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How to pronounce “scaffold”
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Pronunciation guide for scaffold
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of scaffold with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Collagen’s Dirty Secret — and Its Clean Future
Collagen is nature's scaffold,
- Definition summary
- A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
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How to pronounce scaffold
Collagen’s Dirty Secret — and Its Clean Future

Collagen is nature's scaffold,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “scaffold”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
- An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
- An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
- (metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
- (sciences) A structure that provides support for some other material.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
- (transitive) To sustain; to provide support for.
- (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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