A Quick and Simple Dictionary

scale

1. Noun.  An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement.
2. Noun.  Size; scope.
3. Noun.  The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
4. Noun.  A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
5. Noun.  A means of assigning a magnitude.
6. Noun.  (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
7. Verb.  (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.
8. Verb.  (transitive) To climb to the top of.
9. Verb.  (intransitive) (''computing'') To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
10. Noun.  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.
11. Noun.  A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
12. Noun.  A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
13. Noun.  A pine nut of a pinecone.
14. Noun.  The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
15. Noun.  Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
16. Noun.  Limescale.
17. Verb.  (transitive) To remove the scales of.
18. Verb.  (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
19. Noun.  A device to measure mass or weight.
20. Noun.  Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.