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Scales

//skeɪlz// name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

    "Both Bobba and Coristine are listed in internal OPM records reviewed by WIRED as “experts” at OPM, reporting directly to Amanda Scales, its new chief of staff. Scales previously worked on talent for xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, and as part of Uber’s talent acquisition team, per LinkedIn."

  2. 2
    The constellation and zodiacal sign Libra.

    "The scales should be uneven, the northern exalted, the southern depressed."

  3. 3
    An unincorporated community in Sierra County, California, United States.
  4. 4
    A small village in Aldingham parish, Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD2772).
  5. 5
    A hamlet in Kirkoswald parish, Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5743).
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  1. 6
    A hamlet in Threlkeld parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY3426).
Noun
  1. 1
    plural of scale form-of, plural
  2. 2
    A device for measuring weight. plural, plural-only

    "The butcher put the sausages on the scales."

Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of scale form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old Norse skáli (“shed, hut”). Doublet of Scholes.

Etymology 2

Plural of scale.

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