"scale" meaning in English

See scale in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /skeɪl/ [General-American, UK], [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ] [General-American, UK], /skæɪl/ [General-Australian], [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ] [General-Australian] Audio: en-us-scale.ogg [US], en-au-scale.ogg [Australia] Forms: scales [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪl Etymology: From Middle English scale, from Latin scāla, usually in plural scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *skand-slā, from scandō (“I climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|scale}} Middle English scale, {{der|en|la|scāla}} Latin scāla, {{m|la|scālae||a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder}} scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), {{m|la||*skand-slā}} *skand-slā, {{m|la|scandō||I climb}} scandō (“I climb”), {{doublet|en|scala}} Doublet of scala Head templates: {{en-noun}} scale (plural scales)
  1. (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-en:ascension_or_the_means_thereof
  2. An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude. Translations (sequence for measurement): ⁧مِقْيَاس⁩ (miqyās) [masculine] (Arabic), սանդղակ (sandġak) (Armenian), miqyas (Azerbaijani), шкала́ (škalá) [feminine] (Belarusian), ска́ла (skála) [feminine] (Bulgarian), escala [feminine] (Catalan), 尺度 (chǐdù) (Chinese Mandarin), 標度 (Chinese Mandarin), 标度 (biāodù) (Chinese Mandarin), şkala (Crimean Tatar), stupnice [feminine] (Czech), skala [common-gender] (Danish), schaal [feminine] (Dutch), asteikko (Finnish), échelle [feminine] (French), escala [feminine] (Galician), Skala [feminine] (German), κλίμακα (klímaka) [feminine] (Greek), ⁧סולם⁩ (sulam) [masculine] (Hebrew), scala (Italian), 目盛り (memori) (Japanese), 強度 (kyōdo) (Japanese), 等級 (tōkyū) (Japanese), 눈금 (nun'geum) (Korean), 척도 (cheokdo) (Korean), skalė [feminine] (Lithuanian), tauine (Maori), skala [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), skala [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), skala [feminine] (Polish), escala [feminine] (Portuguese), scară [feminine] (Romanian), шкала́ (škalá) [feminine] (Russian), sgèile [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), ljestvica [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), stupnice (Serbo-Croatian), škála [feminine] (Slovak), stupnica [feminine] (Slovak), lestvica [feminine] (Slovene), skala [feminine] (Slovene), escala [feminine] (Spanish), skala [common-gender] (Swedish), talalakihan (Tagalog), sukuran (Tagalog), talasukuran (Tagalog), talasukatan (Tagalog), స్కేలు (skēlu) (Telugu), కొలత (kolata) (Telugu), ప్రమాణము (pramāṇamu) (Telugu), шкала́ (škalá) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-en:ordered_sequence_for_measurement Disambiguation of 'sequence for measurement': 1 56 4 1 22 2 1 6 7
  3. Size; scope. Translations (size or scope): մասշտաբ (masštab) (Armenian), miqyas (Azerbaijani), машта́б (maštáb) [masculine] (Belarusian), размер (razmer) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 規模 (Chinese Mandarin), 规模 (guīmó) (Chinese Mandarin), şkala (Crimean Tatar), škála [feminine] (Czech), schaal [feminine] (Dutch), mittakaava (Finnish), skaala (Finnish), luokka (Finnish), échelle [feminine] (French), Ausmaß [neuter] (German), μέγεθος (mégethos) [neuter] (Greek), έκταση (éktasi) [feminine] (Greek), 大きさ (ōkisa) (Japanese), 規模 (kibo) (Japanese), 규모 (gyumo) (Korean), mērogs [masculine] (Latvian), mastas [masculine] (Lithuanian), skala (Malay), skala [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), skala [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ⁧مقیاس⁩ (Persian), ⁧اندازه⁩ (Persian), skala [feminine] (Polish), tamanho [masculine] (Portuguese), scară [feminine] (Romanian), масшта́б (masštáb) [masculine] (Russian), meudachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), škála [feminine] (Slovak), velikost [feminine] (Slovene), merilo [neuter] (Slovene), escala [feminine] (Spanish), skala [common-gender] (Swedish), talaantasan (Tagalog), స్థాయి (sthāyi) (Telugu), పరిమాణము (parimāṇamu) (Telugu), масшта́б (masštáb) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-en:size_or_scope Disambiguation of 'size or scope': 5 4 67 2 3 7 3 8 2
  4. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance. Translations (ratio of distances): ⁧مِيزَان⁩ (mīzān) [masculine] (Arabic), մասշտաբ (masštab) (Armenian), машта́б (maštáb) [masculine] (Belarusian), skeul [feminine] (Breton), маща́б (maštáb) [masculine] (Bulgarian), စကေး (ca.ke:) (Burmese), escala [feminine] (Catalan), 比例尺 (bǐlìchǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), şkala (Crimean Tatar), měřítko [neuter] (Czech), størrelsesforhold [neuter] (Danish), målestok [common-gender] (Danish), schaal [feminine] (Dutch), mittakaava (Finnish), échelle [feminine] (French), Maßstab [masculine] (German), κλίμακα (klímaka) [feminine] (Greek), ⁧קנה מידה⁩ (kne mida) [masculine] (Hebrew), beosztás (Hungarian), scala [feminine] (Italian), 縮尺比 (shukushaku hi) (Japanese), មាត្រដ្ឋាន (mietrattʰaan) (Khmer), 정도 (jeongdo) (Korean), mastelis [masculine] (Lithuanian), āwhata (Maori), skala [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), skala [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), skala [feminine] (Polish), escala [feminine] (Portuguese), масшта́б (masštáb) [masculine] (Russian), sgèile [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), mjerilo [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), škála [feminine] (Slovak), merilo [neuter] (Slovene), escala [feminine] (Spanish), måttstock (Swedish), skala [common-gender] (Swedish), talalakihan (Tagalog), స్కేలు (skēlu) (Telugu), масшта́б (masštáb) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-en:ratio_of_distances Disambiguation of 'ratio of distances': 6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4
  5. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced. Translations (line or bar used to indicate measurement): mittakaava (Finnish), proporção [feminine] (Portuguese), escala [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-en:line_or_bar_as_legend Disambiguation of 'line or bar used to indicate measurement': 2 22 2 1 56 11 0 2 3
  6. (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies. Categories (topical): Music Translations (series of notes): гама (gama) [feminine] (Bulgarian), escala [feminine] (Catalan), 音階 (Chinese Cantonese), 音阶 (jam¹ gaai¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 音階 (Chinese Mandarin), 音阶 (yīnjiē) (Chinese Mandarin), stupnice [feminine] (Czech), skala [common-gender] (Danish), toonladder [feminine] (Dutch), gamo (Esperanto), skalo (Esperanto), asteikko (Finnish), sävelasteikko (Finnish), skaala (Finnish), échelle (French), gamme [feminine] (French), Tonleiter [feminine] (German), κλίμακα (klímaka) [feminine] (Greek), ⁧סולם⁩ (sulam) [masculine] (Hebrew), hangsor (Hungarian), skála (Hungarian), tangga nada (Indonesian), scala [feminine] (Italian), gamma [feminine] (Italian), 音階 (onkai) (alt: おんかい) (Japanese), スケール (sukēru) (Japanese), សន្ទមាលា (sɑntea’ mielie) (Khmer), 음계 (eumgye) (alt: 音階) (Korean), scala [feminine] (Latin), āwhata (Maori), 音階 (Min Nan Chinese), 音阶 (im-kai) (Min Nan Chinese), skala [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), skala [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), skala [feminine] (Polish), escala [feminine] (Portuguese), gamă [feminine] (Romanian), га́мма (gámma) (Russian), sgèile [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), stupnica [feminine] (Slovak), lestvica [feminine] (Slovene), escala [feminine] (Spanish), gama [feminine] (Spanish), skala [common-gender] (Swedish), âm giai (alt: 音階) (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-en:series_of_musical_notes Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music Disambiguation of 'series of notes': 14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2
  7. A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-en:radix_in_mathematics
  8. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order. Translations (gradation; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order): ⁧سُلَّم⁩ (sullam) [masculine] (Arabic), asteikko (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-en:graduations_or_schema_of_progression Disambiguation of 'gradation; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order': 4 2 3 1 2 6 1 81 2
  9. A standard amount of money to be paid for a service, for example union-negotiated amounts received by a performer or writer.
