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(verb) size or measure according to a scale |
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Related Words: size |
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(verb) measure with or as if with scales; "scale the gold" |
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Related Words: measure, quantify |
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(verb) remove the scales from; "scale fish" |
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Synonyms: descale |
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Related Words: remove, take, take away |
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(verb) pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard |
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Related Words: model, pattern |
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(verb) climb up by means of a ladder |
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Related Words: climb, climb up, go up, mount |
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(verb) reach the highest point of; "We scaled the Mont Blanc" |
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Synonyms: surmount |
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Related Words: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, make, reach |
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(noun) a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals |
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Related Words: cover, covering, fish scale, natural covering, squama |
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(verb) take by attacking with scaling ladders; "The troops took the fort" |
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Related Words: take |
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(verb) measure by or as if by a scale; "This bike scales only 25 pounds |
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Related Words: measure |
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(noun) an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks |
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Related Words: indicator, vernier, vernier scale |
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(noun) an instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass |
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Synonyms: weighing machine |
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Related Words: balance, measuring instrument, measuring system, weighbridge |
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(noun) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) |
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Synonyms: musical scale |
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Related Words: chromatic scale, diatonic scale, gamut, gapped scale, musical notation |
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(noun) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin |
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Synonyms: scurf |
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Related Words: bit, chip, dandruff, flake, fleck, scrap |
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(noun) a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin |
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Synonyms: scale leaf |
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Related Words: foliage, leaf, leafage, squamule |
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(noun) relative magnitude; "they entertained on a grand scale" |
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Related Words: magnitude relation |
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(noun) the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it; "the scale of the map"; "the scale of the model" |
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Related Words: proportion, proportionality |
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(noun) an ordered reference standard: "judging on a scale of 1 to 10" |
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Synonyms: graduated table, ordered series, scale of measurement |
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Related Words: Beaufort scale, Richter scale, criterion, index, logarithmic scale, measure, standard, touchstone, wage scale, wage schedule, wind scale |
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(noun) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) |
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Synonyms: plate, shell |
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Related Words: U-shaped plate, armor plate, armor plating, armour plate, horseshoe, plate armor, plate armour, shell plating, shield, shoe |
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