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Definition of scaffold in English: scaffoldnoun ˈskaf(ə)ldˈskafəʊldˈskæfəld 1A raised wooden platform used formerly for the public execution of criminals. Example sentencesExamples - I had heard stories of those that had worked up the courage to try; their bodies swung from scaffolds in the middle of the town square so that any who were planning likewise understood the underlying and brutal message: To try is to loose.
- The marginal application of bread was inadvertently found by Queen Marie Antoinette of France who later paid with her head for her discovery on the scaffold during the French Revolution.
- At a minimum, it took a cartman to hire his team and his labor, a carpenter to build the scaffold, a hangman to do the job.
- Where the condemned husband-murderer is given the chance to testify publicly on the scaffold, the sati nearly always proceeds in silence.
- He was dangling from a hook, a few feet off a wooden scaffold.
- The granting of the charter itself featured prominently with artefacts from medieval life, including a quiver of arrows and the Earl of Derby's execution is marked with a replica scaffold and display featuring lilies.
- About a hundred male witnesses now filled the seats in the cellblock where the scaffold had been constructed, and outside a crowd of over five hundred of both sexes had begun to gather hours before.
- And it was a really appalling hanging, in the respect that the minister kept them on the scaffold waiting for 25 minutes as he gave a sermon.
- I've never had any desire to step into the limelight, so climbing on to the stage felt like mounting a scaffold.
- The criminal would mount the scaffold and stand upon this trapdoor, which would then open, precipitating the person into a fall of some feet.
- Several ‘executions’ had taken place within the past few days at Pentonville Prison on the scaffold, which had been the scene of the final exit of numerous notorious criminals.
- In Book 3 of the New Arcadia, Pamela utters her prayer shortly before she too is seen being taken to the scaffold for execution.
- On the scaffold, before the noose is placed about his neck, his chains and the rope that binds his hands are struck off, and he is asked what he has to say.
- Hester Prynne, convicted of adultery, is taken from the prison and set on the scaffold in the town square for public humiliation.
- After being whipped and branded on the scaffold, he had to stay in a workhouse for 12 years.
- There on the scaffold she suffered scorn and public admonishment.
- They were all angling for a better view of a simple wooden scaffold bearing a lone noose, which dangled in the breeze.
- Rupert Everett was beheaded at 2pm on January 30 in their simulated scaffold, just as Charles had been in 1649.
- Without Elizabeth's protection after 1569, moreover, Mary might well have knelt at the scaffold years before her execution in 1587.
- But whether displayed on a public scaffold in the eighteenth century, or the result of a scientific killing within the confines of a modern prison, the body of the executed criminal remains a vivid and striking symbol of the power of the law.
2A structure made using scaffolding. as modifier scaffold boards Example sentencesExamples - Two shots from within the future auditorium seem to tunnel through scores of crisscrossing scaffolds toward the stage as light filters down through swooping ceiling tarps.
- When setting a plank between ladders as a scaffold, be sure it extends a foot on each side and is clamped or nailed to its support
- Workers in red coveralls scurry around building scaffolds.
- Then, the printer prints the cells on to a plastic surface, which acts like a scaffold to support the cells.
- His arms were aching in pain as he swung above the floor of the scaffold.
- Spurred on by the sight of the scaffold and the thought of playing in mud for a good cause, I vowed to come back to help work on the walls.
- It was his business to depict palaces and royal chapels, but he did not hesitate to show them without majesty - under scaffolds or being repaired.
- Holes in the marble walls created by the original builder's wooden scaffold have further contributed to the weakness.
- Duncan and his entourage were perched on a hanging scaffold, like window washers.
- It is likely the tower will be dismantled piece by piece using a large crane and a scaffold to support the remaining structure.
- Working on roofs, high scaffolds, lift equipment or other areas where you're elevated well above ground level presents an ever-present hazard for professional and homeowner alike.
- The first sequence helps cells stick to the scaffold.
- The back view of the piece revealed a bleacher-like structure of shallow risers buttressed by a plywood scaffold supporting both the pulley and a large fan that kept the floating arch aloft.
- He stood in the shadows of a downtown Manhattan office building, shielded from the cold, driving rainstorm by the scaffold overhead and the leather trench coat covering his body.
- The lawyers consulted with two clients who had fallen from scaffolds, one who'd fallen from a ladder, and one who'd been scalded by hot water in her bathtub - all before lunch.
- A loose board crashes into a scaffold John is working on - more broken glass.
- Then we hit on friends and neighbors to contribute toe board brackets, toe boards, scaffolds, ladders and moral support.
