Scaffold
noun
A temporary structure used by workers while building, repairing, or painting a big structure or building.
He climbed up the scaffold to reach the top of the building.
Often appears as...
- climb a scaffold
- set up a scaffold
noun
A system or process that helps something to happen or develop.
The teacher provided a scaffold to help the students understand the complex topic.
Often appears as...
- provide a scaffold
- create a scaffold
noun
The structure on which a person was beheaded or hanged in the past.
In the past, criminals were executed on a scaffold.
verb
To support or aid something using a system or process.
The lesson was scaffolded to cater for students at different levels of understanding.
Often appears as...
- scaffold a lesson
- scaffold a process
noun
A temporary structure used by workers while building, repairing, or painting a big structure or building.
He climbed up the scaffold to reach the top of the building.
Often appears as...
- climb a scaffold
- set up a scaffold
noun
A system or process that helps something to happen or develop.
The teacher provided a scaffold to help the students understand the complex topic.
Often appears as...
- provide a scaffold
- create a scaffold
noun
The structure on which a person was beheaded or hanged in the past.
In the past, criminals were executed on a scaffold.
verb
To support or aid something using a system or process.
The lesson was scaffolded to cater for students at different levels of understanding.
Often appears as...
- scaffold a lesson
- scaffold a process
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Construction Context
Understand 'scaffold' as part of building vocabulary, often linked with construction.
A new scaffold surrounds the old church.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary Use
'Scaffold' implies a provisional aid that will be removed after the project's end.
Once the repairs are done, the scaffolds will be removed.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Framework
Focus on 'scaffold' as a physical structure that workers can stand on.
The painters stood on the scaffold while painting the wall.
Pro Tip 1/3Construction Context
Understand 'scaffold' as part of building vocabulary, often linked with construction.
A new scaffold surrounds the old church.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary Use
'Scaffold' implies a provisional aid that will be removed after the project's end.
Once the repairs are done, the scaffolds will be removed.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Framework
Focus on 'scaffold' as a physical structure that workers can stand on.
The painters stood on the scaffold while painting the wall.
Pro Tip 1/3Construction Context
Understand 'scaffold' as part of building vocabulary, often linked with construction.
A new scaffold surrounds the old church.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary Use
'Scaffold' implies a provisional aid that will be removed after the project's end.
Once the repairs are done, the scaffolds will be removed.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Framework
Focus on 'scaffold' as a physical structure that workers can stand on.
The painters stood on the scaffold while painting the wall.
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Drew Berry: Animations...
One is bundled up into one sausage. The other strand is bundled up into the other sausage. These things that look like whiskers that are sticking out from either side are the dynamic scaffolding of the cell. They're called microtubules, that name's not important. But we're going to focus on the region labeled red here --
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Sending Humans to Mars:...
next thing you do. Maybe you use a piece of your booster to build the first structure, right? Maybe you recycle it in that way. So you hope, first, that there's a cost savings. You hope that there's a sort of efficiency that you can build in. And third, that you can use it as a scaffolding for the next thing.
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Printing a human kidney...
that we call the field of regenerative medicine. It really involves many different areas. You can use, actually, scaffolds, biomaterials -- they're like the piece of your blouse or your shirt -- but specific materials you can actually implant in patients and they will do well and help you regenerate.
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5 skin health myths to...
It's a scaffold of collagen that's home to blood vessels, hair follicles and glands. It's also packed with special nerve cells called sensory receptors that allow us to feel pressure, vibration, even pain, some of which extend into the epidermis. The dermis also helps regulate temperature.
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The Blind Spots of the...
But we won't achieve a climate-safe future without peace. And to build peace, we need to shake things up in international politics and in the way that we do business and economics. So where do we start? I'd like to offer the scaffolding of a plan in four different baskets.
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Printing a human kidney...
regenerative medicine it really involves many different areas you can use actually scaffolds biomaterials they're like the piece of your blouse or your shirt but specific materials you can actually implanted patients and they will do well and help you regenerate or
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Cell membranes are way...
that allow specific molecules through, like sodium and potassium ions. Peripheral proteins floating in the inner face of the bilayer help anchor the membrane to the cell's interior scaffolding. Other proteins in cell membranes can help fuse two different bilayers.
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Design at the...
And after four weeks of feeding, they were ready to spin with us. We placed them carefully at the bottom rim of the scaffold, and as they spin they pupate, they mate, they lay eggs, and life begins all over again -- just like us but much, much shorter.
