English-Estonian translations for scale

• mõõtmestama
• soomus
  Nad vajuvad merepõhja, nende soomused ja kondid kuhjuvad ning meri muutub seeläbi kuidagi kentsakaks ja kummaliseks - nii kirjutab üks Ühendkuningriigi poeet. They sink - the scales and the bones are clogging the sea beds, suffering - as the UK's national poet puts it - a sea change into something rich and strange.

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