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Guillotine vs. Scaffold — What's the Difference?

Guillotine vs. Scaffold — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Guillotine and Scaffold

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Guillotine

A guillotine ( GHIL-ə-teen, also US: GHEE-, French: [ɡijɔtin] (listen)) is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade suspended at the top.

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.

Guillotine

A device consisting of a heavy blade held aloft between upright guides and dropped to behead a person condemned to die.

Scaffold

A raised wooden framework or platform.

Guillotine

An instrument, such as a paper cutter, similar in action to a guillotine.
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Scaffold

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

Guillotine

To behead with a guillotine.

Scaffold

To provide or support with a raised framework or platform.

Guillotine

To cut with a guillotine or sharp blade.

Scaffold

To place on a raised framework or platform.

Guillotine

A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.

Scaffold

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

Guillotine

(by extension)

Scaffold

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

Guillotine

A device or machine with a cutting blade.

Scaffold

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

Guillotine

To use a guillotine (on someone or something).

Scaffold

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

Guillotine

To execute (someone) with a guillotine.
Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution.

Scaffold

(sciences) A structure that provides support for some other material.

Guillotine

To cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine.

Scaffold

(transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.

Guillotine

(Britain) To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.

Scaffold

(transitive) To sustain; to provide support for.

Guillotine

(US) To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.

Scaffold

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

Guillotine

A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.

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.

Guillotine

Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.

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.

Guillotine

To behead with the guillotine.

Scaffold

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

Guillotine

Closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill

Scaffold

To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.

Guillotine

Instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people

Scaffold

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

Guillotine

Kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine;
The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country

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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