Meaning

21 senses
  1. An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.

    Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.

    The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.

    Skala

    шкала́škalá

    шкала́škalá

  2. Size; scope.

    There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.

    Ausmaß

    масшта́бmasštáb

    масшта́бmasštáb

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

  3. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.

    This map uses a scale of 1:10.

    Maßstab

    масшта́бmasštáb

    масшта́бmasštáb

  4. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.

  5. A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.

    Tonleiter

    га́ммаgámma

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

  6. A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.

    the decimal scale, the binary scale

  7. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.

  8. A standard amount of money to be paid for a service, for example union-negotiated amounts received by a performer or writer; similar to wage scale or pay grade.

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

  9. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Schuppe

    чешуя́češujá

    лу́скаlúska

  10. (countable, uncountable)A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.

    чешу́йкаčešújka

  11. (countable, uncountable)A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.

    Schuppe

    чешу́йкаčešújka

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

  12. (countable, uncountable)Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.

Examples

235 sentences
  1. What's the scale of this map?

    Який масштаб цієї мапи?

    ruКаков масштаб этой карты?

    deWelchen Maßstab hat diese Karte?

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  2. I weighed myself on the bathroom scales.

    Я зважився на вагах у ванній кімнаті.

    ruЯ взвесился на весах в ванной.

    deIch habe mich auf der Waage im Badezimmer gewogen.

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  3. How happy are you on a scale of one to ten?

    ruНасколько ты счастлив по шкале от одного до десяти?

    deWie glücklich bist du auf einer Skala von eins bis zehn?

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  4. On a scale of one to ten, how funny would you say you are?

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  5. What did you think of the movie on a scale of one to ten?

    ruКак тебе фильм по шкале от одного до десяти?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
sequence for measurement:
size or scope:
keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals:
Русский
By meaning 7
sequence for measurement:
size or scope:
series of notes:
keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals:
coloured chitin:
flaky material sloughed off heated metal:
dish of a balance:
Deutsch
By meaning 7
sequence for measurement:
size or scope:
ratio of distances:
series of notes:
keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals:
scale mail:
dish of a balance:

Origin

From Middle English scale, from Latin scāla, usually in plural scālae (“a flight of steps,

From Middle English scale, from Latin scāla, usually in plural scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *skand-slā, from scandō (“to climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala.

From Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skalō. Cognate with Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale.

Inherited from Northern Middle English scale (non-Northern scole), from Old Norse skál (“bowl”) from Proto-Germanic *skēlō. Compare Danish skål (“bowl, cup”), Dutch schaal, German Schale, Old High German scāla, Old English scealu (“cup”).

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Forms

plural: scales
Singularscale
Pluralscales

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

113 related words

Collocations

5 patterns
  • scaled the fish
  • on a scale
  • scale of one
  • a scale of
  • on the scale

See also

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