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The building of...
physically removed from a public gathering because he held a radical belief he boldly insisted I will build the cupola without the need for any central scaffolding this was an
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How we're harnessing...
They recognize each other and self-assemble into structures -- scaffolds on which cells are proliferating to give tissues. They develop into organs, and together bring life.
Video examples
Drew Berry: Animations...
One is bundled up into one sausage. The other strand is bundled up into the other sausage. These things that look like whiskers that are sticking out from either side are the dynamic scaffolding of the cell. They're called microtubules, that name's not important. But we're going to focus on the region labeled red here --
Video examples
Sending Humans to Mars:...
next thing you do. Maybe you use a piece of your booster to build the first structure, right? Maybe you recycle it in that way. So you hope, first, that there's a cost savings. You hope that there's a sort of efficiency that you can build in. And third, that you can use it as a scaffolding for the next thing.
Video examples
Printing a human kidney...
that we call the field of regenerative medicine. It really involves many different areas. You can use, actually, scaffolds, biomaterials -- they're like the piece of your blouse or your shirt -- but specific materials you can actually implant in patients and they will do well and help you regenerate.
Video examples
5 skin health myths to...
It's a scaffold of collagen that's home to blood vessels, hair follicles and glands. It's also packed with special nerve cells called sensory receptors that allow us to feel pressure, vibration, even pain, some of which extend into the epidermis. The dermis also helps regulate temperature.
Video examples
The Blind Spots of the...
But we won't achieve a climate-safe future without peace. And to build peace, we need to shake things up in international politics and in the way that we do business and economics. So where do we start? I'd like to offer the scaffolding of a plan in four different baskets.
Video examples
Printing a human kidney...
regenerative medicine it really involves many different areas you can use actually scaffolds biomaterials they're like the piece of your blouse or your shirt but specific materials you can actually implanted patients and they will do well and help you regenerate or
Video examples
Cell membranes are way...
that allow specific molecules through, like sodium and potassium ions. Peripheral proteins floating in the inner face of the bilayer help anchor the membrane to the cell's interior scaffolding. Other proteins in cell membranes can help fuse two different bilayers.
Video examples
Design at the...
And after four weeks of feeding, they were ready to spin with us. We placed them carefully at the bottom rim of the scaffold, and as they spin they pupate, they mate, they lay eggs, and life begins all over again -- just like us but much, much shorter.
Video examples
The building of...
physically removed from a public gathering because he held a radical belief he boldly insisted I will build the cupola without the need for any central scaffolding this was an
Video examples
How we're harnessing...
They recognize each other and self-assemble into structures -- scaffolds on which cells are proliferating to give tissues. They develop into organs, and together bring life.
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Geraldine Brooks
Australian Journalist
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.
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Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
To any young person starting out on life and looking to make a quick fortune, I have this advice: forget banking, but go instead into security, scaffolding, or urban trench digging. Not in a hands-on way. I mean start a company.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss Philosopher
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
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Kellan Lutz
American Actor
I don't really like the gym. I like to fool my body. I run around the beach and then there's scaffolding so I can just do different pulls-ups there.
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Gray Scott
American Philosopher
Technology will mirror the culture and the psychology creating it. We need new psychological scaffolding to work with. Less fear and more optimism.
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Benito Mussolini
Italian Politician
The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
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Wendell Phillips
American Activist
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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James Russell Lowell
American Poet
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
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Mary Harris Jones
American Activist
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
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Pierre Corneille
French Dramatist
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
Quote examples
Geraldine Brooks
Australian Journalist
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.
Quote examples
Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
To any young person starting out on life and looking to make a quick fortune, I have this advice: forget banking, but go instead into security, scaffolding, or urban trench digging. Not in a hands-on way. I mean start a company.
Quote examples
Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss Philosopher
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
Quote examples
Kellan Lutz
American Actor
I don't really like the gym. I like to fool my body. I run around the beach and then there's scaffolding so I can just do different pulls-ups there.
Quote examples
Gray Scott
American Philosopher
Technology will mirror the culture and the psychology creating it. We need new psychological scaffolding to work with. Less fear and more optimism.
Quote examples
Benito Mussolini
Italian Politician
The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
Quote examples
Wendell Phillips
American Activist
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Quote examples
James Russell Lowell
American Poet
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
Quote examples
Mary Harris Jones
American Activist
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
Quote examples
Pierre Corneille
French Dramatist
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
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