scale

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/skeɪl/]

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1. scale (noun) — sense 1

Definition: 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.

Example: Fish that, with their fins and shining scales, / Glide under the green wave.

2. scale (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.

3. scale (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.

4. scale (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To remove the scales of.

Example: Please scale that fish for dinner.

5. scale (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.

Example: The dry weather is making my skin scale.

6. scale (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.

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