scale

Meaning

Verb

1. To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
2. To climb to the top of.
3. To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
4. To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
2. An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
3. Size; scope.
4. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
5. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
6. A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
7. A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
8. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
9. 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.

Noun

1. 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.
2. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
3. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
4. 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.
5. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
6. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
7. Limescale.
8. A scale insect.
9. The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
10. An infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a disease.

Noun

1. A device to measure mass or weight.
2. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.

Concepts

scale

climb

balance

measure

dimension

ascend

peel

scope

shell

gamut

squama

size

gauge

extent

range

weighing machine

musical scale

bulk

deposit

fish scale

steelyard

flake

weigh

clamber

scramble

meter

scales

mount

breadth

ruler

gradations

sediment

descale

plate

exfoliation

scurf

graduated table

ordered series

scale of measurement

dial

squame

pluck

chart

graph

measurement

fur

scab

vernier

plan

structure

rule

linear measure

calces

dregs

lees

precipitate

surmount

scale leaf

husk

lamina

grade

gradation

rate

fire-coat

notation

weight

skin

fish

climb up

weighing scale

abacus

counting-frame

cut

figure

stature

casing

crust

hard outer covering

rind

conquer

rise

challenge

commencement

device

gadget

half finished

mechanism

set up

trick

claw one’s way up

pellicle

beam

weighing instrument

refuse

settlings

offset

take an equilibrium

come off

crack

flake off

strip

scrape off

mark out

take measurement

fragment

major scale

scale beam

stapel scale

gamus

calibre

ladder

sc.

tartar

Libra

consider

sc

cuticle

layer

be removed

scrabble

staircase

lamella

division

plot

admeasurement

circle

reading device

proportion

ratio

comparing rule

graphical units

plotting scale

proportional scale

forge scale

oxide

oxide skin

incrustation

rating

aileron

alula

lobulus

squamula

squamule

dimensions

counting process

system of notation

scute

scum

dissepiment

flakes

palta

spilliness

roll scale

key

pitch

pare off

remove bark

fishscale

peel off

splinter

thorn

proportions

hard covering

category

kind

sort

type

quantity

mass meter

jump

display

blade

scaling

dander

dandruff

climb on

escalade

shin

shinny

brass

flagstone

flat solid

plaque

puke

sheet

slab

tile

model

calliper

measure out

mensurate

repertoire

limescale

clean

deposits

mill scale

flaking skin

slough

sequence

array

bowl

pan

graduate

swarm up

shed

fish scales

carapace

libra

area

bigness

magnitude

mass

yardstick

Hyphenated as

sc‧ale

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skeɪl/

Etymology

From Middle English scale, from Latin scāla, usually in plural scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *skand-slā, from scandō (“I climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala.

Sentences

The weight of the package was seen on the high scale .

Therefore , the scale has a very limited ability to assist in disaster-aid deployment .