Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "scale" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

assay office bathroom butcher shop cabinet chemists lab deli doctor doctor's office fish lab music store post office

Coordinate Terms

cartographic ratio dominant extent focus grain leading note mediant octave interval range resolution size subdominant submediant supertonic support tonic

Derived Terms

Gunter's scale Internet-scale Raglan's scale San Jose scale altered scale antiscalant antiscale at scale autoscale bigscale blitzscale broadscale citricola scale cotton scale counterscale diseconomies of scale downscale economies of scale eigenscale enscale exascale femtoscale fieldscale full-scale gigascale global-scale gray-scale grayscale greyscale gyroscale hairscale hammerscale hyperscale industrial scale interscale iron scale lac scale large-scale largescale lateral scale leaf-scale logscale long scale macroscale medium-scale mesoscale microscale midscale mill scale milliscale miniscale multiscale nanoscale off the scale overscale overscaling paraffin scale payscale pearlscale petascale picoscale platform scale playscale prescale rescale returns to scale room-scale salary scale sample scale scalability scalable scalation scale armor scale bar scale bark scale cube scale degree scale height scale invariance scale leaf scale model scale modeler scale off scale ruler scale tree scaleback scalebeam scaleboard scalebound scaledrake scalefish scalefree scaleful scalelength scaleless scalelet scalelike scaleman scalepan scaleproof scaleproof scaler scaler scales fall from someone's eyes scaleseed scaletail scaleup scaleweed scalewise scalework scalic scalicide scalie scalimetry scalogram small-scale soft scale subscale superscale suspension scale terascale thumb on the scale time scale timescale tip the scale to scale torsion scale turn the scale typescale ultra large scale integration unscale upscale very large scale integration wafer-scale integration waferscale webscale wide-scale widescale

Etymologically Related To

shale shell

Context

computing dialect music scotland uk

Has Property

helpful in making comparisons

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

arrive at ascend attain bit chip climb climb up cover covering criterion flake fleck foliage gain go up hit indicator leaf leafage magnitude relation make measure measure measuring device measuring instrument measuring system model mount musical notation natural covering pattern proportion pull quantify quantitative relation reach remove scrap shield size standard take take away take off touchstone withdraw

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Antoniadi scale Arabic scale Bark scale Baumé scale Beaufort scale Beck Hopelessness Scale Beck's scale Bortle scale Bristol stool scale Byzantine Music scale Byzantine scale Celsius scale Delisle scale Enhanced Fujita scale F-scale Fahrenheit scale Fitzpatrick scale Fujita scale Fujita-Pearson scale Garn scale HO scale Hamilton-Norwood scale Holmes-Rahe scale Indian wax scale Istrian scale Kardashev scale Kelvin scale Kinsey scale Likert scale Ludwig scale Mercalli scale Mohs scale Mohs' scale N scale Newton scale Norwood scale Palermo scale Pauling scale Persian scale Phrygian dominant scale Planck scale Pomeroy scale Prader scale Quigley scale Rankin scale Rankine scale Ravel scale Richter scale Rockwell scale Réaumur scale Rømer scale Saffir-Simpson scale Scoville scale Shepard scale Tanner scale Torino scale Wentworth scale absolute scale blue scale blues scale brown soft scale bugle scale check scale chromatic scale communicable scale cosmological scale diagonal scale diatonic scale diminished scale dodecuple scale dynamic scale engineer's scale ensign scale felt scale gapped scale hair scale length scale major scale medium scale integration megascale minor scale modal scale moment magnitude scale musical scale not-to-scale octatonic scale ordinal scale pay scale pentatonic scale pernicious scale ratio scale reducing scale scale back scale down scale out scale up scale-down scale-up short scale sliding scale timescale to-scale tone scale wage scale whole-tone scale wind scale

Type Of (IsA)

bit covering extruded body part homogeneous structure indicator instrument leaf machine magnitude relation measures weight measuring instrument musical notation plant pest proportion solid object standard

Manner Of

climb measure model quantify reach remove size take

Receives Action

used most often to weight items

Related Terms

degree ordinal variable scaling ladder

Related Terms

ascend balance bar base bathroom bathroom floor bathroom weighing bathrooms butterfly centimetres chain mail chains chitin climb coat color counter covering degree dermatitis descale device dimension dish distance drawing drugstores enlargement equipment fish fish covering fish skin flake flaky flare flat floor for measuring for weighing for weight for weighting grade graduations hard in bathroom instrument justice keratin key kitchen ladder layers levels limescale line machine magnified magnitude map map key map projection maps markings mass mathematical mature means measure measure weight measurement measurement device measurement equipment measurement method measurement tool measurement weight measures measures weight measuring measuring device measuring instrument measuring stuff measuring tool measuring weight metal method model moth musical musical progression not to scale note numbers numerical object octave on fish on maps on snakes ordered ordinal variable original overlapping pan pigmented pine nut pinecone plates platform pocketknife pound pound counter pounds progression proportion protective pseudo octave radix ratio reduced reduction remove reptile ruler scale insect scale mail scales scaling ladder scaly scatter scope sequence series shiny size size measurement skin slough small snakes spread stand stand on stationary step step on stuff system taker taking taking weight throughput tips tool tray tritave used used weigh weigh weigh instrument weigh on weigh you weighed weighed on weighing weighing device weighing instrument weighing machine weighing things weighing tool weighs weighs pounds weight weight balance weight counter weight device weight instrument weight machine weight measure weight measurement weight measuring weight system weight taker weighting weights wing with numbers

Synonym Network

plate

Used For

balancing converting map distances to actual distances determining weight fish helping loose weight learning music measure measure someones weight measure things measure weight measure weight of object measuring weight mesure things protecting body of animal protection of lizards body ranking showing notes of music singers who want to warm up weigh food weigh objects weigh people or things weigh yourself weighing weighing items weighing objects weighing people weighing purchases weighing things weighing trucks

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.