Scaffold vs Differentiate - What's the difference?
scaffold | differentiate |
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.
To show, or be the distinction between two things.
* Earle
* {{quote-book, year=1933
, passage=The mass of the rich and poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.
, author=George Orwell, title=Down and Out in Paris and London, chapter=Ch. XXII, page=120, publisher=Harvest / Harcourt paperback edition}}
To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.
* {{quote-book, title=, year=1964
, passage=he refused to instruct that actual intent to harm or recklessness had to be found before punitive damages could be awarded, or that a verdict for respondent should differentiate between compensatory and punitive damages.}}
(intransitive) To modify, or be modified.
(mathematics) To calculate the derivative of a function.
(mathematics) To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.
(biology) To produce distinct organs or to achieve specific functions by a process of development called differentiation.
* {{quote-book, title=, year=1930, author=Robert Evans Snodgrass
, passage=In Chapter IV we learned that every animal consists of a body, or soma, formed of cells that are differentiated from the germ cells usually at an early stage of development.}}
In lang=en terms the difference between scaffold and differentiate
is that scaffold is to set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding while differentiate is to perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.As verbs the difference between scaffold and differentiate
is that scaffold is to set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding while differentiate is to show, or be the distinction between two things.As a noun scaffold
is a structure made of scaffolding, for workers to stand on while working on a building.scaffold
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* go to the scaffold * send to the scaffold * superscaffold, superscaffoldingDerived terms
* scaffoldage * scaffolder * scaffoldingExternal links
* * *differentiate
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Verb
(differentiat)- The word "then" was differentiated into the two forms "then" and "than".
