scaffolding

English

Scaffolding

Noun

scaffolding (usually uncountable, plural scaffoldings)

1. A temporary modular system of tubes (or formerly wood) forming a framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures.
   • 2007 December 21, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     […] transparent scaffoldings partially draped with often hallucinatory nets of lines, gouges, hatching and cross-hatching that somehow also depict varying degrees of flesh, features and expression.

2. (programming) Source code etc. that is incomplete and serves as a basis for further development.
3. (figurative) Any framework or support.

Related terms

• scaffold
• scaffolder

Translations

system of tubes or poles used to support people and material

• Arabic: سِقَالَات f pl (siqālāt)

  Egyptian Arabic: سَقَّالَات f pl (saʾʾalāt)

• Armenian: փայտամած (hy) (pʻaytamac), լաստակ (hy) (lastak)
• Bashkir: баҫма (baśma)
• Catalan: bastida (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腳手架／脚手架 (zh) (jiǎoshǒujià), 脚手架 (zh) (jiǎoshǒujià)

• Czech: lešení n
• Dutch: steiger (nl) c
• Esperanto: skafaldo (eo)
• Estonian: tellingud (et) pl
• Finnish: rakennusteline
• French: échafaudage (fr) m
• Georgian: ხარაჩო (ka) (xaračo)
• German: Gerüst (de) n
• Greek: σκαλωσιά (el) f (skalosiá)
• Hungarian: állványzat (hu), állvány (hu)
• Ido: eshafodo (io)
• Irish: scafalra m
• Italian: ponteggio (it) m, impalcatura (it) f
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• Japanese: 足場 (あしば, ashiba)
• Korean: 비계 (飛階, bigye)
• Manx: scammalt m
• Maori: rangitupu, tīrewa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stillas (no) n

  Nynorsk: stillas n

• Polish: rusztowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: andaime m
• Romanian: eşafodaj (ro) n
• Russian: леса́ (ru) pl (lesá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: скеле pl

  Roman: skele pl

• Spanish: andamiaje (es), andamio (es)
• Swedish: byggnadsställning (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: iskele (tr)
• Vietnamese: giàn (vi)
• Welsh: sgaffaldiau pl

Verb

scaffolding

1. present participle of scaffold