Scales

Definitions

1. A device for measuring weight.
   plural, plural-only
2. A surname.
3. The constellation and zodiacal sign Libra.
4. An unincorporated community in Sierra County, California, United States.
5. A small village in Aldingham parish, Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD2772).
6. A hamlet in Kirkoswald parish, Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5743).
7. A hamlet in Threlkeld parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY3426).

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Examples

“The butcher put⟳ the sausages on the scales.”

“Both Bobba and Coristine are listed in internal OPM records reviewed by WIRED as “experts” at OPM, reporting directly to Amanda Scales, its new chief of staff. Scales previously worked on talent for xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, and as part of Uber’s talent acquisition team, per LinkedIn.”

“The scales should be uneven, the northern exalted, the southern depressed.”

“Strange, too, how the old pagan names for the constellations—the Ram, the Bull, the Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Horned Goat, the Water-carrier, and the Fishes, have⟳ persisted all these thousands of years in spite of attempts made by philosophers of the Christian and other faiths to give⟳ them more prosaic or more religious names.”

“For they are so easy to recall⟳ if you do it in associated pairs—like⟳ the Maid and the Twins, the Bull and the Rain⟳, the Fishes and the Scales.”

“But the original figure⟳ was not forgotten: MUL.APIN still listed Libra as ‘The Scales, the horn of the Scorpion’[.]”

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