Falsework vs. Scaffold — What's the Difference?

Falsework consists of temporary structures used in construction to support a permanent structure until its construction is sufficiently advanced to support itself. For arches, this is specifically called centering.

A temporary platform, either supported from below or suspended from above, on which workers sit or stand when performing tasks at heights above the ground.

(engineering) A temporary framework used in the building of bridges and arched structures in order to hold items in place until the structure is able to support itself.

A raised wooden framework or platform.

(engineering) Scaffolding, a temporary frame serving to support and brace a building under construction until it can stand alone.

A platform used in the execution of condemned prisoners, as by hanging or beheading.

To provide or support with a raised framework or platform.

To place on a raised framework or platform.

A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.

An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed. Category:en:Capital punishment

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.

(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.

A temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators at a show, etc.

Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.

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

To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.

A platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)

A temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers

Provide with a scaffold for support;