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Scale can be a verb or a noun.
scale used as a verb:
- 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.
"Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest." - (computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
"That architecture won't scale to real-world environments." - To remove the scales of.
"Please scale that fish for dinner." - To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
"The dry weather is making my skin scale."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
scale used as a noun:
- An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement.
"Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10." - Size; scope.
"The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale." - The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
"This map uses a scale of 1:10." - A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced
- A means of assigning a magnitude.
"The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale." - A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- 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.
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- A pine nut of a pinecone.
- The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- Limescale
- A device to measure mass or weight.
"After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale." - Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is scale?
- Verb usage: We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
- Verb usage: Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
- Verb usage: That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
- Verb usage: Please scale that fish for dinner.
- Verb usage: The dry weather is making my skin scale.
- Noun usage: Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
- Noun usage: The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale.
- Noun usage: There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.
- Noun usage: This map uses a scale of 1:10.
- Noun usage: The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.
- Noun usage: After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of scale are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of scale, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
