Definitions
1.verbTo change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product."We should scale that up by a factor of 10."
2.verbTo climb to the top of."Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest."
3.verbTo tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors."That architecture won't scale to real-world environments."
4.verbTo weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
5.verbTo remove the scales of."Please scale that fish for dinner."
6.verbTo become scaly; to produce or develop scales."The dry weather is making my skin scale."
7.verbTo strip or clear of scale; to descale."to scale the inside of a boiler"
8.verbTo take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
9.verbTo separate and come off in thin layers or laminae."Some sandstone scales by exposure."
10.verbTo scatter; to spread.
11.verbTo clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
12.adjectiveCovered with scales or scale-like structures.
13.adjectiveWithout scales, or with the scales removed."scaled herring"