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-en:standard_pay_level
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: degree, ordinal variable
Etymology number: 1 Hyponyms: Arabic scale, blue scale, blues scale, bugle scale, Byzantine Music scale, chromatic scale, diatonic scale, diminished scale, dodecuple scale, gapped scale, Istrian scale, major scale, minor scale, modal scale, musical scale, octatonic scale, pentatonic scale, Persian scale, Phrygian dominant scale, whole-tone scale, Celsius scale, Delisle scale, Fahrenheit scale, Kelvin scale, length scale, Newton scale, Planck scale, Rankine scale, Rankin scale, Réaumur scale, Rømer scale, timescale, Kinsey scale [psychology, human-sciences, sciences], absolute scale, Antoniadi scale, Baumé scale, Beaufort scale, Beck's scale, Bortle scale, Bristol stool scale, check scale, communicable scale, cosmological scale, diagonal scale, dynamic scale, engineer's scale, ensign scale, felt scale, Fitzpatrick scale, F-scale, Fujita scale, Garn scale, Hamilton-Norwood scale, Holmes-Rahe scale, HO scale, Indian wax scale, Kardashev scale, Likert scale, Ludwig scale, medium scale integration, megascale, Mohs' scale, Mohs scale, Norwood scale, not-to-scale, N scale, ordinal scale, Pauling scale, pay scale, pernicious scale, Pomeroy scale, Prader scale, Quigley scale, ratio scale, Ravel scale, reducing scale, Saffir-Simpson scale, scale-down, scale-up, Scoville scale, Shepard scale, short scale, sliding scale, Tanner scale, tone scale, Torino scale, to-scale, Wentworth scale, wind scale Hyponyms (earthquake): Mercalli scale, Palermo scale, Richter scale Hyponyms (economy): wage scale Disambiguation of 'earthquake': 11 13 17 7 11 11 5 17 8 Disambiguation of 'economy': 8 16 5 12 14 14 6 16 9 Derived forms: altered scale, at scale, diseconomies of scale, economies of scale, full-scale, global-scale, gray-scale, Gunter's scale, industrial scale, Internet-scale, large-scale, long scale, medium-scale, microscale, milliscale, off the scale, Raglan's scale, returns to scale, room-scale, scale bar, scalebound, scale cube, scale degree, scalefree, scale height, scale invariance, scale model, scale ruler, small-scale, thumb on the scale, timescale, time scale, to scale, ultra large scale integration, upscale, very large scale integration, wafer-scale integration, widescale, wide-scale Coordinate_terms: cartographic ratio, extent, focus, grain, range, resolution, size, support, dominant, leading note, mediant, octave interval, subdominant, submediant, supertonic, tonic

Noun

IPA: /skeɪl/ [General-American, UK], [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ] [General-American, UK], /skæɪl/ [General-Australian], [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ] [General-Australian] Audio: en-us-scale.ogg [US], en-au-scale.ogg [Australia] Forms: scales [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪl Etymology: From Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skalō. Cognate with Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale. Etymology templates: {{langname|en}} English, {{senseno|en|fish}} sense 1, {{inh|en|enm|scale}} Middle English scale, {{der|en|fro|escale}} Old French escale, {{der|en|frk|-}} Frankish, {{der|en|goh|skala}} Old High German skala, {{der|en|gem-pro|*skalō}} Proto-Germanic *skalō, {{cog|ang|sċealu|t=shell, husk}} Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”), {{doublet|en|shale|notext=1}} shale, {{cog|nl|schaal}} Dutch schaal, {{cog|de|Schale}} German Schale, {{cog|fr|écale}} French écale Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} scale (countable and uncountable, plural scales)
  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. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals): ラㇺラㇺ (ramram) (Ainu), luspë [feminine] (Albanian), λεπίς (lepís) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), ⁧فَلْس⁩ (fals) [masculine] (Arabic), ⁧حَرْشَف⁩ (ḥaršaf) [masculine] (Arabic), թեփ (tʿepʿ) (Armenian), թեփուկ (tʿepʿuk) (Armenian), axça (Azerbaijani), тәңкә (təñkə) (note: in fish) (Bashkir), ezkata (Basque), sisik (Bau Bidayuh), лу́ска (lúska) [feminine] (Belarusian), лю́спи (ljúspi) [plural] (Bulgarian), အကြေး (a.kre:) (Burmese), escata [feminine] (Catalan), kalis (Cebuano), sisiek (Central Melanau), nap (note: of fishes) (Central Melanau), ijtaka (Chamicuro), mamba (Chichewa), (Chinese Mandarin), (lín) (Chinese Mandarin), šupina [feminine] (Czech), skæl (Danish), schub [common-gender] (Dutch), S:n:f-t:N33C (šnft) (note: of a fish) [feminine] (Egyptian), skvamo (Esperanto), soomus (Estonian), suomu (Finnish), écaille [feminine] (French), ქერცლი (kercli) (Georgian), ქერქლი (kerkli) (Georgian), ქიცვი (kicvi) (Georgian), Schuppe [feminine] (German), λέπι (lépi) [neuter] (Greek), tattak (Greenlandic), unahi (Hawaiian), ⁧קשקש⁩ (kaskas) [masculine] (Hebrew), पपड़ी (papṛī) [feminine] (Hindi), pikkely (Hungarian), Schullep [feminine] (Hunsrik), Schupp [feminine] (Hunsrik), soomus (Ingrian), scaglia [feminine] (Italian), squama [feminine] (Italian), (uroko) (Japanese), қабыршақ (qabyrşaq) (Kazakh), ស្រកា (srɑɑkaa) (Khmer), sisi (Kimaragang), 비늘 (bineul) (Korean), (irichī) (alt: いりちー) (Kunigami), кабырчык (kabırcık) (Kyrgyz), кабык (kabık) (Kyrgyz), ເກັດ (ket) (Lao), ຂອດ (khǭt) (Lao), squāma [feminine] (Latin), zvīņas [feminine, plural] (Latvian), žvynai [masculine, plural] (Lithuanian), крлушка (krluška) [feminine] (Macedonian), sisik (Malay), unahi (Maori), хайрс (xajrs) (Mongolian), êcrède [feminine] (Norman), skjell [feminine, masculine, neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), skjel [feminine, neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), escata [feminine] (Occitan), escauma [feminine] (Occitan), placa [feminine] (Occitan), (irichi) (alt: いりち) (Okinawan), sċiell [feminine] (Old English), ⁧فلس⁩ (fals) (Persian), ⁧حرشف⁩ (haršaf) (Persian), łuska [feminine] (Polish), escama [feminine] (Portuguese), solz [masculine] (Romanian), scuamă [feminine] (Romanian), чешуя́ (češujá) [feminine] (Russian), кр̏љӯшт [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), љу̏ска [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), kȑljūšt [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ljȕska [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), scagghia [feminine] (Sicilian), šupina [feminine] (Slovak), luska [feminine] (Slovene), escama [feminine] (Spanish), fjäll (Swedish), sisi' (Tagal Murut), kaliskis (Tagalog), пулакча (pulakča) (Tajik), పొలుసు (polusu) (Telugu), เกล็ด (glèt) (Thai), pul (Turkish), лу́ска (lúska) [feminine] (Ukrainian), tangacha (Uzbek), vảy (Vietnamese), tegül (Volapük), sisik (West Coast Bajau), ⁧שופּ⁩ (shup) [neuter] (Yiddish), pul (Zazaki)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-en:fish Disambiguation of 'keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals': 44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7
  2. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (coloured chitin): suomu (Finnish), écaille [feminine] (French), 鱗片 (rinpen) (Japanese), чешу́йка (češújka) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-jFAWBlEJ Disambiguation of 'coloured chitin': 8 34 9 4 3 15 7 10 10
  3. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (flake of skin): hilse (Finnish), squame [feminine] (French), Schuppe [feminine] (German), łuska [feminine] (Polish), чешу́йка (češújka) [feminine] (Russian), luska [feminine] (Slovene)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-gy3tmMDT Disambiguation of 'flake of skin': 8 4 72 4 1 3 1 2 4
  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. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (pine nut): suomu (Finnish), écaille [feminine] (French), 鱗片 (rinpen) (Japanese), zvīņas [feminine, plural] (Latvian), kalisdahon (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-LUDw-R-P Disambiguation of 'pine nut': 1 1 1 77 0 6 3 7 3
  5. (uncountable) The flaky material sloughed off heated metal. Tags: uncountable Translations (flaky material sloughed off heated metal): ərp (Azerbaijani), накип (nakip) [masculine] (Bulgarian), okuj [feminine] (Czech), pajahilse (Finnish), barbure [feminine] (French), на́кипь (nákipʹ) (Russian), scagghia [feminine] (Sicilian)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-2RJyy0qS Disambiguation of 'flaky material sloughed off heated metal': 1 1 1 0 93 2 1 1 1
  6. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail). Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (scale mail): suomupanssari (Finnish), Schuppenpanzer [masculine] (German), ⁧برگستوان⁩ (bargostvân) (Persian), fjällpansar [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-KQaisUBl Disambiguation of 'scale mail': 1 1 1 1 1 65 4 23 3
  7. (uncountable) Limescale. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-9fx31RpK
  8. A scale insect. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Scale insects
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-nSXOt~4y Disambiguation of Scale insects: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 5 2 56 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 3 1 1 1
  9. The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-tz45rknO
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Noun

IPA: /skeɪl/ [General-American, UK], [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ] [General-American, UK], /skæɪl/ [General-Australian], [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ] [General-Australian] Audio: en-us-scale.ogg [US], en-au-scale.ogg [Australia] Forms: scales [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪl Etymology: From Middle English scale, from Old Norse skál (“bowl”) from Proto-Germanic *skēlō. Compare Danish skål (“bowl, cup”), Dutch schaal, German Schale, Old High German scāla, Old English scealu (“cup”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|scale}} Middle English scale, {{der|en|non|skál||bowl}} Old Norse skál (“bowl”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*skēlō}} Proto-Germanic *skēlō, {{cog|da|skål||bowl, cup}} Danish skål (“bowl, cup”), {{cog|nl|schaal}} Dutch schaal, {{m|de|Schale}} Schale, {{m|goh|scāla}} scāla, {{m|ang|scealu||cup}} scealu (“cup”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} scale (plural scales)
