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Another word for scale

Verb

  1. To remove the skin of

    2. See also:

    put-on

  2. To move upward on or along

    3. See also:

    rise

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Idioms:

    on a large scale

    2. on a small scale

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • A geological map of the whole continent, on the scale of 50 m.

  • Life existed at a scale smaller than the eye could see.

  • Besides, the bathroom scale had reported a two-pound drop that morning.

  • By such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last.

  • Like a TV star that doesn't scale back his expenses after his show is cancelled, these benefits expand, not contract, during periods of economic decline, for two main reasons.

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