different between scaffold vs adaptor

English

Etymology

From Middle English scaffold, scaffalde, from Anglo-Norman schaffaut, eschaffaut, eschafal, eschaiphal, escadafaut (“platform to see a tournament”) (Modern French échafaud), from Old French es- (“indicating movement away or separation”) (from Latin ex- (“out, away”)) + chafaud, chafaut, chafault, caafau, caafaus, cadefaut (“scaffold for executing a criminal”), from Vulgar Latin *catafalcum (“viewing stage”), possibly from Ancient Greek ????- (kata-, “back; against”) + Latin -falicum (from fala, phala (“wooden gallery or tower; siege tower”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?skæf?ld/, /?skæf??ld/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?skæf?ld/, /?skæfld/
• Hyphenation: scaf?fold
• Rhymes: -æf?ld

Noun

scaffold (plural scaffolds)

1. A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
2. An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
3. An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
4. (metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
5. (sciences) A structure that provides support for some other material.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

scaffold (third-person singular simple present scaffolds, present participle scaffolding, simple past and past participle scaffolded)

1. (transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
2. (transitive) To sustain; to provide support for.
3. (transitive) To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.

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Further reading

• scaffold in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• scaffold in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• scaffold at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From adapt +? -or.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?-d?p?t?r
• enPR: ?-d?p?t?r

Noun

adaptor (plural adaptors)

1. Alternative form of adapter

Derived terms

• AC-adaptor
• double-adaptor
• power adaptor

Latin

Verb

adaptor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of adapt?

Romanian

Etymology

From French adapteur

Noun

adaptor n (plural adaptoare)

1. adapter

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