  1. A device to measure mass or weight.
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-VrKZwcdL
  2. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales. Translations (dish of a balance): πλάστιγξ (plástinx) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), նժար (nžar) (Armenian), блюдо на везна (bljudo na vezna) (Bulgarian), weegschaal [feminine] (Dutch), vaakakuppi (Finnish), plateau (english: d'une balance) [masculine] (French), Waagschale [feminine] (German), (hakari) (Japanese), 天秤 (tenbin) (Japanese), ថាសជញ្ជីង (tʰaah cʊəɲciiŋ) (Khmer), թաթ (tʿatʿ) (Old Armenian), szala [feminine] (Polish), prato [masculine] (Portuguese), ча́ша весо́в (čáša vesóv) [feminine] (Russian), тас [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), tas [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), platillo [masculine] (Spanish), vågskål [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-noun-ZOk2E7aK Disambiguation of 'dish of a balance': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: platform scale, sample scale, suspension scale, tip the scale, torsion scale, turn the scale
Etymology number: 3

Verb

IPA: /skeɪl/ [General-American, UK], [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ] [General-American, UK], /skæɪl/ [General-Australian], [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ] [General-Australian] Audio: en-us-scale.ogg [US], en-au-scale.ogg [Australia] Forms: scales [present, singular, third-person], scaling [participle, present], scaled [participle, past], scaled [past]
Rhymes: -eɪl Etymology: From Middle English scale, from Latin scāla, usually in plural scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *skand-slā, from scandō (“I climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|scale}} Middle English scale, {{der|en|la|scāla}} Latin scāla, {{m|la|scālae||a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder}} scālae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), {{m|la||*skand-slā}} *skand-slā, {{m|la|scandō||I climb}} scandō (“I climb”), {{doublet|en|scala}} Doublet of scala Head templates: {{en-verb}} scale (third-person singular simple present scales, present participle scaling, simple past and past participle scaled)
  1. (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. Tags: transitive Translations (to change size of): мащабирам (maštabiram) (Bulgarian), skálovat (Czech), opschalen (english: scale up) (Dutch), mõõtmestama (Estonian), skaalata (Finnish), muuttaa mittakaavaa (Finnish), suurentaa (english: scale up) (Finnish), pienentää (english: scale down) (Finnish), muuttaa kokoa (Finnish), agrandir (english: scale up) (French), réduire (english: scale down) (French), skalieren (German), whakatauine (Maori), escalar (Portuguese), масштаби́ровать (masštabírovatʹ) (Russian), škálovať (Slovak), agrandar (english: scale up) (Spanish), reducir (english: scale down) (Spanish), skala (Swedish), ölçeklemek (Turkish), ölçeklendirmek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-verb-en:change_size Disambiguation of 'to change size of': 100 0 0 0
  2. (transitive) To climb to the top of. Tags: transitive Translations (to climb): катеря се (katerja se) (Bulgarian), kiivetä (Finnish), kivuta (Finnish), escalader (French), besteigen (German), erklimmen (German), klimar (Ido), 登る (noboru) (Japanese), scandō (Latin), ascendō (Latin), kake (Maori), piki (Maori), escalar (Portuguese), взбира́ться (vzbirátʹsja) (Russian), escalar (Spanish), bestiga (Swedish), tırmanmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-verb-s83jyrNG Disambiguation of 'to climb': 6 81 9 4
  3. (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Computing Translations (to tolerate increases in throughput): skaalautua (Finnish), mukautua (Finnish), 見合う (miau) (Japanese), škálovať (Slovak)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-verb-r~roo1uU Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'to tolerate increases in throughput': 5 3 90 2
  4. (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system. Tags: transitive Translations (to weigh): punnita (Finnish), vážiť (Slovak)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-verb-y9Eavcew Disambiguation of 'to weigh': 3 3 3 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: scale back, scale down, scale out, scale up Related terms: scaling ladder
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /skeɪl/ [General-American, UK], [skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ] [General-American, UK], /skæɪl/ [General-Australian], [skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ] [General-Australian] Audio: en-us-scale.ogg [US], en-au-scale.ogg [Australia] Forms: scales [present, singular, third-person], scaling [participle, present], scaled [participle, past], scaled [past]
Rhymes: -eɪl Etymology: From Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skalō. Cognate with Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale. Etymology templates: {{langname|en}} English, {{senseno|en|fish}} sense 1, {{inh|en|enm|scale}} Middle English scale, {{der|en|fro|escale}} Old French escale, {{der|en|frk|-}} Frankish, {{der|en|goh|skala}} Old High German skala, {{der|en|gem-pro|*skalō}} Proto-Germanic *skalō, {{cog|ang|sċealu|t=shell, husk}} Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”), {{doublet|en|shale|notext=1}} shale, {{cog|nl|schaal}} Dutch schaal, {{cog|de|Schale}} German Schale, {{cog|fr|écale}} French écale Head templates: {{en-verb}} scale (third-person singular simple present scales, present participle scaling, simple past and past participle scaled)
  1. (transitive) To remove the scales of. Tags: transitive Synonyms: descale Translations (remove the scales of): лющя (ljuštja) (Bulgarian), suomustaa (Finnish), écailler (French), escamar (Galician), აქერცვლა (akercvla) (Georgian), entschuppen (German), 鱗を落とす (uroko o otosu) (Japanese), 鱗を除く (uroko o nozoku) (Japanese), skama (Kabuverdianu), skamá (Kabuverdianu), unahi (Maori), čuopmat (Northern Sami), ociągać [imperfective] (Polish), ociągnąć [perfective] (Polish), escamar (Portuguese), descamar (Portuguese), чисти́ть (čistítʹ) (Russian), escamar (Spanish), fjälla (Swedish), tungi (Ternate), kiki (Tetum), ⁧שאָבן⁩ (shobn) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-verb-BLHaqwBl Disambiguation of 'remove the scales of': 74 5 0 14 2 4 1
  2. (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales. Tags: intransitive Translations (become scaly): лющя се (ljuštja se) (Bulgarian), hilseillä (Finnish), schuppen (German), ガサガサにする (gasagasa ni suru) (Japanese), 肌荒れを起こす (hadaare o okosu) (Japanese), fjälla (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-verb-1Dsrm-8r Disambiguation of 'become scaly': 1 90 1 3 3 2 1
  3. (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale. Tags: transitive Translations (to strip or clear of scale): poistaa hilse (Finnish), აქერცვლა (akercvla) (Georgian)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-verb-22nG2-51 Disambiguation of 'to strip or clear of scale': 0 0 100 0 0 0 0
  4. (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Measuring instruments Translations (to take off in thin layers or scales): kuoria (Finnish), höylätä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-verb-TyuoFL7N Disambiguation of Measuring instruments: 8 5 4 2 4 3 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 5 7 2 2 2 3 8 8 2 10 3 2 1 Disambiguation of 'to take off in thin layers or scales': 8 3 0 73 13 2 0
  5. (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae. Tags: intransitive Translations (to separate and come off in thin layers): hilseillä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-scale-en-verb-8jX4NJP~ Disambiguation of 'to separate and come off in thin layers': 2 2 1 22 70 3 1
  6. (UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread. Tags: Scotland, UK, dialectal
    Sense id: en-scale-en-verb--rvVs9-4 Categories (other): British English, Scottish English
  7. (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-scale-en-verb-doB6MgfV
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: scale off
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "word": "bugle scale"
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      "word": "Byzantine Music scale"
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      "word": "chromatic scale"
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      "word": "gapped scale"
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      "word": "Istrian scale"
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      "word": "modal scale"
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      "word": "musical scale"
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      "word": "octatonic scale"
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      "word": "pentatonic scale"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Persian scale"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Phrygian dominant scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "whole-tone scale"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Celsius scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Delisle scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Fahrenheit scale"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Kelvin scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "length scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Newton scale"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Planck scale"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Rankine scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Rankin scale"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Réaumur scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Rømer scale"
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      "word": "timescale"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "topics": [
        "psychology",
        "human-sciences",
        "sciences"
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    {
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      "word": "absolute scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Antoniadi scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Baumé scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Beaufort scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Beck's scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Bortle scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Bristol stool scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "check scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "communicable scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "cosmological scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "diagonal scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dynamic scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "engineer's scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "ensign scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "felt scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Fitzpatrick scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "F-scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Fujita scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Garn scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Hamilton-Norwood scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Holmes-Rahe scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "HO scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Indian wax scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Kardashev scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Likert scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Ludwig scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "medium scale integration"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "megascale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Mohs' scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Mohs scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Norwood scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "not-to-scale"
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    {
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      "word": "N scale"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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        {
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          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "sequence for measurement",
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          "ref": "2012-01, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-11-14, page 23",
          "text": "We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.",
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          "sense": "size or scope",
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          "word": "⁧اندازه⁩"
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          "sense": "size or scope",
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          ],
          "word": "skala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 4 67 2 3 7 3 8 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "size or scope",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tamanho"
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          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "size or scope",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "scară"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "masštáb",
          "sense": "size or scope",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "масшта́б"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 4 67 2 3 7 3 8 2",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "size or scope",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "meudachd"
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        {
          "_dis1": "5 4 67 2 3 7 3 8 2",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "size or scope",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
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          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "size or scope",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "velikost"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 4 67 2 3 7 3 8 2",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "size or scope",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "merilo"
        },
        {
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "size or scope",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "size or scope",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
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          "word": "skala"
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          "code": "tl",
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          "word": "పరిమాణము"
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          "roman": "masštáb",
          "sense": "size or scope",
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            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "масшта́б"
        }
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        }
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        ],
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          "distance",
          "distance"
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      ],
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          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "mīzān",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "⁧مِيزَان⁩"
        },
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          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
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          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "word": "մասշտաբ"
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          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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        },
        {
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          "code": "br",
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          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "skeul"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "maštáb",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "маща́б"
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        {
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          "code": "my",
          "lang": "Burmese",
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          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "word": "စကေး"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "escala"
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        {
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "word": "比例尺"
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        {
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          "code": "crh",
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          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "word": "şkala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "cs",
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          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "målestok"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "word": "mittakaava"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "échelle"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Maßstab"
