scale

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Noun

Singular scale

Plural scales

1. The scale of something is its size or level.

   It's hard to understand the scale of the change.

2. A scale is a small machine for measuring (finding out) how much something weighs (how heavy the thing is.)

   She stood on the scale and found out she weighed 150 pounds.

3. (music) A series of eight notes.

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  A scale for weighing small things

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  A balance is a kind of scale

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  A musical scale

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  scale to measure it

Verb

Plain form scale

Third-person singular scales

Past tense scaled

Past participle scaled

Present participle scaling

1. If you scale something, then you climb up it.