Examples
“I asked, holding my nose while talking to Tom who was covered in scales, gray and and gleaming.”
“The requirement for dropping the scales from the eyes is humility.”
“Such dwarf novas will not destroy either star, and may occur irregularly on time scales from a few days to tens of years.”
“So much so that hopping on the scales is probably not a good idea at certain times of the month.”
“Using fissionable material on large scales is crude and inefficient.”
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“I don't know if they are cannibals or not as my knowledge of things with scales is limited to episodes of Primeval.”
“Under all those scales is a Turing collar just like every other robot in these kinds of places.”
“The understanding of temporal hierarchy and the formation of dynamic aggregates on different time scales is foundational to the study of network dynamics and has relevance in multiple areas ranging from bacterial strain design and metabolic engineering to the understanding of disease processes in humans.”
“For some people this may be frustrating, as if seeing the author's finger on the scales is cheating.”
“If the gain scales linearly with the number of people, then the gain from tipping the election times the probability of doing do will grow as the square root of the population size.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scales’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Cellophane and other household instru...
Well, inspired by the word 'cellophane', there must be basis for a list containing words for other arcane instruments found in the household
saxophone, clarinet, champagne flute, frying panpipes, drinking double horn, can can opener, singing bowl, milkshaker, glass harmonica, kazoorole, kettledrums, timpanino and 19 more...
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tranquill's Words
loquacious, unmitigated, trundle, ephemeral, vociferous, trapezoidal, liminal, obsequious, veracity, squash, onomatopoeia, oscillate and 267 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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punnything's Words
existentialist, configure, numismatist, autumnal, desist, ennui, taciturn, vacillate, naivete, bloodletting, tete-a-tete, concentric and 274 more...
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Found In Pairs
objects that are often, or at least can be, referred to in pairs
scissors, steps, compasses, shoes, socks, glasses, binoculars, scales, gloves, earrings, cufflinks, panties and 35 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for scales.
bilby
Weigh me, high wind!
What will your wild scales record?
Profit of pain,
Joy by the weight of a word.
- Leonora Speyer, 'Measure Me, Sky'. Nov 1, 2008