"descale" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: descales [present, singular, third-person], descaling [participle, present], descaled [participle, past], descaled [past]
Etymology: de- + scale Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|de|scale}} de- + scale Head templates: {{en-verb}} descale (third-person singular simple present descales, present participle descaling, simple past and past participle descaled)
  1. To remove scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc.
    Sense id: en-descale-en-verb-C3Pc9Pp3 Categories (other): English terms prefixed with de- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with de-: 46 54
  2. To remove the scales from a fish etc. Synonyms: scale, unscale Translations (remove the scales from a fish): 去鱗 (Chinese Mandarin), 去鳞 (qùlín) (Chinese Mandarin), entschuppen (German)
    Sense id: en-descale-en-verb-weaRlu3c Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with de- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 60 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with de-: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'remove the scales from a fish': 22 78
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (remove scale from a boiler): 去垢 (qùgòu) (Chinese Mandarin), entkalken (German), entkalleken (Luxembourgish), descalcificar (Spanish), desincrustar (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'remove scale from a boiler': 50 50

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for descale meaning in All languages combined (2.5kB)

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