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Meanings of scale in English

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A tool to measure the weight of something.

        Catalan
        escala
        Spanish
        escala

        An ordered reference standard.

              escala
              Russian
              гамма
              Portuguese
              gamut
              Spanish
              escala musical
              Catalan
              escales musicals

              Set of musical notes ordered by pitch.

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                    Portuguese
                    exfoliação

                    A thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin.

                          exfoliação
                          Usage of scale in English
                          1
                          Polish authorities, however, said the risk of large scale flooding had receded.
                          The Irish Times
                          2
                          Already, this week has seen BP scale back its North Sea operation.
                          The Guardian
                          3
                          Financial problems forced it to scale back its route network last year.
                          Reuters
                          4
                          Recent government tenders for large-scale PV solar farms have given him hope.
                          The Guardian
                          5
                          Media reports are bound to underestimate the true scale of protest, however.
                          The South African
                          6
                          The deal, he said, is about expanding scale and increasing market share.
                          Reuters
                          7
                          The UN says industrial-scale insect farming could ensure future global food security.
                          BBC
                          8
                          Local authorities and central government must build houses on a large scale.
                          The Guardian
                          9
                          That proved impossible given the sheer scale of the private residential market.
                          The Irish Times
                          10
                          The challenge facing health and social care services is reaching that scale.
                          The Guardian
                          11
                          This is the second large-scale caravan of Central American migrants this year.
                          BBC
                          12
                          Medium-scale farmers bring new sources of capital and know-how to African agriculture.
                          The South African
                          13
                          The proposed approach demonstrates great potential for large-scale bacterial cell growth analysis.
                          Pubmed
                          14
                          But we also need the political will to create change at scale.
                          The Guardian
                          15
                          She fixes problems: not run-of-the-mill ones, but problems on a colossal scale.
                          The Guardian
                          16
                          Yet the scale of the climate crisis calls for a system overhaul.
                          The Guardian
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