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        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "klímaka",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "κλίμακα"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "kne mida",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "⁧קנה מידה⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "word": "beosztás"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "scala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "shukushaku hi",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "mietrattʰaan",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "word": "មាត្រដ្ឋាន"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "jeongdo",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "word": "정도"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mastelis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "word": "āwhata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "skala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "skala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "skala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "escala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "masštáb",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "масшта́б"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "sgèile"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "mjerilo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "škála"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "merilo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "escala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "word": "måttstock"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "skala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "word": "talalakihan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "skēlu",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "word": "స్కేలు"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 6 15 49 5 5 1 9 4",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "masštáb",
          "sense": "ratio of distances",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "масшта́б"
        }
      ]
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          "line",
          "line"
        ],
        [
          "bar",
          "bar"
        ],
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          "magnified",
          "magnified"
        ],
        [
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          "reduced"
        ]
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      ],
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          "_dis1": "2 22 2 1 56 11 0 2 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "line or bar used to indicate measurement",
          "word": "mittakaava"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 22 2 1 56 11 0 2 3",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "line or bar used to indicate measurement",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "proporção"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 22 2 1 56 11 0 2 3",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "line or bar used to indicate measurement",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "escala"
        }
      ]
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    {
      "categories": [
        {
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Music",
          "orig": "en:Music",
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            "Sound",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies."
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        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
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          "series",
          "series"
        ],
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          "note",
          "note"
        ],
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          "octave",
          "octave"
        ],
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          "tritave",
          "tritave"
        ],
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          "pseudo-octave"
        ]
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        "(music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies."
      ],
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      ],
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        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ],
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          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "gama",
          "sense": "series of notes",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "гама"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "series of notes",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "escala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "yue",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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          "word": "音階"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "cmn",
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          "sense": "series of notes",
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        },
        {
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          "code": "nan",
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          "word": "音階"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "nan",
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          "word": "音阶"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "cs",
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          "sense": "series of notes",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "da",
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          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
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            "feminine"
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          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "fi",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "fi",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "fi",
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          "word": "skaala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "fr",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
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          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "gamme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "series of notes",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "klímaka",
          "sense": "series of notes",
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            "feminine"
          ],
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          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "he",
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          "roman": "sulam",
          "sense": "series of notes",
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            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "⁧סולם⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "series of notes",
          "word": "hangsor"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "series of notes",
          "word": "skála"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "id",
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          "sense": "series of notes",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "series of notes",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "series of notes",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "gamma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
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        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "ja",
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          "roman": "sukēru",
          "sense": "series of notes",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 3 4 2 2 61 0 12 2",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "sɑntea’ mielie",
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          "word": "សន្ទមាលា"
        },
        {
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      "audio": "en-us-scale.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/En-us-scale.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-scale.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/En-au-scale.ogg/En-au-scale.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/En-au-scale.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scale"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "antiscalant"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "citricola scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "cotton scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "iron scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lac scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lateral scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "leaf-scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "mill scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "paraffin scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "San Jose scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "scale leaf"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "scales fall from someone's eyes"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "scale tree"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ja",
            "2": "スケール",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "sukēru"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Japanese: スケール (sukēru)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Japanese: スケール (sukēru)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en"
      },
      "expansion": "English",
      "name": "langname"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fish"
      },
      "expansion": "sense 1",
      "name": "senseno"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "scale"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English scale",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "escale"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French escale",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Frankish",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "goh",
        "3": "skala"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German skala",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*skalō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *skalō",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "sċealu",
        "t": "shell, husk"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "shale",
        "notext": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "shale",
      "name": "doublet"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "schaal"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch schaal",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Schale"
      },
      "expansion": "German Schale",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "écale"
      },
      "expansion": "French écale",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skalō. Cognate with Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scales",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "scale (countable and uncountable, plural scales)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sc‧ale"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "id": "en-scale-en-noun-en:fish",
      "links": [
        [
          "overlapping",
          "overlapping"
        ],
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "flat",
          "flat"
        ],
        [
          "hard",
          "hard"
        ],
        [
          "keratin",
          "keratin"
        ],
        [
          "skin",
          "skin"
        ],
        [
          "fish",
          "fish"
        ],
        [
          "reptile",
          "reptile"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:fish"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ain",
          "lang": "Ainu",
          "roman": "ramram",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "ラㇺラㇺ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "luspë"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "fals",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "⁧فَلْس⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ḥaršaf",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "⁧حَرْشَف⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "tʿepʿ",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "թեփ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "tʿepʿuk",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "թեփուկ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "axça"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ba",
          "lang": "Bashkir",
          "note": "in fish",
          "roman": "təñkə",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "тәңкә"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "eu",
          "lang": "Basque",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "ezkata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "sne",
          "lang": "Bau Bidayuh",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "sisik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "lúska",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "лу́ска"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "ljúspi",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "лю́спи"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "my",
          "lang": "Burmese",
          "roman": "a.kre:",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "အကြေး"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "escata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ceb",
          "lang": "Cebuano",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "kalis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "mel",
          "lang": "Central Melanau",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "sisiek"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "mel",
          "lang": "Central Melanau",
          "note": "of fishes",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "nap"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ccc",
          "lang": "Chamicuro",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "ijtaka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ny",
          "lang": "Chichewa",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "mamba"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "鱗"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "lín",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "鳞"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "šupina"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "skæl"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "schub"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "egy",
          "lang": "Egyptian",
          "note": "of a fish",
          "roman": "šnft",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "S:n:f-t:N33C"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "skvamo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "soomus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "suomu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "écaille"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "kercli",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "ქერცლი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "kerkli",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "ქერქლი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "kicvi",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "ქიცვი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Schuppe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "lépi",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "λέπι"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "lepís",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "λεπίς"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "kl",
          "lang": "Greenlandic",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "tattak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "haw",
          "lang": "Hawaiian",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "unahi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "kaskas",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "⁧קשקש⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "papṛī",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "पपड़ी"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "pikkely"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "hrx",
          "lang": "Hunsrik",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Schullep"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "hrx",
          "lang": "Hunsrik",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Schupp"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "izh",
