scale 的 3 个定义
- Zoology. one of the thin, flat, horny plates forming the covering of certain animals, as snakes, lizards, and pangolins.one of the hard, bony or dentinal plates, either flat or denticulate, forming the covering of certain other animals, as fishes.
- any thin, platelike piece, lamina, or flake that peels off from a surface, as from the skin.
- Botany. Also called bud scale. a rudimentary body, usually a specialized leaf and often covered with hair, wax, or resin, enclosing an immature leaf bud.a thin, scarious or membranous part of a plant, as a bract of a catkin.
- (7)
scaled, scal·ing.
- to remove the scales or scale from: to scale a fish.
- to remove in scales or thin layers.
- to cover with an incrustation or scale.
- (5)
scaled, scal·ing.
- to come off in scales.
- to shed scales.
- to become coated with scale, as the inside of a boiler.
scale 近义词
graduated system
thin covering, skin
ascend, climb
measure
由scale构成的短语
- scale down
- tip the balance (scale)
- turn the tables (scales)
更多scale例句
- Today, something similar is underway, albeit on a smaller scale.
- In response to an unprecedented threat, emergency mobilization on a wartime scale seemed necessary.
- Now that we feel confident about the unit economics, we can start to turn on the scale thing.
- However, he added that he does not think that massive scale events, like the one that The Atlantic’s aiming to put on, will be able to achieve the required networking and interaction.
- Liu said this allowed the media property to have “far exceeded” the scale it had set out to meet.
- The most recent activity had a high point of 3.6 on the Richter Scale.
- So did Alexander Hamilton, and on a grander scale than your AmEx.
- Only two senators opposed the resolution, which the administration later claimed was the authority for a full-scale war.
- The last time there was a raid of this scale was in 2001, when 52 men were arrested on Queen Boat, a floating disco on the Nile.
- Some of the streets in this part of the town have seen large scale-destruction.
- On a small scale map, in an office, you may make mole-hills of mountains; on the ground there's no escaping from its features.
- Free discussion—never a very free thing in Russia—has now on any general scale become quite impossible.
- But consider what it will be when the system is adopted on a more comprehensive scale.
- If only India were pulling her weight for us on the same scale, we should by now be before the gates of Vienna.
- Aber Jeder will grossartig spielen heutzutage (But everybody wants to play on a grand scale now-a-days).