Lexic.us

Definition of Scale

1. Noun. An ordered reference standard. "Judging on a scale of 1 to 10"

2. Verb. Measure by or as if by a scale. "This bike scales only 25 pounds"

3. Verb. Pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard.

4. Noun. Relative magnitude. "They entertained on a grand scale"

5. Verb. Take by attacking with scaling ladders. "The troops scaled the walls of the fort"

6. Noun. The ratio between the size of something and a representation of it. "The scale of the model"

7. Verb. Reach the highest point of. "We scaled the Mont Blanc"

8. Noun. A specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin.

9. Verb. Climb up by means of a ladder.

10. Noun. A thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin.

11. Verb. Remove the scales from. "Scale fish"

12. Noun. (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave).

13. Verb. Measure with or as if with scales. "Scale the gold"

14. Noun. A measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass.

15. Noun. An indicator having a graduated sequence of marks.

16. Verb. Size or measure according to a scale. "This model must be scaled down"

17. Noun. A metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners).

18. Noun. A flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals.

Definition of Scale

1. n. The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively.

2. v. t. To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system.

3. n. One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid.

4. v. t. To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler.

5. v. i. To separate and come off in thin layers or laminæ; as, some sandstone scales by exposure.

6. n. A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.

7. v. t. To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort.

8. v. i. To lead up by steps; to ascend.

Definition of Scale

1. Noun. An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement. ¹

2. Noun. Size; scope. ¹

3. Noun. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance. ¹

4. Noun. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced ¹

5. Noun. A means of assigning a magnitude. ¹

6. Noun. (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies. ¹

7. Noun. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive) 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. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) To climb to the top of. ¹

10. Verb. (intransitive) (''computing'') To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors. ¹

11. Noun. 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. ¹

12. Noun. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color. ¹

13. Noun. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis. ¹

14. Noun. A pine nut of a pinecone. ¹

15. Noun. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal. ¹

16. Noun. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail). ¹

17. Noun. Limescale ¹

18. Verb. (transitive) To remove the scales of. ¹

19. Verb. (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales. ¹

20. Noun. A device to measure mass or weight. ¹

21. Noun. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scale

1. to climb up or over [v SCALED, SCALING, SCALES]

Medical Definition of Scale

1. A reduced or rudimentary leaf, for example surrounding a dormant bud, a thin flap of tissue, for example on the ventral surface of a liverwort thallus and at the base of a stamen in members of the family Simaroubaceae. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scale

scalded scalded milk scalded skin syndrome scalder scalders scaldfish scaldfishes scalding scaldingly scaldings

scaldini scaldino scalds scale-up scale-winged scale degree scale degrees scale down scale factor scale fern

scale insect scale invariance scale leaf scale mail scale mails scale model scale moss

Literary usage of Scale

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"It consists of an auxiliary scale of n intervals sliding in contact with the scale to be read, and occupying therein a space of nil intervals. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The Absolute Pitch of Tones, that is the pitch independent of scale ... In the major scale the semi-tones occur between the third and fourth notes and ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1879)
"Gwalior and Central India, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, sheets 78, 81, 82.—Gwalior Fortress and City, and Morar Cantonment, 1876-77, in 4 sections, scale 6 ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1880)
"scale 4 miles to 1 inch.— Punjab Revenue Survey. Shekh Budin Sanitarium. ... scale 16 inches to 1 mile. Season 1874-75. On 2 sheets. ..."

5. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"It originated in the Huey scale. No matter what the age of the person under ... After the point-scale examination has been made, the results may be ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"It consists of an auxiliary scale of n intervals sliding in contact with the scale to be read, and occupying therein a space of nil intervals. ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The Absolute Pitch of Tones, that is the pitch independent of scale ... In the major scale the semi-tones occur between the third and fourth notes and ..."

8. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1879)
"Gwalior and Central India, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, sheets 78, 81, 82.—Gwalior Fortress and City, and Morar Cantonment, 1876-77, in 4 sections, scale 6 ..."

9. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1880)
"scale 4 miles to 1 inch.— Punjab Revenue Survey. Shekh Budin Sanitarium. ... scale 16 inches to 1 mile. Season 1874-75. On 2 sheets. ..."

10. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"It originated in the Huey scale. No matter what the age of the person under ... After the point-scale examination has been made, the results may be ..."

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