An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; — usually followed by to or against.
An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.
An interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition, that can be raised ("thrown") by one part of the program and handled ("caught") by another part.
The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
That which is excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.
A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
A device to measure mass or weight.
The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
Limescale.
Size; scope.
Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.
A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
A scale insect.
An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
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.
A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
To climb to the top of.
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.
To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
To scatter; to spread.
To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
To remove the scales of.