scale
/skeɪl/ verb C1- 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. · We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
- To climb to the top of. · Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
- To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors. · That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
- To handle heavily increasing loads without breaking down.
- To increase revenues exponentially without proportional increases in costs.
- To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- To take measurements from (an engineering drawing), treating them as (or as if) reliable dimensional instructions. · Every single drawing in the specification has a warning in its title block which reads, "Do not scale this drawing."
He/she/it scales · Past scaled · Past participle scaled · -ing form scaling
Verb forms
- Base form
- scale
- He/she/it
- scales
- Past
- scaled
- Past participle
- scaled
- -ing form
- scaling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- scale back To make a reduction in the amount, extent, etc. of someth...
- scale down To reduce the size of something whilst maintaining propor...
- scale in To incrementally enter a position on an oversold market i...
- scale off To peel off
- scale out To scale up (a system) by adding more servers or nodes.
- scale up Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see scale,...
From the library
“I am endeavoring,” he thought, “to make this man happy; I look upon this restitution as a weight thrown into the scale to balance the evil I have wrought.
That gives you an idea of Moriarty’s gains and of the scale on which he works.
Miss Darcy was tall, and on a larger scale than Elizabeth; and, though little more than sixteen, her figure was formed, and her appearance womanly and graceful.
There, on a table, surrounded at some distance by a large and luxurious divan, every species of tobacco known,—from the yellow tobacco of Petersburg to the black of Sinai, and so on along the scale from Maryland and Porto Rico, to Latakia,—was exposed in pots of crackled earthenware of which the Dutch are so fond; beside them, in boxes of fragrant wood, were ranged, according to their size and quality, puros, regalias, havanas, and manillas; and, in an open cabinet, a collection of German pipes, of chibouques, with their amber mouth-pieces ornamented with coral, and of narghiles, with their long tubes of morocco, awaiting the caprice or the sympathy of the smokers.
Other matches
- scale An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for... A2
- scale To remove the scales of. C2
- scale Part of an overlapping arrangement of many smal... C2
- scale A device to measure mass or weight. C2
- scale back To make a reduction in the amount, extent, etc....
- scale down To reduce the size of something whilst maintain...
- scale in To incrementally enter a position on an oversol...
- scale off To peel off
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