scale : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a temperature scale that defines absolute zero as 0 degrees; water freezes at 273.16 degrees and boils at 373.16 degrees
  absolute scale.
  

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• noun insect having a firm covering of wax especially in the female
  

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• (Mus.), the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a.

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• (Zoöl.), a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. The female scale curiously resembles a sessile barnacle in form.

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• noun a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length
  steelyard; beam scale.
  

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• noun an international scale of wind force from 0 (calm air) to 12 (hurricane)
  Beaufort scale.
  
• noun a scale from 0 to 12 for the force of the wind
  

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• (Arith.), a uniform scale of notation whose ratio is two.

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• noun the first intelligence test
  

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• noun a system for measuring the concentration of sugar solutions
  

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• noun pest on citrus trees
  Coccus hesperidum.
  

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• noun (music) the major scale having no sharps or flats
  C major; C major scale.
  

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• noun a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees
  Celsius scale; centigrade scale.
  

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• noun a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees
  Celsius scale; centigrade scale.
  

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• noun a 12-note scale including all the semitones of the octave
  

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• (Mus.), the scale consisting of thirteen tones, including the eight scale tones and the five intermediate tones.

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• (Zoöl.), a species of bark louse (Pulvinaria innumerabilis), which does great damage to the cotton plant.

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• (Zoöl.), a hydrophyllium.

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• (Zoöl.), a fish scale which is thin and shows concentric lines of growth, without serrations on the margin.

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• a scale which consists of a set of parallel lines, with other lines crossing them obliquely, so that their intersections furnish smaller subdivisions of the unit of measure than could be conveniently marked on a plain scale.

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• noun a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones
  

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• (Mus.), a scale consisting of eight sounds with seven intervals, of which two are semitones and five are whole tones; a modern major or minor scale, as distinguished from the chromatic scale.

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• a scale of gradation used in finding the different points for drawing the spiral curve of the volute. Gwilt.

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• noun the saving in cost of production that is due to mass production
  

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• noun (simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is greater than one
  extended time scale.
  

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• noun a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 32 degrees and the boiling point of water a 212 degrees
  

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• noun (simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is less than one
  

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• noun scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish
  

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• adjective satellite using all available resources
  all-out.
  
  • all-out war
  • a full-scale campaign against nuclear power plants

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• (Zoöl.), one kind of scales of the ganoid fishes, composed of an inner layer of bone, and an outer layer of shining enamel. They are often so arranged as to form a coat of mail.

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• noun a musical scale with fewer than seven notes
  

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• (Mus.), the complete scale; employed to designate the entire series of musical sounds from lowest to highest.

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Gun"ter's scale`

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1. A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. ✍ Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales of equal parts, of chords, sines, tangents, rhombs, etc., and on the other side scales of logarithms of these various parts, by means of which many problems in surveying and navigation may be solved, mechanically, by the aid of dividers alone.

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• noun a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees
  Celsius scale; centigrade scale.
  

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• the thin film which on the surface of wrought iron in the process of forging. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide of iron, Fe3O4>.

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• noun a temperature scale that defines absolute zero as 0 degrees; water freezes at 273.16 degrees and boils at 373.16 degrees
  absolute scale.
  

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• adjective satellite unusually large in scope
  
  • a large-scale attack on AIDS is needed
• adjective satellite constructed or drawn to a big scale
  
  • large-scale maps

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• noun a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length
  steelyard; beam scale.
  

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• noun the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22
  Balance; Libra; Libra the Balance.
  

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• noun scale on which actual distances from the origin are proportional to the logarithms of the corresponding scale numbers
  

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• noun a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th
  major diatonic scale.
  

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• noun a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th
  major diatonic scale.
  

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• (Mus.), the natural diatonic scale, which has semitones between the third and fourth, and seventh and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees; the scale of the major mode, of which the third is major. See Scale, and Diatonic.

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• noun a scale formerly used to describe the magnitude of an earthquake; an earthquake detected only by seismographs is a I and an earthquake that destroys all buildings is a XII
  

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• noun a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th
  minor diatonic scale.
  

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• noun a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th
  minor diatonic scale.
  

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• (Mus.) The form of the minor scale is various. The strictly correct form has the third and sixth minor, with a semitone between the seventh and eighth, which involves an augmented second interval, or three semitones, between the sixth and seventh, as, 6/F, 7/G♯, 8/A. But, for melodic purposes, both the sixth and the seventh are sometimes made major in the ascending, and minor in the descending, scale, thus: Comm: an illustration of a bar with ascending and descending notes on a minor scale See Major.

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• noun a scale of hardness of solids; talc is 0 and diamond is 10; ordering is determined by which substance can scratch another substance
  

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• noun a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 (a successor to the Richter scale) that enables seismologists to compare the energy released by different earthquakes on the basis of the area of the geological fault that ruptured in the quake
  

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

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• (Mus.), a scale which is written without flats or sharps. Model would be a preferable term, as less likely to mislead, the so-called artificial scales (scales represented by the use of flats and sharps) being equally natural with the so-called natural scale

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• (Zoöl.) any species of scale insects which infests orange trees; especially, the purple scale (Mytilaspis citricola), the long scale (M. Gloveri), and the red scale (Aspidiotus Aurantii).

