Word Finder - scaled

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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.

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We should scale that up by a factor of 10.

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To climb to the top of.

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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.

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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 remove the scales of.

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Please scale that fish for dinner.

synonyms

• descale

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To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.

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The dry weather is making my skin scale.

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To strip or clear of scale; to descale.

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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.

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To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.

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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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Covered with scales or scale-like structures.

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Without scales, or with the scales removed.

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scaled herring