scaffold

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  1. noun 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.
  2. noun A raised wooden framework or platform.
  3. noun A platform used in the execution of condemned prisoners, as by hanging or beheading.
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  • At the foot of the scaffold was a long bench on which the victims were told to sit. —  Ruin of a Princess
  • This scaffold is a step toward developing new kinds of cell culture systems that can be used to grow cells to reconstruct damaged tissues, says chemical engineer —  HHMI News
  • "The whole idea of building a scaffold is a unique idea," said AHA spokesman Dr. Russell V. Luepker, the Mayo professor of epidemiology and community health at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. —  Latest Articles
  • Then the researchers layered another sheet of fibroblasts on the outside of this scaffold, which is dense enough to prevent the cells from easily migrating to the inside of the engineered vessel. —  Latest Articles
  • By decree of the Assembly the scaffold was again to be set up in the Place de la Rιvolution. —  Dieux ont soif. English
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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin scaffaldus, of Old French origin.

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  1. from Middle English scaffold, scaffolde, skaffold, scafold, scafald, scafalde, schaffalde, scalfalde, from Old French *escafalt, eschafault, eschafaud, eschaafaut, French échafaud, Old French also chafaut (later D. schavot = German schafott = Swedish schavott = Danish skafot) and earlier escadefalt, escadafaut (Middle Latin reflex scafaldus, scadafaltum); with expletive prefix es-, orig. Old French cadefaut, *catafalc, French catafalque = Provencal cadafalc = Spanish cadafalso, cadahalso, cadalso, also catafalco = Portuguese cadafalso, also catafalco = Italian catafalco, a funeral canopy over a bier, a stage, scaffold; prob. orig. Italian (and not common Roman), literally ‘a view-stage’ (cf. cataletto, ‘a view-bed’), from Old Italian *catare, see, view (found as Italian cattare, get, obtain, etc.), Italian dial. catar, find (= Old Spanish catar, see, view, from Latin captare, strive to seize, strive after, seek to obtain, watch), + falco, irreg. variant of balco, a stage, orig. beam, balk: see balk, and cf. balcony. The same initial element (Italian cattare, etc., Latin captare) appears in regatta, regrate; and the same Italian word catafalco has come through F. catafalque into English as catafalque: see catafalque.
  2. from scaffold, n.
 

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