Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having scales, as a fish or reptile; scaly; squamate.
- Having scutella, as a bird's tarsus; scutellate. See cuts under Goura and Guttera.
- Having color-markings which resemble scales or produce a scaly appearance: as, a scaled dove or quail. See cuts under Scardafella and Callipepla.
- In entomology, covered with minute scales, as the wings of butterflies and moths, the bodies of many weevils, etc. See cut under scale, n.
- In heraldry, imbricated; covered with an imbricated pattern. See escalloped.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of scale.
- adj. zoology Covered with scales or scale-like structures.
- adj. Without scales, or with the scales removed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc.
- adj. Without scales, or with the scales removed.
- adj. (Zoöl.) Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles
- adj. (used of armor) having overlapping metal plates attached to a leather backing
Examples
“But when you hear about numbers and the Barack Obama numbers, the term scaled back is relative.”
“Current statistical data has again scaled down 2003 growth estimates.”
Economists as Heretics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“They are being demolished from within by writers such as China Miéville and Jon Courtney Grimwood, and scaled from the outside by the likes of Michael Chabon and Lev Grossman.”
“If this scheme can work in scaled-up versions, it may well protect vulnerable coastlines, entire islands and offshore oil platforms from destructive tsunamis.”
“He had read widely and variously in Darwin, Spencer, Mill, Muller, and Taine; he had, in short, scaled the "lofty mountains" that had so hemmed in his early view, and made his way into the intellectual kingdoms of the modern world that lay beyond.”
“Taine; he had, in short, scaled the "lofty mountains" that had so hemmed in his early view, and made his way into the intellectual kingdoms of the modern world that lay beyond.”
“Kiddie care," she called the scaled-down plan, derisively, in private.”
“The test itself was to be based on the SAT, but the Selective Service wanted it to be scored -- or, in testing language, "scaled" -- in such a way that the results could be compared with those of the Army General Classification”
“I’ve used a number of productivity aids/tools though the years and along with technology progression I’ve scaled from a plain calendar, to a Day Planner, through a couple different smaller PDA’s, to my current Palm Tungsten C.”
“Nuvision Action Images Mr. Call scaled a wall during a competition.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scaled’.
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bianca's list of non-euphonious words
crepuscular, crapulence, fricative, feculant, cacophony, sarcophagus, affricate, dischordant, fricasse, discalced, frumpy, skeletal and 1 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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