scale
verb/skeɪl/
/skeɪl/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they scale | /skeɪl/ /skeɪl/ |
| he / she / it scales | /skeɪlz/ /skeɪlz/ |
| past simple scaled | /skeɪld/ /skeɪld/ |
| past participle scaled | /skeɪld/ /skeɪld/ |
| -ing form scaling | /ˈskeɪlɪŋ/ /ˈskeɪlɪŋ/ |
- scale something (formal) to climb to the top of something very high and steep
- the first woman to scale the world's five highest peaks
- He somehow managed to scale the sheer outside wall of the tower.
- (figurative) He has scaled the heights of his profession.
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- scale something to remove the small flat hard pieces of skin from a fish
- scale something to remove tartar from the teeth by scraping
- The dentist scaled and polished my teeth.
- scale something (from something) (to something) (specialist) to change the size of something
- Text can be scaled from 4 points to 108 points without any loss of quality.
climb
fish
teeth
change size
Word Originverb senses 1 to 4 late Middle English: from Latin scala ‘ladder’ (the verb via Old French escaler or medieval Latin scalare ‘climb’), from the base of Latin scandere ‘to climb’. verb senses 2 to 3 Middle English: shortening of Old French escale, from the Germanic base of scale (noun - sense 5).
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