Sheweighsherself everyweekon the scales in thebathroom.
Step on the scales.
Areyourscalesaccurate?
Her lastbabytippedthe scales at tenpounds.
According toyourscales I'mhalfastonelighter.
a pair of scalesmainlyUK
aweighingdevicewith twocontainersconnectedto ametalbarthat isfreetomoveup and down aboutitsfixedcentralpoint. Anobjectofknownweightis put in onecontainerand the thing to beweighedis put in the other.
一架天平
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Measuring, weighing, & counting devices
-scopic
detector
dial
dipstick
fitness tracker
gage
gamma counter
gamma meter
gauge
gradation
hydrograph
indicator
manometer
micrometer
probe
smart meter
straight edge
tracker
voltmeter
weather balloon
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scalenoun(MUSIC)
[C]
a set ofnotesplayedorsunginorder, going up or down:
音阶
the scale of GmajorG大调音阶
You shouldpractiseyourscales everyday.你得每天练习音阶。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Notes of the musical scale
A, a
B, b
bass
C, c
D, d
doh
flat
half step
high doh
la
lah
major
mi
middle C
re
register
semitone
soh
sol
sol-fa
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scalenoun(SKIN)
[Cusually plural]
one of the many verysmall,flatpiecesthatcovertheskinoffish,snakes, etc.
（鱼、蛇等动物皮肤表层的）鳞，鳞片
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The skin, hair & bone of non-human animals
astrakhan
baleen
bristly
bushy
coated
dander
eiderdown
fleece
fur
furry
hackles
horsehair
lambswool
mane
mother-of-pearl
sable
seashell
sheepskin
spine
wishbone
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scalenoun(COVERING)
[U](UKalsolimescale)
a hard,whiteorgreylayerofmaterialthatformson the inside ofpipesorcontainersthatheatwater
（水管或容器内壁的）水垢
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Coverings and layers
a blanket ofsomethingidiom
beeswax wrap
blanket
brazen
casing
diaphragm
interstratification
interstratify
lagging
layer
layered
seam
sheath
strata
stratum
substratum
superstratum
tar paper
varnish
vein
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Idioms
large/small-scale
off the scale
the scales fall fromsomeone'seyes
scale
verb[T]
uk/skeɪl/us/skeɪl/
scaleverb[T](CLIMB)
toclimbup asteepsurface, such as awallor thesideof amountain, often usingspecialequipment:
爬越；攀登
Theprisonerscaled the highprisonwallandranoff.囚犯攀越监狱的高墙逃跑了。
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to move onto or towards the top of something
climbIt was an effort to climb the stairs.
ascendShe ascended the podium and began to speak.
scaleHe claims to have scaled every peak of the Himalayas.
mountThe cowboy mounted his horse and rode off into the sunset.
Scalemodels were the preferred method because they allowed not only a quantitative analysis, but also the qualitative aspects to be represented.
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All photographs used colour film at ascaleof 1:25 000 apart from 1964 which were black and white and at 1:16 000.
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The study area was delimited on aerial photographs (scale1:50 000).
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Here we study color scaling using photographs of natural fruit objects.
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In the first sector, labour produces a manufactured good with constant returns toscale.
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The second sector comprises resource harvesting, which is undertaken with constant returns toscaleto labour and to the resource stock.
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We assume that there are constant returns toscalein agriculture.
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The following two examples outline cases where the gross pollution function does not exhibit constant returns toscale.
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Improving the readability of time frequency and timescalerepresentations by the reassignment method.
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Thescalebar represents the estimated number of nucleotide substitutions per nucleotide site.
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However, co-occurrence patterns on burned sites were random, indicating absence of competition at fine spatial scales due to differential habitat use within the burned landscape.
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The paradox is that welfare reform reduces thescaleof government in one sense but expands it in another.
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Our minimalist design tradition removes the intermediate and smaller scales from built form.
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Some demonstrated the use of technical language, for example 'it did sound very like ascale'.
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Changes towards timber production forestry will influence the structure of invertebrate communities, although thescaleat which this occurs will determine its effect.
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Collocationswithscale
scale
These are words often used in combination withscale.
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atomic scale
Moreover, if fully developed turbulence is reached, mixing occurs down to the atomic scale, and the effective gas density is reduced, hence reducing the fusion rate.
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colossal scale
I hope, also, that he will tell us that we are going out for a scheme on a colossal scale.
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continental scale
This can be carried out at a continental scale using suction traps which still provide the most accurate estimates for predicting aphid spray thresholds.
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