- Everybody was agreed that it is good practice for the roofers, working on a roof of this sort, to work either from scaffolding, or on scaffold boards, or from access stagings which were placed on the roof.
- A builder was struck over the head with a scaffold pole after trying to stop thieves fleeing from a building site with a power tool.
verb ˈskaf(ə)ldˈskafəʊldˈskæfəld [with object]Attach scaffolding to (a building) they scaffolded the building, then removed the roof Example sentencesExamples - The work will require scaffolding the entire building including the spire but services to the public will not be interfered with as almost all of the work will be external.
- Glasgow-based Simon Starling's Ladder 5.4m is a scaffolded crow's nest on which you can just see welding gear.
- You'd ask Daz if he could scaffold your house.
- A senior council official said: ‘When we scaffolded it, it gave the inspector a closer examination of the stone and he was horrified to see bits coming off in his hand.’
- But my favourite pulpit - now we're on the subject - is hidden in the church of San Giovanni del Toro, opposite the closed, barred and scaffolded Caruso Belvedere hotel.
- About 60% of the building was scaffolded at one time.
- At present, the main fa¢ade on Kildare Street is scaffolded and covered with green protective netting.
- This will enable an early start on urgent work to the spire, which is due to be scaffolded at the end of March.
- Now, on the left-hand side, are the Pavilions, all scaffolded and covered by hoardings.
- At Winchester cathedral, for example, the west front must have remained scaffolded and unfinished for 25 years between the building of the lower porches in the mid-1340s and the resumption of work after 1370.
- The tower will be scaffolded throughout and the clock faces will be removed for refurbishment, re-glazing and re-gilding at the end of August.
- Once the 4m high hoarding is in place, the tower section will be scaffolded and work will begin.
Derivatives noun ˈskafəʊldə they're having some restoration done and the scaffolders were there from early morning Example sentencesExamples - But many of the scaffolders are very experienced and have worked on oil rigs and platform construction.
- Quite often, when there is an event in London, a contract may ask scaffolders to take work down and put it back up after the event, but we have not heard of anything like this before.
- But now the popular scaffolder has had it all shaved off - to raise almost £1, 000 for Naomi House children's hospice, after his friend's young child died of a rare genetic condition.
- In some cases insurers have closed ranks and blacklisted entire sectors - scaffolders, demolition firms and roofing companies, for example, are finding it virtually impossible to renew cover at any price.
- However now we have got the scaffolding up it seems sensible and more economical to do all the work at once rather than pay builders and scaffolders again next year and the year after.
Origin Middle English (denoting a temporary platform from which to repair or erect a building): from Anglo-Norman French, from Old French (e)schaffaut, from the base of catafalque. Definition of scaffold in US English: scaffoldnounˈskafəldˈskæfəld 1A raised wooden platform used formerly for the public execution of criminals. Example sentencesExamples - He was dangling from a hook, a few feet off a wooden scaffold.
- Several ‘executions’ had taken place within the past few days at Pentonville Prison on the scaffold, which had been the scene of the final exit of numerous notorious criminals.
- They were all angling for a better view of a simple wooden scaffold bearing a lone noose, which dangled in the breeze.
- The granting of the charter itself featured prominently with artefacts from medieval life, including a quiver of arrows and the Earl of Derby's execution is marked with a replica scaffold and display featuring lilies.
- After being whipped and branded on the scaffold, he had to stay in a workhouse for 12 years.
- On the scaffold, before the noose is placed about his neck, his chains and the rope that binds his hands are struck off, and he is asked what he has to say.
- And it was a really appalling hanging, in the respect that the minister kept them on the scaffold waiting for 25 minutes as he gave a sermon.
- I've never had any desire to step into the limelight, so climbing on to the stage felt like mounting a scaffold.
- Where the condemned husband-murderer is given the chance to testify publicly on the scaffold, the sati nearly always proceeds in silence.
- The marginal application of bread was inadvertently found by Queen Marie Antoinette of France who later paid with her head for her discovery on the scaffold during the French Revolution.
- There on the scaffold she suffered scorn and public admonishment.
- About a hundred male witnesses now filled the seats in the cellblock where the scaffold had been constructed, and outside a crowd of over five hundred of both sexes had begun to gather hours before.
- Rupert Everett was beheaded at 2pm on January 30 in their simulated scaffold, just as Charles had been in 1649.
- In Book 3 of the New Arcadia, Pamela utters her prayer shortly before she too is seen being taken to the scaffold for execution.
