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
Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Horror of this scale has the effect of deadening words, making stories of the most unimaginable violence land with a dull thud.
—Jack Sheehan
september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Richard Nieva, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, several cultural events around the country have been canceled or scaled back because of concerns over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Involving volunteers in the tagging process helps to raise awareness on the decline in monarch populations, helps track the butterflies on a larger scale and introduces the community to conservation, Vargo said.
—Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Horror of this scale has the effect of deadening words, making stories of the most unimaginable violence land with a dull thud.
—Jack Sheehan
september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
Jain said his main goal is to scale all of Mercor’s systems.
—Richard Nieva, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, several cultural events around the country have been canceled or scaled back because of concerns over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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Verb
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After the mysterious deaths of the two diamondback rattlesnakes, Cardwell dug up temperature data from a 20-year-old study in the Mojave Desert to help develop a mathematical model for measuring what might be happening inside the desert burrows.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Trades finalize in three to five seconds, enabling near-instant payment finality, and transaction fees are measured in fractions of a cent.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The quickest way to gauge a workplace is to pay attention to how questions are received.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Many prominent Democrats are expected to run in the 2028 presidential election, and polls will continue to gauge Americans' views on the potential candidates.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Scale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scale. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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