scalenoun詞源 1/skeɪl/

• 1

  obsoleteA ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.

• 2

  An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.

  • Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
  • The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.
• 3

  Size; scope.

  • There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.
  • 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.
• 4

  The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.

  • This map uses a scale of 1:10.
• 5

  A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.

  • 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.
• 6

  entertainmentlifestylemusicA series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.

• 7

  A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.

  • the decimal scale, the binary scale
• 8

  Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.

  • There is a certain scale of duties […] which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion.
  • 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.

scaleverb詞源 1/skeɪl/

• 1

  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.
• 2

  To climb to the top of.

  • Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
  • 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.
• 3

  businesscomputingengineeringTo tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.

  • That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
• 4

  To handle heavily increasing loads without breaking down.

  • We started using the term “scaling” in place of “growing” around the late 1990s to early 2000s, primarily due to the rise of venture-backed startups in Silicon Valley. The term migrated from tech/infrastructure (“can this system scale?”) to startups (“can this business scale?”)
• 5

  businessTo increase revenues exponentially without proportional increases in costs.

  • We started using the term “scaling” in place of “growing” around the late 1990s to early 2000s, primarily due to the rise of venture-backed startups in Silicon Valley. [...] VCs needed a way to describe businesses that could grow exponentially without adding proportional headcount or expense. So scalability became the holy grail. The term migrated from tech/infrastructure (“can this system scale?”) to startups (“can this business scale?”) and now everyone from lifestyle brands to DTC businesses use it as a universal term for "make business go big." (By the mid-2010s, “scale” was in every pitch deck and founder tweet, even if what they really meant was: “We’re trying to 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸, but we want to sound smarter so we're using the term "scale".”) This change in language actually had a HUGE effect on the minds of the people who were operating businesses across the globe.
  • Being able to move swiftly, try new things is critical in startups, so there shouldn't be friction upstream, but you need to make sure you have good process to purge things that don't scale with the rest.
• 6

  To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.

  • Scaling his present bearing with his past.
  • The kitchen-dining-buffet car scales 49.2 tons.
• 7

  businessmanufacturingTo 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."

scalenoun詞源 2/skeɪl/

• 1

  Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.

  • Fish that, with their fins and shining scales, / Glide under the green wave.
• 2

  A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.

• 3

  A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.

• 4

  Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.

• 5

  The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.

• 6

  Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).

• 7

  Limescale.

• 8

  A scale insect.

scaleverb詞源 2/skeɪl/

• 1

  To remove the scales of.

  • Please scale that fish for dinner.
• 2

  To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.

  • The dry weather is making my skin scale.
• 3

  To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.

  • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth if all the mountains and hills were scaled, and the earth made even
• 4

  To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.

  • Some sandstone scales by exposure.
  • 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.
• 5

  dialectalTo scatter; to spread.

• 6

  To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

  • cannons […]caused to be scaled and loaded

scalenoun詞源 3/skeɪl/

• 1

  A device to measure mass or weight.

  • After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.
• 2

  Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.