          "lang": "Ingrian",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "soomus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "scaglia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "squama"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "uroko",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "鱗"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "qabyrşaq",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "қабыршақ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "srɑɑkaa",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "ស្រកា"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "kqr",
          "lang": "Kimaragang",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "sisi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "bineul",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "비늘"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "alt": "いりちー",
          "code": "xug",
          "lang": "Kunigami",
          "roman": "irichī",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "鱗"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ky",
          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
          "roman": "kabırcık",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "кабырчык"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ky",
          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
          "roman": "kabık",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "кабык"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "ket",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "ເກັດ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "khǭt",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "ຂອດ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "squāma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "zvīņas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "žvynai"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "krluška",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "крлушка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "sisik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "unahi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "xajrs",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "хайрс"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "nrf",
          "lang": "Norman",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "êcrède"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "skjell"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "skjel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "escata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "escauma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "placa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "alt": "いりち",
          "code": "ryu",
          "lang": "Okinawan",
          "roman": "irichi",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "鱗"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "sċiell"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "fals",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "⁧فلس⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "haršaf",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "⁧حرشف⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "łuska"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "escama"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "solz"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "scuamă"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "češujá",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "чешуя́"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "кр̏љӯшт"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "љу̏ска"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "kȑljūšt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ljȕska"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "scagghia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "šupina"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "luska"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "escama"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "fjäll"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "mvv",
          "lang": "Tagal Murut",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "sisi'"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "kaliskis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "pulakča",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "пулакча"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "polusu",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "పొలుసు"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "glèt",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "เกล็ด"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "pul"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "lúska",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "лу́ска"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "tangacha"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "vảy"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "tegül"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "bdr",
          "lang": "West Coast Bajau",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "sisik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "shup",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "44 11 17 3 3 6 4 6 7",
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
          "word": "pul"
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        "A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color."
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          "wing",
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          "butterfly"
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          "moth"
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          "color"
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        "uncountable"
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "8 34 9 4 3 15 7 10 10",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "coloured chitin",
          "word": "suomu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 34 9 4 3 15 7 10 10",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "coloured chitin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "écaille"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 34 9 4 3 15 7 10 10",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "rinpen",
          "sense": "coloured chitin",
          "word": "鱗片"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 34 9 4 3 15 7 10 10",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "češújka",
          "sense": "coloured chitin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "чешу́йка"
        }
      ]
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    {
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          "flake"
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        "uncountable"
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "8 4 72 4 1 3 1 2 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "flake of skin",
          "word": "hilse"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 4 72 4 1 3 1 2 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "flake of skin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "squame"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 4 72 4 1 3 1 2 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "flake of skin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Schuppe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 4 72 4 1 3 1 2 4",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "flake of skin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "łuska"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 4 72 4 1 3 1 2 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "češújka",
          "sense": "flake of skin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "чешу́йка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 4 72 4 1 3 1 2 4",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "flake of skin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "luska"
        }
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          "flat"
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
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          "_dis1": "1 1 1 77 0 6 3 7 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "pine nut",
          "word": "suomu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 77 0 6 3 7 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "pine nut",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "écaille"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 77 0 6 3 7 3",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "rinpen",
          "sense": "pine nut",
          "word": "鱗片"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 77 0 6 3 7 3",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "pine nut",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "zvīņas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 77 0 6 3 7 3",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "pine nut",
          "word": "kalisdahon"
        }
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        "The flaky material sloughed off heated metal."
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          "flaky",
          "flaky"
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          "slough",
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          "metal",
          "metal"
        ]
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        "(uncountable) The flaky material sloughed off heated metal."
      ],
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        "uncountable"
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 0 93 2 1 1 1",
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "flaky material sloughed off heated metal",
          "word": "ərp"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 0 93 2 1 1 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "nakip",
          "sense": "flaky material sloughed off heated metal",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "накип"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 0 93 2 1 1 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "flaky material sloughed off heated metal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "okuj"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 0 93 2 1 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "flaky material sloughed off heated metal",
          "word": "pajahilse"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 0 93 2 1 1 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "flaky material sloughed off heated metal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "barbure"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 0 93 2 1 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "nákipʹ",
          "sense": "flaky material sloughed off heated metal",
          "word": "на́кипь"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 0 93 2 1 1 1",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "flaky material sloughed off heated metal",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "scagghia"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail)."
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        [
          "Scale mail",
          "scale mail"
        ],
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          "chain mail",
          "chain mail"
        ]
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 1 1 65 4 23 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "scale mail",
          "word": "suomupanssari"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 1 1 65 4 23 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "scale mail",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Schuppenpanzer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 1 1 65 4 23 3",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "bargostvân",
          "sense": "scale mail",
          "word": "⁧برگستوان⁩"
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 1 1 65 4 23 3",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "scale mail",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
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        "Limescale."
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        "(uncountable) Limescale."
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        "General-Australian"
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        "2": "schaal"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch schaal",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Schale"
      },
      "expansion": "German Schale",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "écale"
      },
      "expansion": "French écale",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skalō. Cognate with Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scales",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scaling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scaled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scaled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scale (third-person singular simple present scales, present participle scaling, simple past and past participle scaled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sc‧ale"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Please scale that fish for dinner.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove the scales of."
      ],
      "id": "en-scale-en-verb-BLHaqwBl",
      "links": [
        [
          "remove",
          "remove"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To remove the scales of."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "descale"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "ljuštja",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "лющя"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "suomustaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "écailler"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "escamar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "akercvla",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "აქერცვლა"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "entschuppen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "uroko o otosu",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "鱗を落とす"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "uroko o nozoku",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "鱗を除く"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "kea",
          "lang": "Kabuverdianu",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "skama"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "kea",
          "lang": "Kabuverdianu",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "skamá"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "unahi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "se",
          "lang": "Northern Sami",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "čuopmat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "ociągać"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "ociągnąć"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "escamar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "descamar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "čistítʹ",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "чисти́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "escamar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "fjälla"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "tft",
          "lang": "Ternate",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "tungi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "tet",
          "lang": "Tetum",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "kiki"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 5 0 14 2 4 1",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "shobn",
          "sense": "remove the scales of",
          "word": "⁧שאָבן⁩"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The dry weather is making my skin scale.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become scaly; to produce or develop scales."
      ],
      "id": "en-scale-en-verb-1Dsrm-8r",
      "links": [
        [
          "scaly",
          "scaly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 90 1 3 3 2 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "ljuštja se",
          "sense": "become scaly",
          "word": "лющя се"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 90 1 3 3 2 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "become scaly",
          "word": "hilseillä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 90 1 3 3 2 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "become scaly",
          "word": "schuppen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 90 1 3 3 2 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "gasagasa ni suru",
          "sense": "become scaly",
          "word": "ガサガサにする"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 90 1 3 3 2 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hadaare o okosu",
          "sense": "become scaly",
          "word": "肌荒れを起こす"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 90 1 3 3 2 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "become scaly",
          "word": "fjälla"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to scale the inside of a boiler",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To strip or clear of scale; to descale."