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• noun partly refined paraffin wax
  paraffin scale.
  

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• noun a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted
  pentatone.
  

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• noun (from potential of Hydrogen) the logarithm of the reciprocal of hydrogen-ion concentration in gram atoms per liter; provides a measure on a scale from 0 to 14 of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution (where 7 is neutral and greater than 7 is more basic and less than 7 is more acidic);
  pH.
  

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• (Naut.), a scale for the use of navigators, on which are graduated chords, sines, tangents, secants, rhumbs, geographical miles, etc.

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• a weighing machine, with a flat platform on which objects are weighed.

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• (Zoöl.), one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope.

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• a scale on which are marked parts proportional to the logarithms of the natural numbers; a logarithmic scale.

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• (Draughting), instruments used in making copies of drawings, or drawings of objects, on an enlarged or reduced scale.

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• a platform scale bearing a track which forms part of the line of a railway, for weighing loaded cars.

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• noun a scale of absolute temperature in Fahrenheit degrees; the freezing point of water is 491.69 degrees and the boiling point of water is 671.69 degrees
  

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• noun a temperature scale on which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 80 degrees
  

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• (Zoöl.), a scale insect (Aspidiotus aurantii) very injurious to the orange tree in California and Australia.

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• noun a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 formerly used to express the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of the size of seismograph oscillations
  

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• noun small east Asian insect naturalized in the United States that damages fruit trees
  Aspidiotus perniciosus.
  

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• (Mil.), armor made of small metallic scales overlapping, and fastened upon leather or cloth.

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• (Zoöl.), the tiger beetle.

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• (Zoöl.), a carp having normal scales.

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• verb reduce proportionally
  
  • The model is scaled down
• verb make smaller
  reduce.
  
  • reduce an image

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• noun a number used as a multiplier in scaling
  

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• noun small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds
  scaly fern; Asplenium ceterach; Ceterach officinarum.
  

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• noun small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small hemipterous insects belonging to the family Coccidæ, in which the females, when adult, become more or less scalelike in form. They are found upon the leaves and twigs of various trees and shrubs, and often do great damage to fruit trees. See Orange scale,under Orange.

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• noun a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
  scale.
  

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• noun moss-like liverwort with tiny scalelike leaves; usually epiphytic
  leafy liverwort.
  

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• (Bot.), any leafy-stemmed moss of the order Hepaticæ; so called from the small imbricated scalelike leaves of most of the species. See Hepatica, 2, and Jungermannia.

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• noun (music) the major scale having no sharps or flats
  C major; C major scale.
  

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• a graduated scale on which are given the lengths of the chords of arcs from 0° to 90° in a circle of given radius, used in measuring given angles and in plotting angles of given numbers of degrees.

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• noun an ordered reference standard
  scale; ordered series; graduated table.
  
  • judging on a scale of 1 to 10

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• verb increase proportionally
  
  • scale up the model

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• noun a value on some scale of measurement
  

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• noun partly refined paraffin wax
  paraffin scale.
  

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Scale"-winged` adjective

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1. (Zoöl.) Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the lepidoptera; scaly-winged.

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• noun a ladder used to scale walls (as in an attack)
  

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• (Math.), a scale of numbers in which the modulus is sixty. It is used in treating the divisions of the circle.

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• (Math.), the sexagenary scale.

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• adjective satellite having the body covered or partially covered with silver-colored scales
  

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• noun a wage scale that fluctuates in response to the cost-of-living index
  

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• . (a) A scale for raising or lowering imposts in proportion to the fall or rise of prices . (b) A variable scale of wages or of prices . (c) A slide rule.

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• noun (simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is greater than one
  extended time scale.
  

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• adjective satellite created or drawn on a small scale
  
  • small-scale maps
  • a small-scale model
• adjective satellite limited in size or scope
  pocket-size; pocket-sized; modest; small; minor.
  
  • a small business
  • a newspaper with a modest circulation
  • small-scale plans
  • a pocket-size country

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• noun an insect active in all stages
  

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• noun a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring
  spring balance.
  

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• a scale in which the platform hangs suspended from the weighing apparatus instead of resting upon it.

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• (Gun.), a kind of breech sight for a cannon.

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• noun a system of measuring temperature
  

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• noun an arrangement of events used as a measure of duration
  
  • on the geological time scale mankind has existed but for a brief moment

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• noun the ratio of the simulation time to the time of the real process
  

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• influence an action so as to change an outcome from one likely result to another.

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• to reduce a debt, etc., according to a fixed ratio or scale. U.S.

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• to change the preponderance; to decide or determine something doubtful.

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• a scale for weighing in which the fulcra of the levers or beams are strained wires or strips acting by torsion.

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• a railway scale. See under Railway.

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• noun a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale
  vernier.
  

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• noun a schedule of wages paid for different jobs
  wage schedule.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a scale insect (Aspidiotus Nerii) injurious to the orange tree. See Orange scale, under Orange.

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• noun an international scale of wind force from 0 (calm air) to 12 (hurricane)
  Beaufort scale.
  

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