English Dictionary

scale

IPA（発音記号）

/skeɪl/

名詞

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.

日本語の意味

動物の皮膚を覆う、互いに重なり合う小さく平らで硬いケラチンからなる部分（特に魚や爬虫類に見られる鱗）

A single iridescent scale had stuck to the fisherman's glove after he handled the carp.

コイを扱った後、漁師の手袋に一枚の虹色に光るうろこがくっついていた。

意味（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.

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.

意味（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.

意味（5）

The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.

意味（6）

Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).

意味（7）

Limescale.

意味（8）

A scale insect.

意味（9）

The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.

scales （ plural ）