scale
To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportionTo change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
» What's the scale of this map?
Welchen Maßstab hat diese Karte? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Каков масштаб этой карты? — Wezel
Який масштаб цієї мапи? — deniko
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13 senses(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.
We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
skalieren
масштаби́роватьmasštabírovatʹ
(transitive)To climb to the top of.
Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
besteigen, erklimmen
взбира́ться impf взобра́тьсяvzbirátʹsja
climb up by means of a ladder
(intransitive)To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
To handle heavily increasing loads without breaking down.
To increase revenues exponentially without proportional increases in costs.
(transitive)To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
size or measure according to a scale
(transitive)To take measurements from (an engineering drawing), treating them as (or as if) reliable dimensional instructions.
Every single drawing in the specification has a warning in its title block which reads, "Do not scale this drawing."
(transitive)To remove the scales of.
Please scale that fish for dinner.
entschuppen
чисти́тьčistítʹ
remove the scales from
(intransitive)To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
The dry weather is making my skin scale.
schuppen
measure with or as if with scales
(transitive)To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth if all the mountains and hills were scaled, and the earth made even
(intransitive)To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
Some sandstone scales by exposure.
(Scotland, UK, dialectal)To scatter; to spread.
Examples
235 sentencesWhat's the scale of this map?
Який масштаб цієї мапи? — deniko
ruКаков масштаб этой карты? — Wezel
deWelchen Maßstab hat diese Karte? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I weighed myself on the bathroom scales.
Я зважився на вагах у ванній кімнаті. — deniko
ruЯ взвесился на весах в ванной. — marafon
deIch habe mich auf der Waage im Badezimmer gewogen. — al_ex_an_der
How happy are you on a scale of one to ten?
ruНасколько ты счастлив по шкале от одного до десяти? — marafon
deWie glücklich bist du auf einer Skala von eins bis zehn? — Waldelfe
On a scale of one to ten, how funny would you say you are?
What did you think of the movie on a scale of one to ten?
ruКак тебе фильм по шкале от одного до десяти? — ZegPhig
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 3
By meaning 4
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.
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Forms
scales, scaling, scaled, scaledPhrasal verbs
6 phrasal verbs- scale upрости, зростатиUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see scale, up.
- scale downзменшити, знизитиTo reduce the size of something whilst maintaining proportion.
- scale offTo peel off
- scale outTo scale up (a system) by adding more servers or nodes.
- scale inTo incrementally enter a position on an oversold market in view of indications of a rebound trend.
- scale backTo make a reduction in the amount, extent, etc. of something.
Synonyms
2 synonymsWord family
15 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
Collocations
5 patterns- scaled the fish
- on a scale
- scale of one
- a scale of
- on the scale
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.