English-Danish translations for scale

• skala
  Et afskrækkende eksempel i mindre skala er Påskeøerne. A cautionary example on a small scale is the Easter Islands.
  Den kan resultere i sult og elendighed i stor skala. It is capable of producing hunger and misery on a massive scale.
  Også her sker der en indvandring i stor skala. There is large-scale immigration there, too.
• målestok
  At det mislykkes efter en storslået, strategisk målestok. Failure on a grand, strategic scale.
  Vist var der tale om en konflikt i mindre målestok. Of course it was only a small-scale conflict.
  I mindre målestok kalder vi det for piratkopiering. On a smaller scale, this is what we call piracy.
• skæl
• størrelsesforhold
  Når man taler om tørv, er det godt at minde om størrelsesforhold. When we speak of peat it is worth reminding ourselves of scale.
  Dette er således det økonomiske størrelsesforhold for en sektor, der er i fremgang, men som Europa og institutionerne endnu ikke lader til at tillægge den betydning, den fortjener. That, then, is the economic scale of a sector which is progressing, growing, increasing, and to which Europe's institutions still seem not to give proper consideration.

Definition of scale

• A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending
• Size; scope
• The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance
• A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced
• A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies
• Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order
• A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union
• 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
• To climb to the top of
• To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors
• To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system
• 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
• A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color
• 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
• Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail
• A scale insect
• To remove the scales of
• To become scaly; to produce or develop scales
• To strip or clear of scale; to descale
• To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface
• To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae
• To scatter; to spread
• A device to measure mass or weight
• Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales

Examples

• Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
• The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.
• The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale.
• There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.
• This map uses a scale of 1:10.
• the decimal scale; the binary scale
• Sally wasnt the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.
• We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
• Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
• That architecture wont scale to real-world environments.
• Please scale that fish for dinner.
• The dry weather is making my skin scale.
• to scale the inside of a boiler
• Some sandstone scales by exposure.
• After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.

Related words

• cartographic
• ratio
• octave
• interval