva Medical will use the new funding for general corporate purposes, including moving forward with a clinical trial program for its MOTIV-brand bio-resorbable scaffold. Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022 With the exception of bacterial and archaeal cells, all cells contain a scaffold-like structure —known as the cytoskeleton— made up of interlinking protein filaments. William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 As a sure sign of how the preservation spirit is taking hold in the neighborhood, a construction crew has built a scaffold around the tower of what was Booker T. Washington School, a junior high school at McCulloh Street and West Lafayette Avenue. Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2022 At Homme Plissé Issey Miyake, dancers from Chaillot Théâtre National de la Danse clambered down a scaffold to fly or race about a sunlit interior. New York Times, 29 June 2022 But as the ancient sages once mused, ars longa, vita brevis (life is short, art is long), and in 1968, Grimes came to an unfortunate end, falling to his death from a scaffold outside the plant. Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2022 After assembling the scaffold, Stebbing had gotten to work, donning ear protectors and firing up his chain saw. Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2022 The process of culturing the thymus clears any of the donor's mature immune cells, leaving a scaffold of a thymus for the recipient to develop their own immune cells through. Tasnim Ahmed, CNN, 10 Mar. 2022 The staging, by director Moisés Kaufman, can often feel like a churning exercise in traffic control, with all or most of the sizable ensemble cluttered onto designer Allen Moyer’s rotating black-scaffold set. Naveen Kumar, Variety, 3 Apr. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from Anglo-French scaffald, alteration of Old French eschaafauz, escafaut, alteration of chaafaut, from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum — more at catafalque

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Kids Definition

scaffold

noun

scaf·​fold ˈska-fəld How to pronounce scaffold (audio)
1
: a raised platform built as a support for workers and their tools and materials
2
: a platform on which executions take place

scaffold

noun

as in platform
a raised flat surface Standing on a scaffold, the workers replaced the broken twelfth-story window.

Synonyms & Similar Words

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