scale

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Sinônimos

climb

balance

measure

ascend

dimension

peel

scope

shell

🐚

squama

gamut

size

gauge

weighing machine

extent

range

musical scale

bulk

fish scale

flake

weigh

steelyard

deposit

scales

meter

scramble

clamber

dial

plate

pluck

exfoliation

descale

scale of measurement

ruler

graduated table

ordered series

breadth

scurf

sediment

mount

squame

gradations

surmount

lamina

scab

linear measure

weighing scale

rate

fire-coat

vernier

plan

fur

husk

grade

climb up

structure

precipitate

dregs

skin

notation

lees

scale leaf

chart

💹

graph

fish

🐟

measurement

weight

calces

gradation

rule

plot

proportion

proportions

puke

quantity

rating

ratio

reading device

refuse

repertoire

rind

rise

roll scale

sc

scaling

scrape off

scum

scute

sequence

settlings

set up

shed

sheet

shin

shinny

slab

slough

sort

splinter

staircase

stature

strip

tartar

thorn

tile

trick

type

yardstick

be removed

climb on

scrabble

weighing instrument

half finished

claw one’s way up

lobulus

palta

spilliness

squamula

squamule

crack

take an equilibrium

take measurement

flat solid

scale beam

stapel scale

swarm up

gamus

mensurate

plotting scale

system of notation

limescale

sc.

counting process

hard covering

proportional scale

graphical units

comparing rule

oxide skin

forge scale

counting-frame

remove bark

fishscale

balance

mass meter

abacus

flaking skin

admeasurement

aileron

alula

area

array

beam

bigness

blade

bowl

brass

calibre

calliper

carapace

casing

category

challenge

circle

⭕

clean

come off

commencement

conquer

consider

crust

cut

cuticle

dander

dandruff

deposits

device

dimensions

display

dissepiment

division

escalade

figure

fish scales

flagstone

flake off

flakes

fragment

gadget

graduate

🎓

hard outer covering

incrustation

jump

key

🔑

kind

ladder

🪜

lamella

layer

libra

♎

Libra

♎

magnitude

major scale

mark out

mass

measure out

mechanism

mill scale

model

offset

oxide

pan

pare off

peel off

pellicle

pitch

plaque

Hifenizado como

sc‧ale

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/skeɪl/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: scale

Cognato com inglês arcaico: sċealu

Cognato com holandês: schaal

Cognato com alemão: Schale

Cognato com francês: écale

Cognato com dinamarquês: skål

In summary

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.

Frases

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

O peso do pacote foi visto em alta escala.

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

Portanto, a escala tem uma capacidade muito limitada de ajudar na implantação de desastres.