Meaning of scale | Babel Free

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1. A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending
2. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
   countable, uncountable
3. ladder (a frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent)
4. A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
   obsolete
5. A device to measure mass or weight.
6. An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude
7. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
   countable, uncountable
8. To weigh with a scale.
9. scale (an ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude)
10. An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
11. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
12. Size; scope
13. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
    countable, uncountable
14. To have a given weight, as determined by a scale: cargo that scales 11 tons.
15. scale (a series of notes spanning an octave)
16. Size; scope.
17. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance
18. tip the scale(s), a. to weigh, esp. a large amount.
19. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
    countable, uncountable
20. ladder, hierarchy
21. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
22. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced
23. To remove the skin of:decorticate, pare, peel, skin, strip.
24. scale (the ratio of depicted distance to actual distance)
25. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
    uncountable
26. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
27. To move upward on or along:ascend, climb, go up, mount.
28. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
    countable, uncountable
29. A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
30. A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
31. to climb (a ladder, cliff etc). The prisoner scaled the prison walls and escaped. opklim يَتَسَلَّق السُّلَّم катеря се escalar slézt erklimmen klatre σκαρφαλώνωescalar ronima بالا رفتن از kiivetä escalader לְטַפֵּס עַל- बढ़ाना penjati se felmászik (vmire) memanjat klifra, klífa squama よじ登る 기어 오르다 užlipti, užkopti uzkāpt; pārkāpt memanjat beklimmen klatre opp/over, bestige wspiąć się na تلل escalar a escalada взбираться liezť, šplhať povzpeti se popeti se klättra uppför (upp på) ขึ้นบันได; ปี...
    etc
32. Limescale.
    uncountable
33. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
34. any of the small thin plates or flakes that cover the skin of fishes, reptiles etc. A herring's scales are silver in colour. skub حَرْشَف السَّمَك люспа escama šupina die Schuppe skæl λέπι, φολίδαescama soomus فلس؛پولك suomu écailleקשקש परत, तह ljuska, krljušt pikkely sisik hreisturflaga うろこ 비늘 žvynas zvīņa(s) sisik schubskjellłuska پوستكى، ( لكه دكب ، مار ، او نورو) نرى بترى، پانګى escama solz чешуйка šupina luska krljušt fjäll เกล็ด pul, kabuk 鱗 луска مچھلی وغیرہ کی جلد کا کھپرا lớp gỉ, vảy...
    etc
35. A scale insect.
    countable, uncountable
36. A standard amount of money to be paid for a service, for example union-negotiated amounts received by a performer or writer; similar to wage scale or pay grade.
37. (of fish etc) covered with scales. skubagtig حَرْشَفي люспест escamoso šupinatý schuppig skællet σκεπασμένος με λέπια, φολιδωτόςescamoso soomuseline فلس دار suomuinen écailleux מְכוּסֶה קַשקָשִים शल्की, पपड़ीार prekriveno ljuskama pikkelyes bersisik hreistraður squamoso うろこのある 비늘로 뒤덮인 žvynuotas zvīņains bersisik geschubdskjell-, skjellet łuskowaty پوستكى escamoso solzos чешуйчатый šupinatý luskast koji ima krljušt fjällig, fjäll- ซึ่งเป็นเกล็ด pullu, kabuklu (魚類等)有鱗的 лускатий جلد پر گھپروں سے...
    etc
38. The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
    countable, uncountable
39. One of the many small hard dermal or epidermal structures that characteristically form the external covering of fishes and reptiles and certain mammals, such as pangolins.
40. An infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a disease.
    US, uncountable
41. A small, thin, often flattened plant structure, such as one of the modified leaves that cover a tree bud or one of the structures that bear the reproductive organs on the cones of a conifer.

Equivalents

Examples

“Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.”

“The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.”

“There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.”

“We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.”

“This map uses a scale of 1:10.”

“Even though precision can be carried to an extreme, the scales which now are drawn in (and usually connected to an appropriate figure by an arrow) will allow derivation of meaningful measurements.”

“the decimal scale, the binary scale”

“There is a certain scale of duties […] which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion.”

“City's players and supporters travelled from one end of the emotional scale to the other in those vital seconds, providing a truly remarkable piece of football theatre and the most dramatic conclusion to a season in Premier League history.”

“Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.”

“Fish that, with their fins and shining scales, / Glide under the green wave.”

“After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.”

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