plural of scale

A device for measuring weight.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scale

A surname. / An unincorporated community in Sierra County, California, United States. / A small village in Aldingham parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD2772).

The act of one who scales or climbs. / The removing of the scales of fish. / The formation of a layer of scale on a surface. / The removal of a layer of scale from a surface.

present participle of scale

(transitive) To remove the scales of. / (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales. / (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.

(obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. / An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude. / Size; scope.

(transitive) 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.

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.