Scale

Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.

The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.

There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.

We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.

This map uses a scale of 1:10.

Even though precision can be carried to an extreme, the scales which now are drawn in (and usually connected to an appropriate figure by an arrow) will allow derivation of meaningful measurements.

the decimal scale, the binary scale

There is a certain scale of duties […] which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion.

City's players and supporters travelled from one end of the emotional scale to the other in those vital seconds, providing a truly remarkable piece of football theatre and the most dramatic conclusion to a season in Premier League history.

Sally wasn't 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.

At last I came to the great barrier-cliffs; and after three days of mad effort—of maniacal effort—I scaled them. I built crude ladders; I wedged sticks in narrow fissures; I chopped toe-holds and finger-holds with my long knife; but at last I scaled them. Near the summit I came upon a huge cavern.

A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it.

The dead leap at the throat, destroy The meaning of the day; dark forms Have scaled your walls, and spies betray Old secrets to amorphous swarms.

That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.

Scaling his present bearing with his past.

The kitchen-dining-buffet car scales 49.2 tons.

Every single print that goes out our door has a warning in its title block telling the world, "Do not scale this drawing."

Fish that, with their fins and shining scales, / Glide under the green wave.

Please scale that fish for dinner.

The dry weather is making my skin scale.

to scale the inside of a boiler

1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth if all the mountains and hills were scaled, and the earth made even

Some sandstone scales by exposure.

Those that cast their shell are the lobster and crab; the old skins are found, but the old shells never; so it is likely that they scale off.

cannons […]caused to be scaled and loaded

After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.