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SCAFFOLD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("scaffold" is a kind of...):

arrangement (an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging)

Holonyms ("scaffold" is a part of...):

scaffolding; staging (a system of scaffolds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("scaffold" is a kind of...):

platform (a raised horizontal surface)

Holonyms ("scaffold" is a part of...):

instrument of execution (an instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with a scaffold for support

Example:

scaffold the building before painting it

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "scaffold" is one way to...):

hold; hold up; support; sustain (be the physical support of; carry the weight of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

scaffolding (a system of scaffolds)

Credits

 Context examples: 

To further test the ability of the scaffold to remove toxins, the scientists mixed red blood cells with melittin treated with the detoxification device.

(3-D gel-nanoparticle device detoxifies blood, NIH)

“No? Let's get the scaffolding up, then, for a pair of whiskers. Come!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

By using the meshwork of small blood vessels as a scaffold, glioblastoma cells were able to migrate along the vessels and extract nutrients from the blood for themselves.

(Brain tumor invasion along blood vessels may lead to new cancer treatments, NIH)

A filamentous extracellular structure that is rich in the glycoprotein, fibrillin-1, and found in connective tissues where it can act as a scaffold for elastin.

(Fibrillin Microfibrils, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes hematopoietic progenitor cell antigen CD34 immunoprotein, is involved in hematopoiesis and may mediate bone marrow extracellular matrix or stroma scaffold interactions.

(CD34 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Caveolin-1 is a 24 kD homooligomeric caveolar integral membrane protein that may organize signal transduction molecules as a scaffolding protein.

(Caveolin 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Cullins may act as a scaffold to promote the association of substrates with ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes.

(Cullin Family Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that makes up the bulk of the universe's mass and creates the scaffolding upon which galaxies are built.

(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)

Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any workmen at the moment of our visit.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The scaffold served as a structure onto which neurons could anchor themselves, and the gel encouraged axons to grow through it.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)