      ],
      "id": "en-scale-en-verb-22nG2-51",
      "links": [
        [
          "descale",
          "descale"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 100 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to strip or clear of scale",
          "word": "poistaa hilse"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 100 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "akercvla",
          "sense": "to strip or clear of scale",
          "word": "აქერცვლა"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "8 5 4 2 4 3 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 5 7 2 2 2 3 8 8 2 10 3 2 1",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Measuring instruments",
          "orig": "en:Measuring instruments",
          "parents": [
            "Tools",
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth\nif all the mountains and hills were scaled, and the earth made even"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface."
      ],
      "id": "en-scale-en-verb-TyuoFL7N",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "8 3 0 73 13 2 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to take off in thin layers or scales",
          "word": "kuoria"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 3 0 73 13 2 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to take off in thin layers or scales",
          "word": "höylätä"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Some sandstone scales by exposure.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae."
      ],
      "id": "en-scale-en-verb-8jX4NJP~",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 2 1 22 70 3 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to separate and come off in thin layers",
          "word": "hilseillä"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To scatter; to spread."
      ],
      "id": "en-scale-en-verb--rvVs9-4",
      "links": [
        [
          "scatter",
          "scatter"
        ],
        [
          "spread",
          "spread"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "UK",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder."
      ],
      "id": "en-scale-en-verb-doB6MgfV",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/skeɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ]",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/skæɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ]",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-scale.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8e/En-us-scale.ogg/En-us-scale.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/En-us-scale.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-scale.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/En-au-scale.ogg/En-au-scale.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/En-au-scale.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scale"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "platform scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sample scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "suspension scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "tip the scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "torsion scale"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "turn the scale"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ja",
            "2": "スケール",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "sukēru"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Japanese: スケール (sukēru)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Japanese: スケール (sukēru)"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "scale"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English scale",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "skál",
        "4": "",
        "5": "bowl"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse skál (“bowl”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*skēlō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *skēlō",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "skål",
        "3": "",
        "4": "bowl, cup"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish skål (“bowl, cup”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "schaal"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch schaal",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Schale"
      },
      "expansion": "Schale",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "scāla"
      },
      "expansion": "scāla",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "scealu",
        "3": "",
        "4": "cup"
      },
      "expansion": "scealu (“cup”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English scale, from Old Norse skál (“bowl”) from Proto-Germanic *skēlō. Compare Danish skål (“bowl, cup”), Dutch schaal, German Schale, Old High German scāla, Old English scealu (“cup”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scales",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scale (plural scales)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sc‧ale"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A device to measure mass or weight."
      ],
      "id": "en-scale-en-noun-VrKZwcdL",
      "links": [
        [
          "device",
          "device"
        ],
        [
          "measure",
          "measure"
        ],
        [
          "mass",
          "mass"
        ],
        [
          "weight",
          "weight"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales."
      ],
      "id": "en-scale-en-noun-ZOk2E7aK",
      "links": [
        [
          "pan",
          "pan"
        ],
        [
          "tray",
          "tray"
        ],
        [
          "dish",
          "dish"
        ],
        [
          "balance",
          "balance"
        ],
        [
          "scales",
          "scales"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "nžar",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "word": "նժար"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "xcl",
          "lang": "Old Armenian",
          "roman": "tʿatʿ",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "word": "թաթ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "bljudo na vezna",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "word": "блюдо на везна"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "weegschaal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "word": "vaakakuppi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "fr",
          "english": "d'une balance",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "plateau"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Waagschale"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "plástinx",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "πλάστιγξ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hakari",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "word": "秤"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "tenbin",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "word": "天秤"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "tʰaah cʊəɲciiŋ",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "word": "ថាសជញ្ជីង"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "szala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "prato"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "čáša vesóv",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ча́ша весо́в"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "тас"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "platillo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "dish of a balance",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "vågskål"
        }
      ]
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      "word": "Hamilton-Norwood scale"
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      "word": "Holmes-Rahe scale"
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    {
      "word": "HO scale"
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      "word": "Indian wax scale"
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      "word": "Kardashev scale"
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      "word": "Likert scale"
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      "word": "Norwood scale"
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      "word": "ordinal scale"
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    {
      "word": "Pauling scale"
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    {
      "word": "pay scale"
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    {
      "word": "pernicious scale"
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    {
      "word": "Pomeroy scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "Prader scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "Quigley scale"
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      "word": "ratio scale"
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      "word": "Ravel scale"
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      "word": "reducing scale"
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      "word": "Saffir-Simpson scale"
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      "word": "Scoville scale"
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      "word": "Shepard scale"
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      "word": "short scale"
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      "word": "sliding scale"
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      "word": "Tanner scale"
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      "word": "tone scale"
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      "word": "Torino scale"
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      "word": "Wentworth scale"
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      "code": "ar",
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      "word": "սանդղակ"
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      "code": "az",
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      "word": "miqyas"
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      "code": "be",
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      "roman": "škalá",
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      "word": "шкала́"
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      "code": "ca",
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "chǐdù",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "尺度"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "標度"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "biāodù",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "标度"
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      "code": "crh",
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      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "şkala"
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "da",
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "asteikko"
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      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "échelle"
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    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escala"
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      "code": "de",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "el",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "he",
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      "roman": "sulam",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "⁧סולם⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "scala"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "memori",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "目盛り"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kyōdo",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "強度"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tōkyū",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "等級"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "nun'geum",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "눈금"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "cheokdo",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "척도"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "skalė"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "tauine"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escala"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "scară"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "škalá",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "шкала́"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sgèile"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ljestvica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "stupnice"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "škála"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "stupnica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lestvica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escala"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "talalakihan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "sukuran"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "talasukuran"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "talasukatan"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "skēlu",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "స్కేలు"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "kolata",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "కొలత"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "pramāṇamu",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "word": "ప్రమాణము"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "škalá",
      "sense": "sequence for measurement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "шкала́"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "masštab",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "մասշտաբ"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "miqyas"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "maštáb",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "машта́б"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razmer",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "размер"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "規模"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "guīmó",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "规模"
    },
    {
      "code": "crh",
      "lang": "Crimean Tatar",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "şkala"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "škála"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "schaal"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "mittakaava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "skaala"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "luokka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "échelle"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Ausmaß"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "mégethos",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "μέγεθος"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "éktasi",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "έκταση"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ōkisa",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "大きさ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kibo",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "規模"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gyumo",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "규모"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mērogs"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mastas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "⁧مقیاس⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "⁧اندازه⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tamanho"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "scară"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "masštáb",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "масшта́б"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "meudachd"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "škála"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "velikost"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "merilo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escala"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "talaantasan"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "sthāyi",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "స్థాయి"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "parimāṇamu",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "word": "పరిమాణము"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "masštáb",
      "sense": "size or scope",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "масшта́б"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "mīzān",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "⁧مِيزَان⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "masštab",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "word": "մասշտաբ"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "maštáb",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "машта́б"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "skeul"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "maštáb",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "маща́б"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "ca.ke:",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "word": "စကေး"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escala"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bǐlìchǐ",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "word": "比例尺"
    },
    {
      "code": "crh",
      "lang": "Crimean Tatar",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "word": "şkala"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "měřítko"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "størrelsesforhold"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "målestok"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "schaal"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "word": "mittakaava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "échelle"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Maßstab"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "klímaka",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "κλίμακα"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "kne mida",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "⁧קנה מידה⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "word": "beosztás"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "scala"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shukushaku hi",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "word": "縮尺比"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "mietrattʰaan",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "word": "មាត្រដ្ឋាន"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jeongdo",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "word": "정도"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mastelis"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "word": "āwhata"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escala"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "masštáb",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "масшта́б"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sgèile"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "mjerilo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "škála"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "merilo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escala"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "word": "måttstock"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "word": "talalakihan"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "skēlu",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "word": "స్కేలు"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "masštáb",
      "sense": "ratio of distances",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "масшта́б"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "line or bar used to indicate measurement",
      "word": "mittakaava"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "line or bar used to indicate measurement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "proporção"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "line or bar used to indicate measurement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escala"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "gama",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гама"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escala"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "音階"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "jam¹ gaai¹",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "音阶"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "音階"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yīnjiē",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "音阶"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan",
      "lang": "Min Nan Chinese",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "音階"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan",
      "lang": "Min Nan Chinese",
      "roman": "im-kai",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "音阶"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "stupnice"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "toonladder"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "gamo"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "skalo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "asteikko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "sävelasteikko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "skaala"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "échelle"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gamme"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Tonleiter"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "klímaka",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "κλίμακα"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "sulam",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "⁧סולם⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "hangsor"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "skála"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "tangga nada"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "scala"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gamma"
    },
    {
      "alt": "おんかい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "onkai",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "音階"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sukēru",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "スケール"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "sɑntea’ mielie",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "សន្ទមាលា"
    },
    {
      "alt": "音階",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "eumgye",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "음계"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "scala"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "āwhata"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escala"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gamă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gámma",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "га́мма"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sgèile"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "stupnica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lestvica"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escala"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gama"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "alt": "音階",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "series of notes",
      "word": "âm giai"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "sullam",
      "sense": "gradation; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "⁧سُلَّم⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "gradation; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order",
      "word": "asteikko"
    }
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}

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    "en:Measuring instruments",
    "en:Scale insects"
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      "name": "inh"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "scāla"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "",
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      "name": "m"
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        "2": "",
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      },
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      "args": {
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        "3": "",
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      "name": "m"
    },
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "scala"
      },
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      "name": "doublet"
    }
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "scaling",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "scaled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "scaled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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      "word": "scale back"
    },
    {
      "word": "scale down"
    },
    {
      "word": "scale out"
    },
    {
      "word": "scale up"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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    }
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        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "We should scale that up by a factor of 10.",
          "type": "example"
        }
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        [
          "size",
          "size"
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          "proportion"
        ]
      ],
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        "(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."
