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1.nounA ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
2.nounAn ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude."Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10."
3.nounSize; scope."The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale."
4.nounThe ratio of depicted distance to actual distance."This map uses a scale of 1:10."
5.nounA line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
6.nounA series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
7.nounA mathematical base for a numeral system; radix."the decimal scale; the binary scale"
8.nounGradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
9.nounA standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union."Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale."
10.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."
11.verbTo climb to the top of."Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest."
12.verbTo tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors."That architecture won't scale to real-world environments."
13.verbTo weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
14.nounPart of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
15.nounA small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
16.nounA flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
17.nounPart of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
18.nounThe flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
19.nounScale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
20.nounLimescale.
21.nounA scale insect.
22.nounThe thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
23.verbTo remove the scales of."Please scale that fish for dinner."
24.verbTo become scaly; to produce or develop scales."The dry weather is making my skin scale."
25.verbTo strip or clear of scale; to descale."to scale the inside of a boiler"
26.verbTo take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
27.verbTo separate and come off in thin layers or laminae."Some sandstone scales by exposure."
28.verbTo scatter; to spread.
29.verbTo clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
30.nounA device to measure mass or weight."After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale."
31.nounEither of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
32.nounA device for measuring weight."The butcher put the sausages on the scales."