Definition of scale

"scale" in the noun sense

1. scale, scale of measurement, graduated table, ordered series

an ordered reference standard

"judging on a scale of 1 to 10"

2. scale

relative magnitude

"they entertained on a grand scale"

3. scale

the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it

"the scale of the map"

"the scale of the model"

4. scale, scale leaf

a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin

5. scale, scurf, exfoliation

a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin

6. scale, musical scale

music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)

7. scale, weighing machine

a measuring instrument for weighing shows amount of mass

8. scale

an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks

9. plate, scale, shell

a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

10. scale

a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals

"scale" in the verb sense

1. scale

measure by or as if by a scale

"This bike scales only 25 pounds"

2. scale

pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard

3. scale

take by attacking with scaling ladders

"The troops scaled the walls of the fort"

4. scale, surmount

reach the highest point of

"We scaled the Mont Blanc"

5. scale

climb up by means of a ladder

6. scale, descale

remove the scales from

"scale fish"

7. scale

measure with or as if with scales

"scale the gold"

8. scale

size or measure according to a scale

"This model must be scaled down"

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Quotations for scale

Every scale hath its counterpoise. [ Proverb ]

Put no money in the scale against virtue. [ Proverb ]

Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles. [ Alexander Smith ]

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so much as brain. [ Lowell ]

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. [ Plutarch ]

Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. [ Washington Irving ]

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence. [ Pope ]

Let no man measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality in this poor world of ours. [ Schiller ]

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam. [ Lord Langdale ]

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same. [ George Sand ]

But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance, and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice. [ Mark Hopkins ]

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union. and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another. [ Cicero ]

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scale the fall of an empire and the dropping of a woman's glove; and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire. [ Balzac ]

Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness, - these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy. [ Miss Sedgwick ]

Women have that feminine sensuousness which delights in color and odor and richness of fabric. Their sense of beauty is untaught. A little lower in the scale of civilization, they would pierce their noses, and dye their fingernails, and wear strings of glass beads. [ Mrs. L. G. Calhoun ]

Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actaeon, must pursue the game not only where there is a path, but where there is none. They must be able to simulate and dissimulate; to leap and to creep; to conquer the earth like Caesar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus; to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale, or, like Nelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, while she is hesitating where to bestow them. [ Colton ]

There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palmleaf! Sometimes it is what a knifeshaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by! [ C. A. Bartol ]

scale in Scrabble®

The word scale is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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scale in Words With Friends™

The word scale is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Word Growth involving scale

Shorter words in scale

ale

Longer words containing scale

broadscale

bulbscale bulbscales

descale descaled undescaled

descale descaler descalers

descale descales

downscale downscaled

downscale downscales

fullscale

grayscale grayscales

largescale

limescale

macroscale macroscales

microscale microscales

millscale millscales

multiscale

nanoscale

overscale overscaled

overscale overscales

petascale

rescale rescaled

rescale rescales

scaleboard scaleboards

scaled descaled undescaled

scaled downscaled

scaled overscaled

scaled rescaled

scaled underscaled

scaled unscaled

scaled upscaled

scaleless

scalelike

scalemoss scalemosses

scalene scalenes

scalenohedra scalenohedral scalenohedrally

scalenohedric scalenohedrical

scalenohedron scalenohedrons

scalepan scalepans

scaler descaler descalers

scaler scalers descalers

scales bulbscales

scales descales

scales downscales

scales grayscales

scales macroscales

scales microscales

scales millscales

scales overscales

scales rescales

scales scalesmith scalesmiths

scales shadscales

scales subscales

scales timescales

scales underscales

scales upscales

scales weighscales

shadscale shadscales

smallscale

subscale subscales

terascale

timescale timescales

truescale

underscale underscaled

underscale underscales

upscale upscaled

upscale upscales

waferscale

weighscale weighscales