scale

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(senseid) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
(senseid) An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.

(ux)

''There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.''

''This map uses a scale of 1:10.''

(senseid) A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
(RQ:Schuster Hepaticae)
(senseid) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
(senseid) A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.

''the decimal scale; the binary scale''

(senseid) Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
(RQ:Milton Divorce) which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion.
(senseid) A standard amount of money to be paid for a service, for example union-negotiated amounts received by a performer or writer.

''Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.''

(senseid) 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.
To climb to the top of.
(RQ:Burroughs Land That Time Forgot)
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(RQ:Roethke Collected)
To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.

''That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.''

To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
(RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)
(senseid) 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.

(hypo)

(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release nut seeds.
The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
mail|Scale mail (as opposed to mail).
Limescale.
A insect.
The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
To remove the scales of.

(syn)

To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
1684-1690, (w), ''Sacred Theory of the Earth''

if all the mountains and hills were scaled, and the earth made even

To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
(RQ:Bacon Sylva Sylvarum)
To scatter; to spread.
To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
(RQ:Scott Old Mortality)caused to be scaled and loaded
A device to measure mass or weight.
Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
(monikko) it|scala
flake
ladder
hut, hovel