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We found 85 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word scale:
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General (34 matching dictionaries)
- scale: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
- scale, scale, scale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
- scale, scale, scale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- scale: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
- scale: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
- scale, scale: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
- Scale, scale: Wordnik [home, info]
- scale: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
- Scale, Scale, Scale, Scale: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary [home, info]
- scale: Wiktionary [home, info]
- scale: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- scale: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
- scale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- scale: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- scale: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- scale (n1.), scale (n2.), scale (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- scale: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- scale: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- SCALE, Scale (Lepidopteran anatomy), Scale (album), Scale (analytical tool), Scale (anatomy), Scale (chemistry), Scale (dermatology), Scale (descriptive set theory), Scale (disambiguation), Scale (insect anatomy), Scale (instrument), Scale (map), Scale (measurement), Scale (measuring), Scale (music), Scale (ratio), Scale (social sciences), Scale (spatial), Scale (string instruments), Scale (zoology), Scale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- scale: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
- Scale: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- scale: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- scale: Rhymezone [home, info]
- scale, scale: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- scale: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- Scale: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
- scale: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- scale: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- scale: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- scale: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- scale, scale (photographic): Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- scale: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
Art (10 matching dictionaries)
- scale: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info]
- scale: Linda's Culinary Dictionary [home, info]
- Scale: Health & Beauty Glossary [home, info]
- scale: Essentials of Music [home, info]
- SCALE: Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms [home, info]
- Scale: Miniature Wargaming Glossary [home, info]
- SCALE: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]
- Scale: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info]
- Scale: Natural Magick [home, info]
- scale: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info]
Business (10 matching dictionaries)
- Scale: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
- scale: INVESTORWORDS [home, info]
- scale: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
- Scale: bizterms.net [home, info]
- Scale: Bloomberg Financial Glossary [home, info]
- Scale: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
- scale: Glossary of Education Terms and Acronyms [home, info]
- scale: Legal dictionary [home, info]
- scale: Financial dictionary [home, info]
- scale: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- Scale (botany), Scale (computing), Scale (map), Scale (order of magnitude), Scale (string instruments), scale: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
- scale: online medical dictionary [home, info]
- scale: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
- Scale: Castle Terms [home, info]
- SCALE: Acronym Finder [home, info]
- scale: Idioms [home, info]
Science (9 matching dictionaries)
- Scale: Dictionary of anthropology [home, info]
- Scale: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]
- scale: Botanical Terms [home, info]
- scale: Rhododendron Glossary [home, info]
- scale: Bryological [home, info]
- scale: Flora of New South Wales [home, info]
- Scale: Dictionary of anthropology [home, info]
- Scale: Glossary of Entomology [home, info]
- scale: How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement [home, info]
Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
- scale: The Folk File [home, info]
- The scale, scale: Urban Dictionary [home, info]
Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
- SCALE: CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY [home, info]
- Scale: Sports Definitions [home, info]
Tech (12 matching dictionaries)
- scale: Electronics [home, info]
- SCALE: Metal Terminology [home, info]
- Scale: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
- scale: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info]
- Scale: Beauty & Health Glossary [home, info]
- SCALE: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
- scale: Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary [home, info]
- SCALE: Pool Glossary [home, info]
- scale: Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool [home, info]
- scale: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
- Scale: Sweetwater Music [home, info]
- SCALE: Power Engineering [home, info]
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Quick definitions from WordNet (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)
▸ Also see scaling
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