Adherent vs Scaffold - What's the difference?
adherent | scaffold |
Adhesive, sticking to something.
Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
(botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
A structure made of scaffolding, for workers to stand on while working on a building.
An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
(metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
As nouns the difference between adherent and scaffold
is that adherent is a person who has membership in some group, association or religion while scaffold is a structure made of scaffolding, for workers to stand on while working on a building.As an adjective adherent
is adhesive, sticking to something.As a verb scaffold is
to set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.adherent
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- (Alexander Pope)
