Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scale

A device for measuring weight.

plural 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).

On a large scale: involving large amounts or volumes of something.

(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.

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.

(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.

A device to measure mass or weight. / Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.

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