scale

• remove the scales from
• To scatter
• To separate
• a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
• an ordered reference standard
• (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
• a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
• relative magnitude
• the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it
• a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
• a measuring instrument for weighing
• an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks
• a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
• measure by or as if by a scale
• pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard
• take by attacking with scaling ladders
• reach the highest point of
• climb up by means of a ladder
• measure with or as if with scales
• size or measure according to a scale
• The dish of a balance
• The sign or constellation Libra
• To weigh or measure according to a scale
• One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton
• Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish
• One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura
• A scale insect. (See below.)
• A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement
• The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife
• An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler
• The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals
• To strip or clear of scale or scales
• To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth
• To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder
• To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae
• A ladder
• Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals
• A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like
• A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances
• A basis for a numeral system
• The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave
• Gradation
• Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts
• To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder
• To lead up by steps
• Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in Kentucky

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