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Word | Scale |
Portuguese Meaning | desenho, escala, escama, gama, para dimensionar |
judging on a scale of 1 to 10 / the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it / The dish of a balance / one of the small horny flakes that cover the skin of snakes and fishes. The same word also means a set of notes in music / climb up; ascend / 0 / a: either pan or tray of a balance b: a beam that is supported freely in the center and has two pans of equal weight suspended from its ends —usually used in plural / an instrument or machine for weighing / to weigh in scales / to have a specified weight on scales / a: a small, flattened, rigid, and definitely circumscribed plate forming part of the external body covering especially of a fish b: a small thin plate suggesting a fish scale scales of mica the scales on a moth's wing c: the scaly covering of a scaled animal / a small thin dry lamina shed (as in many skin diseases) from the skin / a thin coating, layer, or incrustation: as a: a usually black scaly coating of oxide forming on the surface of a metal (as iron) when it is heated for processing b: a hard incrustation usually rich in sulfate of calcium that is deposited on the inside of a vessel (as a boiler) in which water is heated / a: a modified leaf protecting a seed plant bud before expansion b: a thin, membranous, chaffy, or woody bract / a: any of the small overlapping usually metal pieces forming the outer surface of scale armor b: scale armor / a: scale insect b: infestation with or disease caused by scale insects / to remove the scale or scales from (as by scraping) scale a fish / to take off in thin layers or scales scale tartar from the teeth / to throw (as a thin flat stone) so that the edge cuts the air or so that it skips on water : skim / to separate and come off in scales : flake / to shed scales scaling skin / a: to attack with or take by means of scaling ladders scale a castle wall b: to climb up or reach by means of a ladder c: to reach the highest point of : surmount scale a mountain / a: to arrange in a graduated series b (1) : to measure by or as if by a scale (2): to measure or estimate the sound content of (as logs) c: to pattern, make, regulate, set, or estimate according to some rate or standard : adjust a production schedule scaled to actual need —often used with back, down, or up scale down imports / to climb by or as if by a ladder / to rise in a graduated series / measure / a obsolete : ladder b archaic : a means of ascent / a graduated series of musical tones ascending or descending in order of pitch according to a specified scheme of their intervals / something graduated especially when used as a measure or rule: as a: a series of marks or points at known intervals used to measure distances (as the height of the mercury in a thermometer) b: an indication of the relationship between the distanc, | |
Usage | ⇒ Generally all the fishes have scales on their bodies ⇒ To locate a book on the top shelf of the stacks, Lee had to scale an exceptionally rickety ladder. ⇒ Use your hands to spread the potato slices out so that they overlap like unruly fish scales , but are not more than 1 or 2 layers thick. ⇒ She scaled the fish and washed them ⇒ We need to scale down this dress from a size 16 to a size 12. ⇒ What's the scale of this map? 1:25.? |
Synonyms | measure, climb, flake, mount, ascend, range, layer, balance, peel, plate, surmount, gamut, gradation, series, rank, scurf, degree, extent, film, gauge, |
Antonyms | descend, fall, deduct, dismount, drop, aberration, alight, arrive, calculate, come, conciliate, condescend, decide, deduce, deign, derive, descending, deteriorate, determine, devolve, |
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