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
Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 13 Apr. 2026
Senior figures within the film community in Hungary gave two thumbs up to Péter Magyar’s landslide victory Monday, although the scale of reforms needed within the media and entertainment sector are daunting.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Apr. 2026
ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
Companies are trying to scale up.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
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Noun
In one enterprise deployment at a Fortune 500 company, the platform helped unlock approximately $685 million* in inventory value — highlighting the scale of opportunity when decisions are made in real time.
—Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 13 Apr. 2026
Senior figures within the film community in Hungary gave two thumbs up to Péter Magyar’s landslide victory Monday, although the scale of reforms needed within the media and entertainment sector are daunting.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Apr. 2026
Verb
Whittaker's 1963 ascent to the summit of Mount Everest came 10 years after Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay first scaled the peak.
—ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
Companies are trying to scale up.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scale
Verb
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Who in Delft, however, outside the Remonstrant clan, would know that your soul could be measured like a gold coin, or, for that matter, hung from your ear?—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Leo is measured, deliberate and soft-spoken.—
Norah O'Donnell,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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Although birth rate is commonly used as a catch-all term, the key metric used to gauge how populations grow or shrink is the total fertility rate (TFR), which estimates the average number of children a woman is likely to have throughout her reproductive years (see fertility rates).—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
6 Apr. 2026
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Going beyond the basics of a typical smart scale, the MorphoScan breaks down segmental muscle and fat for each arm, each leg, and your torso, similar to a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan, which is essentially a medical imagery test to gauge these same attributes.—
Andrew Gebhart,
PC Magazine,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Scale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scale. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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