scaffold vs superstructure

scaffold

noun
  • A structure that provides support for some other material. 

  • 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 accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace. 

  • An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes. 

verb
  • To sustain; to provide support for. 

  • To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding. 

  • To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes. 

superstructure

noun
  • Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis. 

  • The sleepers and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed. 

  • The social sphere of ideology which includes religion, art, politics, law and all traditional values. 

  • Any structure built above the top full deck (FM 55-501). 

  • All that part of a building above the basement. 

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