- Hester Prynne, convicted of adultery, is taken from the prison and set on the scaffold in the town square for public humiliation.
- I had heard stories of those that had worked up the courage to try; their bodies swung from scaffolds in the middle of the town square so that any who were planning likewise understood the underlying and brutal message: To try is to loose.
- The criminal would mount the scaffold and stand upon this trapdoor, which would then open, precipitating the person into a fall of some feet.
- At a minimum, it took a cartman to hire his team and his labor, a carpenter to build the scaffold, a hangman to do the job.
- But whether displayed on a public scaffold in the eighteenth century, or the result of a scientific killing within the confines of a modern prison, the body of the executed criminal remains a vivid and striking symbol of the power of the law.
- Without Elizabeth's protection after 1569, moreover, Mary might well have knelt at the scaffold years before her execution in 1587.
2A structure made using scaffolding. Example sentencesExamples - He stood in the shadows of a downtown Manhattan office building, shielded from the cold, driving rainstorm by the scaffold overhead and the leather trench coat covering his body.
- Everybody was agreed that it is good practice for the roofers, working on a roof of this sort, to work either from scaffolding, or on scaffold boards, or from access stagings which were placed on the roof.
- Then we hit on friends and neighbors to contribute toe board brackets, toe boards, scaffolds, ladders and moral support.
- When setting a plank between ladders as a scaffold, be sure it extends a foot on each side and is clamped or nailed to its support
- The lawyers consulted with two clients who had fallen from scaffolds, one who'd fallen from a ladder, and one who'd been scalded by hot water in her bathtub - all before lunch.
- His arms were aching in pain as he swung above the floor of the scaffold.
- Spurred on by the sight of the scaffold and the thought of playing in mud for a good cause, I vowed to come back to help work on the walls.
- Working on roofs, high scaffolds, lift equipment or other areas where you're elevated well above ground level presents an ever-present hazard for professional and homeowner alike.
- Workers in red coveralls scurry around building scaffolds.
- Two shots from within the future auditorium seem to tunnel through scores of crisscrossing scaffolds toward the stage as light filters down through swooping ceiling tarps.
- Duncan and his entourage were perched on a hanging scaffold, like window washers.
- Holes in the marble walls created by the original builder's wooden scaffold have further contributed to the weakness.
- A builder was struck over the head with a scaffold pole after trying to stop thieves fleeing from a building site with a power tool.
- A loose board crashes into a scaffold John is working on - more broken glass.
- It was his business to depict palaces and royal chapels, but he did not hesitate to show them without majesty - under scaffolds or being repaired.
- The back view of the piece revealed a bleacher-like structure of shallow risers buttressed by a plywood scaffold supporting both the pulley and a large fan that kept the floating arch aloft.
- It is likely the tower will be dismantled piece by piece using a large crane and a scaffold to support the remaining structure.
- The first sequence helps cells stick to the scaffold.
- Then, the printer prints the cells on to a plastic surface, which acts like a scaffold to support the cells.
verbˈskafəldˈskæfəld [with object]Attach scaffolding to (a building) they scaffolded the building, then removed the roof Example sentencesExamples - But my favourite pulpit - now we're on the subject - is hidden in the church of San Giovanni del Toro, opposite the closed, barred and scaffolded Caruso Belvedere hotel.
- This will enable an early start on urgent work to the spire, which is due to be scaffolded at the end of March.
- The tower will be scaffolded throughout and the clock faces will be removed for refurbishment, re-glazing and re-gilding at the end of August.
- At present, the main fa¢ade on Kildare Street is scaffolded and covered with green protective netting.
- Now, on the left-hand side, are the Pavilions, all scaffolded and covered by hoardings.
- The work will require scaffolding the entire building including the spire but services to the public will not be interfered with as almost all of the work will be external.
- At Winchester cathedral, for example, the west front must have remained scaffolded and unfinished for 25 years between the building of the lower porches in the mid-1340s and the resumption of work after 1370.
- Glasgow-based Simon Starling's Ladder 5.4m is a scaffolded crow's nest on which you can just see welding gear.
- About 60% of the building was scaffolded at one time.
- You'd ask Daz if he could scaffold your house.
- Once the 4m high hoarding is in place, the tower section will be scaffolded and work will begin.
- A senior council official said: ‘When we scaffolded it, it gave the inspector a closer examination of the stone and he was horrified to see bits coming off in his hand.’
Origin Middle English (denoting a temporary platform from which to repair or erect a building): from Anglo-Norman French, from Old French ( e)schaffaut, from the base of catafalque. |