scaffold(Greek > Latin > French: beside, alongside)scaffold
1. A temporary framework of poles and planks that is used to support workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
2. An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed, usually by hanging. 3. A raised platform or stage for exhibiting spectacles, seating spectators, etc. 4. Any raised framework. 5. A suspended platform that is used by painters, window washers, and others for working on a tall structure; such as, a house, any building, a skyscraper, etc. 6. In metallurgy, any piling or fusion of materials in a blast furnace, obstructing the flow of gases and preventing the uniform descent of the charge. 7. A system of raised frameworks; scaffolding. 8. As a verb, to furnish with a scaffold or scaffolding. 9. To support by or to place on a scaffold. 10. In physiology, the anatomic or prosthetic support for the facial contour. 11. In genomic mapping, a series of contigs that are in the right order but not necessarily connected in one continuous stretch of sequence. Aphetic (disappearance or loss of an unstressed initial vowel or syllable) of an Old Norman French, variant of Old French eschafaut, "scaffold"; probably altered by the influence of eschace, "a prop, a support"; from chaffaut; from Vulgar Latin, catafalicum; from French catafalque, from Italian catafalco, "scaffold"; from Vulgar Latin catafalicum, from Greek kata-, "down"; used in Modern Latin with a sense of "beside, alongside" plus fala, "scaffolding". scaffoldage
1. A scaffold.
2. Shakespeare glossary: the gallery of a theater. scaffolded
1. To provide or support with a raised framework or platform.
2. To place on a raised framework or a platform on which theatrical performances are presented or an area in which actors perform. scaffolding, scaffoldings
1. A scaffold or system of scaffolds around or against a building.
2. Materials for building a scaffold; such as, the poles and planks used to build a scaffold. scaffold nail
A nail used in building temporary structures which has a stop on its shank to prevent its being driven in all the way and to leave the head free for pulling out later.
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