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General dictionaries General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. scale, scale, scale: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. scale: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
  3. scale, scale, scale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. scale: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. scale: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  6. Scale, Scale, Scale, Scale: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary [home, info]
  7. Scale: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. scale: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. scale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. scale: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. scale: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. scale (n1.), scale (n2.), scale (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. scale: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. scale: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  15. Scale (album), Scale (botany), Scale (cartography), Scale (computing), Scale (economics), Scale (map), Scale (measurement), Scale (music), Scale (order of magnitude), Scale (ratio), Scale (social sciences), Scale (spatial), Scale (string instruments), Scale (weighing), Scale (weights and measures), Scale (zoology), Scale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  16. scale: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  17. Scale: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  18. scale: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  19. scale: Rhymezone [home, info]
  20. scale, scale: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  21. scale: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  22. scale, scale: The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy [home, info]
  23. Scale: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  24. scale: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  25. scale: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  26. scale: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  27. scale: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  28. scale, scale (photographic): Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  29. scale: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. scale: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info]
  2. scale: Linda's Culinary Dictionary [home, info]
  3. Scale: Health & Beauty Glossary [home, info]
  4. scale: Essentials of Music [home, info]
  5. SCALE: Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms [home, info]
  6. Scale: Miniature Wargaming Glossary [home, info]
  7. SCALE: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]
  8. Scale: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info]
  9. Scale: Natural Magick [home, info]
  10. scale: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scale: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
  2. scale: INVESTORWORDS [home, info]
  3. scale: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
  4. Scale: bizterms.net [home, info]
  5. Scale: Bloomberg Financial Glossary [home, info]
  6. Scale: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  7. scale: Glossary of Education Terms and Acronyms [home, info]
  8. scale: Financial dictionary [home, info]
  9. scale: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scale (botany), Scale (computing), Scale (order of magnitude), scale: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. scale: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. scale: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. scale: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scale: Castle Terms [home, info]
  2. SCALE: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  3. scale: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scale: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Scale: Dictionary of anthropology [home, info]
  3. Scale: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]
  4. scale: Botanical Terms [home, info]
  5. scale: Rhododendron Glossary [home, info]
  6. scale: Bryological [home, info]
  7. scale: Flora of New South Wales [home, info]
  8. Scale: Dictionary of anthropology [home, info]
  9. Scale: Glossary of Entomology [home, info]
  10. scale: How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scale: The Folk File [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCALE: CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY [home, info]
  2. scale: Terra.org's Sailing Terms [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. scale: Electronics [home, info]
  2. SCALE: Metal Terminology [home, info]
  3. Scale: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  4. Scale, Scale: Glossary of Glassmaking Terms [home, info]
  5. scale, scale (photographic): DOD Dictionary of Military Terms [home, info]
  6. scale: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info]
  7. Scale: Beauty & Health Glossary [home, info]
  8. SCALE: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
  9. scale: Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary [home, info]
  10. Scale: Principal Metals Glossary [home, info]
  11. scale: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
  12. Scale: Sweetwater Music [home, info]
  13. SCALE: Power Engineering [home, info]

Quick definitions (scale)

noun:  a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
noun:  an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks
noun:  a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass
noun:  (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
noun:  a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
noun:  a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
noun:  relative magnitude ("They entertained on a grand scale")
noun:  the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it ("The scale of the map")
noun:  an ordered reference standard ("Judging on a scale of 1 to 10")
noun:  a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
verb:  take by attacking with scaling ladders ("The troops scaled the walls of the fort")
verb:  measure by or as if by a scale ("This bike scales only 25 pounds")
verb:  size or measure according to a scale ("This model must be scaled down")
verb:  measure with or as if with scales ("Scale the gold")
verb:  remove the scales from ("Scale fish")
verb:  pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard
verb:  climb up by means of a ladder
verb:  reach the highest point of ("We scaled the Mont Blanc")
name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #49586)

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Phrases that include scale:   economies of scale, fahrenheit scale, kelvin scale, chromatic scale, gray scale, more...

Words similar to scale:   descale, plate, scaled, scaleless, scaling, scurf, shell, surmount, ascend, climb, escalade, graduated table, musical scale, ordered series, scale leaf, scale of measurement, weighing machine, more...


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