scale
n. 刻度, 衡量, 比例, 比例尺, 数值范围, 等级, 规模, 天平, 秤, 鳞, 积垢 vt. 依比例决定, 攀登, 测量, 绘制, 刮鳞, 使生垢, 过秤 vi. 剥落, 生水垢, 重量为, 攀登, 衡量 [计] 刻度
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释义与例句
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A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
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An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
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标度
Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.
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Size; scope.
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There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.
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The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
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This map uses a scale of 1:10.
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A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
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A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
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A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
the decimal scale, the binary scale
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Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
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A standard amount of money to be paid for a service, for example union-negotiated amounts received by a performer or writer; similar to wage scale or pay grade.
Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.
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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.
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A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
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A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
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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.
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The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
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Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
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Limescale.
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A scale insect.
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The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
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An infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a disease.
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A device to measure mass or weight.
After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.
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Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
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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.
及物We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
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To climb to the top of.
及物Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
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To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
不及物 商务 计算机 工程 数学That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
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To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
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To take measurements from (an engineering drawing), treating them as (or as if) reliable dimensional instructions.
及物 商务 工程Every single drawing in the specification has a warning in its title block which reads, "Do not scale this drawing."
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To remove the scales of.
及物Please scale that fish for dinner.
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To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
不及物The dry weather is making my skin scale.
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To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
及物to scale the inside of a boiler
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To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
及物1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth if all the mountains and hills were scaled, and the earth made even
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To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
不及物Some sandstone scales by exposure.
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To scatter; to spread.
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To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
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词汇关系
同义词 7
上位词 10
下位词 10
部分词 2
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词源
From Middle English scale, from Latin scāla, usually in plural scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *skand-slā, from scandō (“to climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala.
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