1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Scaffold

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A temporary platform, either supported from below or suspended from above, on which workers sit or stand when performing tasks at heights above the ground.

n. A raised wooden framework or platform.

n. A platform used in the execution of condemned prisoners, as by hanging or beheading.

v. To provide or support with a raised framework or platform.

v. To place on a raised framework or platform.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

n. An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.

v. To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators at a show, etc.

n. Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal.

n. An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyères in a blast furnace.

v. To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A temporary gallery or stage raised either as a place for exhibiting a spectacle or for spectators to stand or sit.

n. The gallery or highest tier of seats in a theater.

n. A stage or platform, usually elevated, for the execution of a criminal.

n. A temporary structure upon which workmen stand in erecting the walls of a building. See cut under putlog.

n. An elevated platform upon which dead bodies are placed—a mode of disposing of the dead practised by some tribes, as of North American Indians, instead of burial; a kind of permanent bier.

n. In embryology, a temporary structure outlining parts to be subsequently formed in or upon it; a framework: as, the cartilaginous scaffold of the skull. Also scaffolding.

n. In metallurgy, an obstruction in the blast-furnace above the twyers, caused by the imperfect working of the furnace in consequence of insufficient or unsuitable flux, bad fuel, irregular charging, etc.

To furnish with a scaffold; sustain; uphold, as with a scaffold.

To lay or place on a scaffold; particularly, to place (dead bodies) on a scaffold to decay or be eaten by birds, as is customary with some uncivilized tribes.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)

v. provide with a scaffold for support

n. a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers

Word Usage

"I think the best way to scaffold is to assess your students, give them something a bit challenging, and then work backwards as much as you need to to eventually provide enough support that they can accomplish the task or participate in the class successfully."

Verb Form

scaffolded scaffolding scaffolds

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

platform support sustain hold holdup arrangement

Cross Reference

hanging scaffold

Form

send to the scaffold go to the scaffold scaffolder scaffoldage scaffolding

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

platform

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

baffled

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

gallows gibbet scaffolding pillory dais