scale

Etymology 1
From, from , usually in plural , for , from ; see scan, ascend, descend, etc..

Noun

 * 1)   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.
 * 1)  A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
 * 2)   A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
 * 3)  A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
 * 4)  Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
 * 5)  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.
 * 1)  Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Hyponyms




Translations

 * Arabic: مِقْيَاس
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: шкала́
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Crimean Tatar: şkala
 * Czech:
 * Danish: skala
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ; ,
 * Korean: 눈금,
 * Lithuanian: skalė
 * Maori: tauine
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: skala
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgèile
 * Serbo-Croatian: ; stupnice
 * Slovak: škála, stupnica
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: talalakihan; sukuran, talasukuran, talasukatan
 * Telugu: ; ,
 * Ukrainian: шкала́


 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: машта́б
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: şkala
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Japanese: 大きさ,
 * Korean:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: skala
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: meudachd
 * Slovak: škála
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: talaantasan
 * Telugu: ,
 * Ukrainian: масшта́б


 * Arabic: مِيزَان
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: машта́б
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: şkala
 * Czech:
 * Danish: størrelsesforhold, målestok
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: קנה מידה
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 縮尺比
 * Khmer: មាត្រដ្ឋាន
 * Korean:
 * Lithuanian: mastelis
 * Maori: āwhata
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: skala
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgèile
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: škála
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: talalakihan
 * Telugu:
 * Ukrainian: масшта́б


 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese: ,


 * Arabic: سُلَّمٌ مُوسِيقِيّ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 音階
 * Hokkien: 音階
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: skala
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: សន្ទមាលា
 * Korean:
 * Latin: scala
 * Maori: āwhata
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: skala
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgèile
 * Slovak: stupnica
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: (音階)


 * Arabic:
 * Finnish:

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.
 * 1)  To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
 * 2)  To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
 * 1)  To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
 * 2)  To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
 * 1)  To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
 * 1)  To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: мащабирам
 * Czech: skálovat
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: mõõtmestama
 * Finnish:, muuttaa mittakaavaa, ,  , muuttaa kokoa
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Maori: whakatauine
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: škálovať
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ölçeklemek, ölçeklendirmek


 * Bulgarian: катеря се
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Ido:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: scandō, ascendō
 * Maori: kake, piki
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Slovak: škalovať


 * Finnish:
 * Slovak: vážiť

Etymology 2
From, from , from and/or , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, whence the modern doublet. Further cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

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.
 * 1) A scale insect.
 * 2) The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
 * 3)  An infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a.

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Adyghe:
 * Afrikaans:
 * Aghwan:
 * Ainu: ラㇺラㇺ
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: فَلْس, حَرْشَف
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: axça
 * Bashkir: тәңкә
 * Basque: ezkata
 * Bau Bidayuh: sisik
 * Belarusian: лу́ска
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: kalis
 * Central Melanau: sisiek, nap
 * Chamicuro: ijtaka
 * Chichewa: mamba
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: skæl
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: skvamo
 * Estonian: soomus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ქერცლი, ქერქლი, ქიცვი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λεπίς
 * Greenlandic: tattak
 * Hawaiian: unahi
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Schullep, Schupp
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: soomus
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: қабыршақ
 * Khmer:
 * Kimaragang: sisi
 * Korean:
 * Kunigami: 鱗
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao:, ຂອດ
 * Latin: squāma
 * Latvian: zvīņas
 * Lithuanian: žvynai
 * Macedonian: крлушка
 * Malay:
 * Maori: unahi
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: êcrède
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: skjell
 * Nynorsk: skjel
 * Occitan:, ,
 * Okinawan: 鱗
 * Old English: sċiell
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кр̏љӯшт, љу̏ска
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian: scagghia
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagal Murut: sisi'
 * Tagalog: kaliskis
 * Tajik: пулакча
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: лу́ска
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: tegül
 * West Coast Bajau: sisik
 * Yámana:
 * Yiddish: שופּ
 * Yucatec Maya:
 * Yup'ik:
 * Zazaki: pul
 * Zhuang:
 * Zulu:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Japanese:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Japanese:
 * Latvian: zvīņas
 * Tagalog: kalisdahon


 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian: накип
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: pajahilse
 * French:
 * Russian:
 * Sicilian: scagghia


 * Finnish: suomupanssari
 * French:
 * German: Schuppenpanzer
 * Persian:
 * Swedish: fjällpansar

Verb

 * 1)  To remove the scales of.
 * 2)  To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
 * 3)  To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
 * 4)  To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
 * 5) * 1684-1690,, Sacred Theory of the Earth
 * if all the mountains and hills were scaled, and the earth made even
 * 1)  To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
 * 2)  To scatter; to spread.
 * 3)  To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
 * if all the mountains and hills were scaled, and the earth made even
 * 1)  To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
 * 2)  To scatter; to spread.
 * 3)  To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
 * 1)  To scatter; to spread.
 * 2)  To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: suomustaa
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: აქერცვლა
 * German:
 * Japanese: 鱗を落とす, 鱗を除く
 * Kabuverdianu: skama, skamá
 * Lao:
 * Maori: unahi
 * Northern Sami: čuopmat
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ternate: tungi
 * Tetum: kiki
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Yiddish: שאָבן


 * Bulgarian: лющя се
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Japanese: ガサガサにする, 肌荒れを起こす
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: poistaa hilse
 * Georgian: აქერცვლა


 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish:

Etymology 3
From, from from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, German, Old High German , Old English.

Noun

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

Usage notes

 * The noun is often used in the plural to denote a single device (originally a pair of scales had two pans).

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: թաթ
 * Bulgarian: блюдо на везна
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πλάστιγξ
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: ថាសជញ្ជីង
 * Persian:
 * Polish: szala
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ча́ша весо́в
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тас
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: vågskål

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) flake

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) ladder

Etymology 3
From from.

Noun

 * 1) hut, hovel