scales
/skeɪlz/ · noun
Meaning
- A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
- Size; scope.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
- A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- 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.
- To climb to the top of.
- To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- 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.
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- 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.
- The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- To remove the scales of.
- To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
- To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- To scatter; to spread.
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
- A device for measuring weight.
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