See scale on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "scale",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "scales",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": "sc‧ale",
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "It's hard to understand the scale of the change."
}
],
"glosses": [
"The scale of something is its size or level."
],
"id": "simple-scale-en-noun-auz9EUg8",
"raw_tags": [
"countable & uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "She stood on the scale and found out she weighed 150 pounds."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A scale is a small machine for measuring (finding out) how much something weighs (how heavy the thing is.)"
],
"id": "simple-scale-en-noun-SKcd88A0",
"raw_tags": [
"countable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Music",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A series of eight notes."
],
"id": "simple-scale-en-noun-4ytvzqqT",
"raw_tags": [
"countable",
"music"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/skeɪl/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/skæɪl/",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-scale.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-au-scale.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
}
],
"word": "scale"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "scale",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "scales",
"tags": [
"third-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "scaled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "scaled",
"tags": [
"past",
"participle"
]
},
{
"form": "scaling",
"tags": [
"present",
"participle"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "scal",
"2": "e"
},
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": "sc‧ale",
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"If you scale something, then you climb up it."
],
"id": "simple-scale-en-verb--M1hA5la"
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/skeɪl/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/skæɪl/",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-scale.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-au-scale.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
}
],
"word": "scale"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "scale",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "scales",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": "sc‧ale",
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Countable nouns",
"Uncountable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "It's hard to understand the scale of the change."
}
],
"glosses": [
"The scale of something is its size or level."
],
"raw_tags": [
"countable & uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Countable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "She stood on the scale and found out she weighed 150 pounds."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A scale is a small machine for measuring (finding out) how much something weighs (how heavy the thing is.)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"countable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Countable nouns",
"Music"
],
"glosses": [
"A series of eight notes."
],
"raw_tags": [
"countable",
"music"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/skeɪl/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/skæɪl/",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-scale.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-au-scale.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
}
],
"word": "scale"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "scale",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "scales",
"tags": [
"third-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "scaled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "scaled",
"tags": [
"past",
"participle"
]
},
{
"form": "scaling",
"tags": [
"present",
"participle"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "scal",
"2": "e"
},
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": "sc‧ale",
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"If you scale something, then you climb up it."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/skeɪl/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/skæɪl/",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-scale.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-au-scale.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
}
],
"word": "scale"
}
Download raw JSONL data for scale meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2024-12-20 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.