SCAFFOLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scaffold mean? 

• SCAFFOLD (noun)
  The noun SCAFFOLD has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: SCAFFOLD used as a noun is rare.

• SCAFFOLD (verb)
  The verb SCAFFOLD has 1 sense:

1. provide with a scaffold for support

  Familiarity information: SCAFFOLD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCAFFOLD (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

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)

• SCAFFOLD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they scaffold    ... he / she / it scaffolds   
Past simple: scaffolded   
Past participle: scaffolded   
-ing form: scaffolding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with a scaffold for support

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

scaffold the building before painting it

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)

 Context examples 

The protein scaffolding (the network of filaments microfilaments, microtubules, intermediate filaments, and their associated proteins) that gives shape, structure, and organization to the cytoplasm and a cell its shape.

(Cytoskeleton, NCI Thesaurus)

Cullins may act in these multisubunit complexes as a scaffold for substrates and ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes and interact with RBX1, RNF7, CYCE, and/or TIP120A/CAND1.

(Cullin Family Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A protein crystallographic technique, which utilizes a unique quality filter to create crystal structures which show both the target protein fold and the part of the scaffold that binds to it.

(Cocrystallography, NCI Thesaurus)

The cells and scaffolds were maintained in tissue culture for 38 days.

(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)

A complex comprised of gamma tubulin and other proteins that can act as a scaffold for the nucleation of microtubules.

(Gamma-Tubulin Ring Complex, NCI Thesaurus)

Paxillin and CAS also localize in focal adhesions and may serve as a scaffold for other integrin signaling components like FAK and src.

(Integrin Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Yes, those are the Privy Gardens, said my uncle, and there is the window out of which Charles took his last step on to the scaffold.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Will Hyde die upon the scaffold? or will he find courage to release himself at the last moment?

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A second possibility would involve a scaffold protein that interacts with ER.

(Pelp1 Estrogen Receptor Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A radioconjugate containing the purine scaffold heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) inhibitor PUH71 labeled with the radioisotope iodine I 124, with positron emitting activity.

(Iodine I 124-labeled Hsp90 Inhibitor PUH71, NCI Thesaurus)