The act of compensating someone for an expense.
A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.
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 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.