Gable vs. Scaffold — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Gable and Scaffold
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Gable
A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesthetic concerns.
Scaffold
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.
Gable
The triangular upper part of a wall at the end of a ridged roof
A house with mock-Tudor gables
Scaffold
A raised wooden framework or platform.
Gable
The generally triangular section of wall at the end of a pitched roof, occupying the space between the two slopes of the roof.
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Scaffold
A platform used in the execution of condemned prisoners, as by hanging or beheading.
Gable
The whole end wall of a building or wing having a pitched roof.
Scaffold
To provide or support with a raised framework or platform.
Gable
A triangular, usually ornamental architectural section, as one above an arched door or window.
Scaffold
To place on a raised framework or platform.
Gable
(architectural element) The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).
Scaffold
A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
Gable
(archaic) A cable.
Scaffold
An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed. Category:en:Capital punishment
Gable
A cable.
Scaffold
An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
Gable
The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like.
Scaffold
(metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
Gable
The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof
Scaffold
(sciences) A structure that provides support for some other material.
Gable
United States film actor (1901-1960)
Scaffold
(transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
Scaffold
(transitive) To sustain; to provide support for.
Scaffold
(transitive) To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.
Scaffold
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.
Pardon, gentles all,The flat, unraised spirits that have daredOn this unworthy scaffold to bring forthSo great an object.
Scaffold
Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.
That a scaffold of execution should grow a scaffold of coronation.
Scaffold
An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyères in a blast furnace.
Scaffold
To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.
Scaffold
A platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
Scaffold
A temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
Scaffold
Provide with a scaffold for support;
Scaffold the building before painting it
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