English-Spanish translations for scale

• escala
  Se necesitan actuaciones a escala mundial. We need action on a global scale.
  La escala de la ayuda es importante. The scale of the aid is important.
  Existe una exclusión social a gran escala. There is large-scale social exclusion.
• escalar
• escama
  Esos peces se hunden y las escamas y las espinas cubren los lechos marinos, experimentando, como dice el poeta nacional del Reino Unido, un cambio marino que se convierte en algo rico y extraño. 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.
• escamar
• gama
  Esto creará oportunidades, no solamente para los consumidores, sino también para nuestras PYME, que, a partir de ahora, tendrán más fácil beneficiarse de la gama de ventajas del mercado interior. This will create opportunities, not only for consumers, but also for our SMEs, which will, from now on, find it easier to benefit from the scale advantages of the internal market.
• platillo
  No existen balanzas que pongan la salud de los niños en un platillo y los intereses económicos en otro. There are no scales for weighing the health of children against financial interests.
  Debe poner todo su peso en el platillo de la balanza para que se produzca con éxito tal reforma. It must throw its full weight into the scales to ensure that such a reform is successfully carried through.

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