(transitive) 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.
(intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
(transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
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Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.
Those that cast their shell are the lobster and crab; the old skins are found, but the old shells never; so it is likely that they scale off.
Some sandstone scales by exposure.
if all the mountains were scaled, and the earth made even
to scale the inside of a boiler
The dry weather is making my skin scale.
Please scale that fish for dinner.
Fish that, with their fins and shining scales, / Glide under the green wave.
Scaling his present bearing with his past.
That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
At last I came to the great barrier-cliffs; and after three days of mad effort--of maniacal effort--I scaled them. I built crude ladders; I wedged sticks in narrow fissures; I chopped toe-holds and finger-holds with my long knife; but at last I scaled them. Near the summit I came upon a huge cavern.
Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
City's players and supporters travelled from one end of the emotional scale to the other in those vital seconds, providing a truly remarkable piece of football theatre and the most dramatic conclusion to a season in Premier League history.
There is a certain scale of duties [...] which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion.
the decimal scale; the binary scale
The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.
Even though precision can be carried to an extreme, the scales which now are drawn in (and usually connected to an appropriate figure by an arrow) will allow derivation of meaningful measurements.
This map uses a scale of 1:10.
There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.
The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale.
We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.