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Word: scale
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Meaning:
Noun:
- Limescale
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced
- A means of assigning a magnitude.
- An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement.
- A pine nut of a pinecone.
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
- music A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- 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.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- Size; scope.
- The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
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Verb:
- intransitive (''computing'') To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- intransitive To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- transitive 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.
- transitive To climb.
- transitive To remove the scales of.
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