A device to measure mass or weight.
A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
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.
A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom.
A periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.
To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
To define the scope of something.
To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.
To examine under a microscope.
To observe a bird using a spotting scope.