as in balance
a device for measuring weight
I hate getting on the bathroom scale
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Relevance
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as in hierarchy
a scheme of rank or order
a student who scored very highly on a standard intelligence scale
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as in to measure
to find out the size, extent, or amount of
scaled the logs to get a rough idea of the amount of usable lumber they were likely to yield
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Recent Examples of scale
Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026
Minecraft World will allow friends and families to play, explore and craft together on a truly epic scale.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2026
Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
The ethics got scaled down as the valuation scaled up?
—Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Arkansas is the rightful favorite on a massive scale.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026
Minecraft World will allow friends and families to play, explore and craft together on a truly epic scale.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2026
Verb
Not scaled it back — but shut it down completely.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
The ethics got scaled down as the valuation scaled up?
—Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scale
Verb
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Bill Cooke, who leads NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office, told NBC News at the time that the fireball and sonic booms were likely caused by a small, 7-ton asteroid measuring around 6 feet across.—
Jesse Kirsch,
NBC news,
22 Mar. 2026
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The telescope will be used to observe the radio sky at frequencies below 50 MHz and will measure the low-frequency foreground of the universe.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 Mar. 2026
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The extent of Superhuman’s legal exposure for this program is hard to gauge.—
Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2026
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At present, the model can correctly gauge that risk 60 percent of the time, Griffin says.—
Jyoti Madhusoodanan,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Scale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scale. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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