      ],
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      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "text": "Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.",
          "type": "example"
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        {
          "ref": "1932, Dorothy L Sayers, chapter 1, in Have his Carcase",
          "text": "A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To climb to the top of."
      ],
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          "climb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To climb to the top of."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English intransitive verbs",
        "en:Computing"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "That architecture won't scale to real-world environments."
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        "To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors."
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          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
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        [
          "throughput",
          "throughput"
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        "(intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ],
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        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1962 July, G. Freeman Allen, “The New \"Rheingold\"”, in Modern Railways, page 25",
          "text": "The kitchen-dining-buffet car scales 49.2 tons.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system."
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          "weigh"
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        [
          "measure",
          "measure"
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        [
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          "grade"
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        "(transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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      "ipa": "/skeɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ]",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/skæɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ]",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪl"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-scale.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8e/En-us-scale.ogg/En-us-scale.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/En-us-scale.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-scale.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/En-au-scale.ogg",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "maštabiram",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "мащабирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "skálovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "english": "scale up",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "opschalen"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "mõõtmestama"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "skaalata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "muuttaa mittakaavaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "scale up",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "suurentaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "scale down",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "pienentää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "muuttaa kokoa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "english": "scale up",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "agrandir"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "english": "scale down",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "réduire"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "skalieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "whakatauine"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "escalar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "masštabírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "масштаби́ровать"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "škálovať"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "english": "scale up",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "agrandar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "english": "scale down",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "reducir"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "skala"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "ölçeklemek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to change size of",
      "word": "ölçeklendirmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "katerja se",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "катеря се"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "kiivetä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "kivuta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "escalader"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "besteigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "erklimmen"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "klimar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "noboru",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "登る"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "scandō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "ascendō"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "kake"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "piki"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "escalar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vzbirátʹsja",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "взбира́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "escalar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "bestiga"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to climb",
      "word": "tırmanmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to tolerate increases in throughput",
      "word": "skaalautua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to tolerate increases in throughput",
      "word": "mukautua"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "miau",
      "sense": "to tolerate increases in throughput",
      "word": "見合う"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to tolerate increases in throughput",
      "word": "škálovať"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to weigh",
      "word": "punnita"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to weigh",
      "word": "vážiť"
    }
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}

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    "en:Measuring instruments",
    "en:Scale insects"
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      "word": "antiscalant"
    },
    {
      "word": "citricola scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "cotton scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "iron scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "lac scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "lateral scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "leaf-scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "mill scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "paraffin scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "San Jose scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "scale leaf"
    },
    {
      "word": "scales fall from someone's eyes"
    },
    {
      "word": "scale tree"
    }
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          "name": "desc"
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      ],
      "text": "→ Japanese: スケール (sukēru)"
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "escale"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French escale",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Frankish",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "goh",
        "3": "skala"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German skala",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*skalō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *skalō",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "sċealu",
        "t": "shell, husk"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "shale",
        "notext": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "shale",
      "name": "doublet"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "schaal"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch schaal",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Schale"
      },
      "expansion": "German Schale",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "écale"
      },
      "expansion": "French écale",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skalō. Cognate with Old English sċealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scales",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "scale (countable and uncountable, plural scales)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sc‧ale"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "overlapping",
          "overlapping"
        ],
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "flat",
          "flat"
        ],
        [
          "hard",
          "hard"
        ],
        [
          "keratin",
          "keratin"
        ],
        [
          "skin",
          "skin"
        ],
        [
          "fish",
          "fish"
        ],
        [
          "reptile",
          "reptile"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:fish"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pigmented",
          "pigmented"
        ],
        [
          "chitin",
          "chitin"
        ],
        [
          "coat",
          "coat"
        ],
        [
          "wing",
          "wing"
        ],
        [
          "butterfly",
          "butterfly"
        ],
        [
          "moth",
          "moth"
        ],
        [
          "color",
          "color"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flake",
          "flake"
        ],
        [
          "dermatitis",
          "dermatitis"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "overlapping",
          "overlapping"
        ],
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "flat",
          "flat"
        ],
        [
          "hard",
          "hard"
        ],
        [
          "protective",
          "protective"
        ],
        [
          "layers",
          "layers"
        ],
        [
          "pinecone",
          "pinecone"
        ],
        [
          "flare",
          "flare"
        ],
        [
          "mature",
          "mature"
        ],
        [
          "pine nut",
          "pine nut"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The flaky material sloughed off heated metal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flaky",
          "flaky"
        ],
        [
          "slough",
          "slough"
        ],
        [
          "metal",
          "metal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) The flaky material sloughed off heated metal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Scale mail",
          "scale mail"
        ],
        [
          "chain mail",
          "chain mail"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Limescale."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Limescale",
          "limescale"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) Limescale."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A scale insect."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "scale insect",
          "scale insect"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pocketknife",
          "pocketknife"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/skeɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ]",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/skæɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ]",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-scale.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8e/En-us-scale.ogg/En-us-scale.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/En-us-scale.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-scale.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/En-au-scale.ogg/En-au-scale.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/En-au-scale.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ain",
      "lang": "Ainu",
      "roman": "ramram",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "ラㇺラㇺ"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "luspë"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "fals",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "⁧فَلْس⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḥaršaf",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "⁧حَرْشَف⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "tʿepʿ",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "թեփ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "tʿepʿuk",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "թեփուկ"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "axça"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "note": "in fish",
      "roman": "təñkə",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "тәңкә"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "ezkata"
    },
    {
      "code": "sne",
      "lang": "Bau Bidayuh",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "sisik"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "lúska",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "лу́ска"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ljúspi",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "лю́спи"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "a.kre:",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "အကြေး"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ceb",
      "lang": "Cebuano",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "kalis"
    },
    {
      "code": "mel",
      "lang": "Central Melanau",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "sisiek"
    },
    {
      "code": "mel",
      "lang": "Central Melanau",
      "note": "of fishes",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "nap"
    },
    {
      "code": "ccc",
      "lang": "Chamicuro",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "ijtaka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ny",
      "lang": "Chichewa",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "mamba"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "鱗"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lín",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "鳞"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "šupina"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "skæl"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "schub"
    },
    {
      "code": "egy",
      "lang": "Egyptian",
      "note": "of a fish",
      "roman": "šnft",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "S:n:f-t:N33C"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "skvamo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "soomus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "suomu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "écaille"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "kercli",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "ქერცლი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "kerkli",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "ქერქლი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "kicvi",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "ქიცვი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schuppe"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "lépi",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "λέπι"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "lepís",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "λεπίς"
    },
    {
      "code": "kl",
      "lang": "Greenlandic",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "tattak"
    },
    {
      "code": "haw",
      "lang": "Hawaiian",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "unahi"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "kaskas",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "⁧קשקש⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "papṛī",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "पपड़ी"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "pikkely"
    },
    {
      "code": "hrx",
      "lang": "Hunsrik",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schullep"
    },
    {
      "code": "hrx",
      "lang": "Hunsrik",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schupp"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "soomus"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "scaglia"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "squama"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "uroko",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "鱗"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "qabyrşaq",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "қабыршақ"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "srɑɑkaa",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "ស្រកា"
    },
    {
      "code": "kqr",
      "lang": "Kimaragang",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "sisi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "bineul",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "비늘"
    },
    {
      "alt": "いりちー",
      "code": "xug",
      "lang": "Kunigami",
      "roman": "irichī",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "鱗"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "kabırcık",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "кабырчык"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "kabık",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "кабык"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "ket",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "ເກັດ"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "khǭt",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "ຂອດ"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "squāma"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "zvīņas"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "žvynai"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "krluška",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "крлушка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "sisik"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "unahi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "xajrs",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "хайрс"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "êcrède"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "skjell"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "skjel"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escata"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escauma"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "placa"
