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scaled Meaning & Definition

/skeɪld/

What Does Scaled Mean?

As a verb, scaled means simple past and past participle of scale. As an adjective, it means Covered with scales or scale-like structures.

Scaled in Brief

Part of speechverb, adjective
Pronunciation/skeɪld/
Synonymsscaly, armored and armoured

Scaled Definition (Verb)

  1. simple past and past participle of scale

Scaled as an Adjective

  1. Covered with scales or scale-like structures.
  2. Without scales, or with the scales removed.

    scaled herring

Verb

  1. To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.

    We should scale that up by a factor of 10.

  2. To climb to the top of.

    Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.

  3. To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.

    That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.

  4. To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.

Verb

  1. To remove the scales of.

    Please scale that fish for dinner.

  2. To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.

    The dry weather is making my skin scale.

  3. To strip or clear of scale; to descale.

    to scale the inside of a boiler

  4. To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
  5. To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.

    Some sandstone scales by exposure.

  6. To scatter; to spread.
  7. To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

Synonyms of Scaled

Scaled synonyms and antonyms →

Scaled in a Sentence

scaled herring

We should scale that up by a factor of 10.

Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.

That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.

Please scale that fish for dinner.

The dry weather is making my skin scale.

to scale the inside of a boiler

Some sandstone scales by exposure.

Word Forms & Grammar

scaled

scaled (not comparable)

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