Scale
71scale — See: TO SCALE …
72scale up — verb a) To increase the size of something whilst maintaining proportion b) To change a process in order to allow for greater quantities Ant: scale down …
73scale — A non articulated cuticular extension of which the base is generally very wide relative to its length; microscopic secondary features may arm the outer margin; this term should not be used to describe very small extensions of setal shafts… …
74scale — in general use refers to the size of an area or time period. On maps, the scale indicates how many centimetres in the real world are represented by a centimetre on the map …
75Scale — 1. ride on public transport without paying a fare: scale a rattler ; scaling trains ; 2. (obsolete) defraud or cheat out of money …
76scale — I Australian Slang 1. ride on public transport without paying a fare: scale a rattler ; scaling trains ; 2. (obsolete) defraud or cheat out of money II Mawdesley Glossary to rake the bars of the fire with the poker …
77scale — scala лат., ит. [ска/ла] scale англ. [скэ/йл] звукоряд, гамма ◊ scala naturale ит. [ска/ла натура/ле] натуральный звукоряд …
78scale up — PHRASAL VERB If you scale up something, you make it greater in size, amount, or extent than it used to be. [V P n (not pron)] Simply scaling up a size 10 garment often leads to disaster... [V P n (not pron)] Since then, Wellcome has been scaling… …
79scale up — the departments intend to scale up their activities Syn: increase, expand, augment, build up, add to; step up, boost, escalate …
80scale — Dry, flattened, papery body; used colloquially in reference to sporophylls; any number of pest insects of cycads, e.g. cycad aulacaspis scale …