    },
    {
      "alt": "いりち",
      "code": "ryu",
      "lang": "Okinawan",
      "roman": "irichi",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "鱗"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sċiell"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "fals",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "⁧فلس⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "haršaf",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "⁧حرشف⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "łuska"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escama"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "solz"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "scuamă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "češujá",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "чешуя́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кр̏љӯшт"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "љу̏ска"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kȑljūšt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ljȕska"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "scagghia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "šupina"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "luska"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escama"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "fjäll"
    },
    {
      "code": "mvv",
      "lang": "Tagal Murut",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "sisi'"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "kaliskis"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "pulakča",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "пулакча"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "polusu",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "పొలుసు"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "glèt",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "เกล็ด"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "pul"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "lúska",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "лу́ска"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "tangacha"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "vảy"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "tegül"
    },
    {
      "code": "bdr",
      "lang": "West Coast Bajau",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "sisik"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "shup",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "⁧שופּ⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals",
      "word": "pul"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "coloured chitin",
      "word": "suomu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "coloured chitin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "écaille"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "rinpen",
      "sense": "coloured chitin",
      "word": "鱗片"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "češújka",
      "sense": "coloured chitin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "чешу́йка"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "flake of skin",
      "word": "hilse"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "flake of skin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "squame"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "flake of skin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schuppe"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "flake of skin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "łuska"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "češújka",
      "sense": "flake of skin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "чешу́йка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "flake of skin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "luska"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pine nut",
      "word": "suomu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "pine nut",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "écaille"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "rinpen",
      "sense": "pine nut",
      "word": "鱗片"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "pine nut",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "zvīņas"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "pine nut",
      "word": "kalisdahon"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "flaky material sloughed off heated metal",
      "word": "ərp"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nakip",
      "sense": "flaky material sloughed off heated metal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "накип"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "flaky material sloughed off heated metal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "okuj"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "flaky material sloughed off heated metal",
      "word": "pajahilse"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "flaky material sloughed off heated metal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "barbure"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nákipʹ",
      "sense": "flaky material sloughed off heated metal",
      "word": "на́кипь"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "flaky material sloughed off heated metal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "scagghia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "scale mail",
      "word": "suomupanssari"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "scale mail",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Schuppenpanzer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "bargostvân",
      "sense": "scale mail",
      "word": "⁧برگستوان⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "scale mail",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "fjällpansar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scale"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Requests for review of French translations",
    "en:Measuring instruments",
    "en:Scale insects"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "scale off"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
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      "args": {
        "1": "en"
      },
      "expansion": "English",
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    },
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        "2": "fish"
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "scale"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English scale",
      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "escale"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French escale",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "-"
      },
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    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "goh",
        "3": "skala"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*skalō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *skalō",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "sċealu",
        "t": "shell, husk"
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "shale",
        "notext": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "shale",
      "name": "doublet"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "schaal"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch schaal",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Schale"
      },
      "expansion": "German Schale",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "écale"
      },
      "expansion": "French écale",
      "name": "cog"
    }
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    {
      "form": "scales",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scaling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scaled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scaled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {},
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    }
  ],
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    "sc‧ale"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Please scale that fish for dinner.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove the scales of."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "remove",
          "remove"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To remove the scales of."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "descale"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The dry weather is making my skin scale.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become scaly; to produce or develop scales."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "scaly",
          "scaly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to scale the inside of a boiler",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To strip or clear of scale; to descale."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "descale",
          "descale"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth\nif all the mountains and hills were scaled, and the earth made even"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Some sandstone scales by exposure.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To scatter; to spread."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "scatter",
          "scatter"
        ],
        [
          "spread",
          "spread"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "UK",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/skeɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ]",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/skæɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ]",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪl"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
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    {
      "audio": "en-au-scale.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/En-au-scale.ogg/En-au-scale.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/En-au-scale.ogg",
      "tags": [
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ljuštja",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "лющя"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "suomustaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "écailler"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "escamar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "akercvla",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "აქერცვლა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "entschuppen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "uroko o otosu",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "鱗を落とす"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "uroko o nozoku",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "鱗を除く"
    },
    {
      "code": "kea",
      "lang": "Kabuverdianu",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "skama"
    },
    {
      "code": "kea",
      "lang": "Kabuverdianu",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "skamá"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "unahi"
    },
    {
      "code": "se",
      "lang": "Northern Sami",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "čuopmat"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "ociągać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "ociągnąć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "escamar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "descamar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "čistítʹ",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "чисти́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "escamar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "fjälla"
    },
    {
      "code": "tft",
      "lang": "Ternate",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "tungi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tet",
      "lang": "Tetum",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "kiki"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "shobn",
      "sense": "remove the scales of",
      "word": "⁧שאָבן⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ljuštja se",
      "sense": "become scaly",
      "word": "лющя се"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "become scaly",
      "word": "hilseillä"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "become scaly",
      "word": "schuppen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "gasagasa ni suru",
      "sense": "become scaly",
      "word": "ガサガサにする"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hadaare o okosu",
      "sense": "become scaly",
      "word": "肌荒れを起こす"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "become scaly",
      "word": "fjälla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to strip or clear of scale",
      "word": "poistaa hilse"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "akercvla",
      "sense": "to strip or clear of scale",
      "word": "აქერცვლა"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to take off in thin layers or scales",
      "word": "kuoria"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to take off in thin layers or scales",
      "word": "höylätä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to separate and come off in thin layers",
      "word": "hilseillä"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scale"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "en:Measuring instruments",
    "en:Scale insects"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "platform scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "sample scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "suspension scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "tip the scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "torsion scale"
    },
    {
      "word": "turn the scale"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ja",
            "2": "スケール",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "sukēru"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Japanese: スケール (sukēru)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Japanese: スケール (sukēru)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "scale"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English scale",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "skál",
        "4": "",
        "5": "bowl"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse skál (“bowl”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*skēlō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *skēlō",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "skål",
        "3": "",
        "4": "bowl, cup"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish skål (“bowl, cup”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "schaal"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch schaal",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Schale"
      },
      "expansion": "Schale",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "scāla"
      },
      "expansion": "scāla",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "scealu",
        "3": "",
        "4": "cup"
      },
      "expansion": "scealu (“cup”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English scale, from Old Norse skál (“bowl”) from Proto-Germanic *skēlō. Compare Danish skål (“bowl, cup”), Dutch schaal, German Schale, Old High German scāla, Old English scealu (“cup”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scales",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scale (plural scales)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sc‧ale"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A device to measure mass or weight."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "device",
          "device"
        ],
        [
          "measure",
          "measure"
        ],
        [
          "mass",
          "mass"
        ],
        [
          "weight",
          "weight"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pan",
          "pan"
        ],
        [
          "tray",
          "tray"
        ],
        [
          "dish",
          "dish"
        ],
        [
          "balance",
          "balance"
        ],
        [
          "scales",
          "scales"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/skeɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[skeɪ̯(ə)ɫ]",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/skæɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[skæɪ̯(ə)ɫ]",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-scale.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8e/En-us-scale.ogg/En-us-scale.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/En-us-scale.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-scale.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/En-au-scale.ogg/En-au-scale.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/En-au-scale.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "nžar",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "word": "նժար"
    },
    {
      "code": "xcl",
      "lang": "Old Armenian",
      "roman": "tʿatʿ",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "word": "թաթ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bljudo na vezna",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "word": "блюдо на везна"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "weegschaal"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "word": "vaakakuppi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "english": "d'une balance",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plateau"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Waagschale"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "plástinx",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "πλάστιγξ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hakari",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "word": "秤"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tenbin",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "word": "天秤"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "tʰaah cʊəɲciiŋ",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "word": "ថាសជញ្ជីង"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "szala"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prato"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "čáša vesóv",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ча́ша весо́в"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тас"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tas"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "platillo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "dish of a balance",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "vågskål"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scale"
}

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