Scale
[skeɪl] or [skel]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals.
(noun.) an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks.
(noun.) a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass.
(noun.) (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave).
(noun.) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin.
(noun.) a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin.
(noun.) relative magnitude; 'they entertained on a grand scale'.
(noun.) the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it; 'the scale of the map'; 'the scale of the model'.
(noun.) an ordered reference standard; 'judging on a scale of 1 to 10'.
(verb.) size or measure according to a scale; 'This model must be scaled down'.
(verb.) measure with or as if with scales; 'scale the gold'.
(verb.) remove the scales from; 'scale fish'.
(verb.) pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard.
(verb.) climb up by means of a ladder.
(verb.) reach the highest point of; 'We scaled the Mont Blanc'.
(verb.) take by attacking with scaling ladders; 'The troops scaled the walls of the fort'.
(verb.) measure by or as if by a scale; 'This bike scales only 25 pounds'.
錄入:山姆--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively.
(n.) The sign or constellation Libra.
(v. t.) To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system.
(n.) One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid.
(n.) Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc.
(n.) One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura; the elytra of certain annelids. See Lepidoptera.
(n.) A scale insect. (See below.)
(n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns.
(n.) The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife.
(n.) An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler.
(n.) The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals.
(v. t.) To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler.
(v. t.) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
(v. t.) To scatter; to spread.
(v. t.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
(v. i.) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure.
(v. i.) To separate; to scatter.
(n.) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
(n.) Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals.
(n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale.
(n.) A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances; as, a scale of miles, yards, feet, etc., for a map or plan.
(n.) A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc.
(n.) The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor.
(n.) Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being.
(n.) Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts; size or degree of the parts or components in any complex thing, compared with other like things; especially, the relative proportion of the linear dimensions of the parts of a drawing, map, model, etc., to the dimensions of the corresponding parts of the object that is represented; as, a map on a scale of an inch to a mile.
(v. t.) To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort.
(v. i.) To lead up by steps; to ascend.
柏格編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Dish (of a balance).[2]. Balance.[3]. Gradation, progressive series.[4]. Lamina, layer, flake, LAMELLA, thin plate.
v. a. Climb, ascend, escalade, mount, clamber up.
整理:莎丽
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Layer, lamina, flake
杜威手打
解釋/意思:
n. a ladder: series of steps: a graduated measure: (mus.) a series of all the tones ascending or descending from the keynote to its octave called the gamut: the order of a numeral system: gradation: proportion: series.—v.t. to mount as by a ladder: to ascend: to draw in true proportion: to measure logs: to decrease proportionally as every part.—v.i. to lead up by steps: (Scot.) to disperse to spill to spread as manure.—ns. Scale′-board (print.) a thin slip of wood for extending a page to its true length making types register securing uniformity of margin &c.; Scale′-pipette′ a tubular pipette with a graduated scale for taking up definite quantities of liquid; Scal′ing-ladd′er a ladder used for the escalade of an enemy's fortress: a fireman's ladder: (her.) a bearing representing a ladder with two hooks and two ferrules.
n. one of the small thin plates on a fish or reptile: a thin layer: a husk: the covering of the leaf-buds of deciduous trees: a piece of cuticle that is squamous or horny: a flake: an encrustation on the side of a vessel in which water is heated.—v.t. to clear of scales: to peel off in thin layers.—v.i. to come off in thin layers.—ns. Scale′-arm′our armour consisting of scales of metal overlapping each other: plate-mail; Scale′-back a marine worm covered with scales.—adjs. Scale′-bear′ing having scales as the sea-mice; Scaled having scales: covered with scales.—ns. Scale′-dove an American dove having the plumage marked as with scales; Scale′-fish a dry cured fish as the haddock; Scale′-foot the scabbard-fish; Scale′-in′sect any insect of the homopterous family Coccid.—adj. Scale′less without scales as the scaleless amphibians.—n. Scale′-moss certain plants which resemble moss.—adj. Scale′-patt′ern having a pattern resembling scales.—ns. Scale′-quail an American quail having scale-like markings of the plumage; Scā′ler one who makes a business of scaling fish: an instrument used by dentists in removing tartar.—adjs. Scale′-tailed having scales on the under side of the tail; Scale′-winged having the wings covered with minute scales as a butterfly.—ns. Scale′-work scales lapping over each other; Scale′-worm a scale-back: Scal′iness the state of being scaly: roughness; Scal′ing the process of removing scales from a fish or encrustations from the interior of a boiler; Scal′ing-fur′nace a furnace in which plates of iron are heated for the purpose of scaling them as in tinning.—adj. Scal′y covered with scales: like scales: shabby: (bot.) formed of scales.
n. the dish of a balance: a balance as to turn the scale—chiefly in pl.: (pl.) Libra one of the signs of the zodiac.—v.t. to weigh as in scales: to estimate.—ns. Scale′-beam the beam or lever of a balance; Scale′-microm′eter in a telescope a graduated scale for measuring distances; Scāl′ing the process of adjusting sights to a ship's guns.—Beam and scales a balance; Gunter's scale a scale for solving mechanically problems in navigation and surveying.
丹尼整理
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of weighing on scales, portends that justice will temper your conduct, and you will see your prosperity widening. For a young woman to weigh her lover, the indications are that she will find him of solid worth, and faithfulness will balance her love.
布赖斯手打
例句/造句/用法:
- This was a combination of state library and state publishing upon a scale hitherto unheard of. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Some conception of the enormous scale upon which grain is raised in the Western States may be gotten from the dimensions of the farms. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- One curl of a girl's ringlet, one hair of a whisker, will turn the scale against them all in a minute. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It may have been cooling slowly, but, speaking upon the scale of things astronomical, it has certainly not cooled very much. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- One light-measuring scale depends upon the law that the intensity of illumination decreases with the square of the distance of the object from the light. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In 1833 phosphorus friction matches were introduced on a commercial scale by Preschel, of Vienna. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Artesian wells are named after the French Province of Artais, where they appear to have been first used on an extensive scale. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The ranges are read in scales of 10-yard steps, and the azimuths for each . 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The morbid scales had fallen from her eyes, and she saw her position and her work more truly. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The scales are set according to the chemist's weighing orders, and the material is fed into the scales from the hoppers. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- They converted the steelyard into platform scales. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- To this standard the inventions of the century in weighing scales have come. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- For now he felt like a pair of scales, the half of which tips down and down into an indefinite void. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Mr Meagles was at hand the whole time, always ready to illuminate any dim place with the bright little safety-lamp belonging to the scales and scoop. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Peepy had scaled his crib, and crept down in his bed-gown and cap, and was so cold that his teeth were chattering as if he had cut them all. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- From the shining heights she has scaled and taken, she is never absent. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- By the way, said he to Joseph Harrison, you found some place, I understand, where the fellow scaled the fence. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- A full equipment of scaling ladders and fire-fighting apparatus is carried. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Resisting Sam's tender of his greatcoat, in order that he might have no encumbrance in scaling the wall, he set forth, followed by his attendant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Some turn off from their voluntary pilgrimage down the Iss, and, scaling the awful walls of its canyon below us, stop in the valley. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- These outlaws have indeed a daring captain; but without machines, scaling ladders, and experienced leaders, my castle may defy them. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The officer turned suddenly from the path, and after climbing a paling, and scaling a hedge, entered a secluded field. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- In the patient solving of tremendous problems he had toiled up the mountain-side of success--scaling its topmost peak and obtaining a view of the boundless prospect. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Who could arrest a creature capable of scaling the overhanging sides of Mont Salêve? 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
校對:史蒂文