| anglais > français | |
| scale | |
| 1. n. Balance. | |
| According to the scale, he weighed 70 kilograms. | |
| Selon la balance, il pesait 70 kilogrammes. | |
| 2. n. Échelle. | |
| The map is on a scale of 100,000 to 1. | |
| La carte est à l'échelle 100 000 pour 1. | |
| 3. n. Grandeur. | |
| The pyramids were built on a larger scale than any previous man-made buildings. | |
| Les pyramides furent construites à une dimension supérieure à celle de n'importe quel bâtiment fait par l'Homme auparavant. | |
| 4. n. Écaille. | |
| He had to first remove the fish scales. | |
| Il devait d'abord enlever les écailles du poisson. | |
| Part of his skin was covered in scale. | |
| Une partie de sa peau était couverte d'écailles. | |
| 5. n. Gamme. | |
| She warmed up before practice by singing (musical) scales. | |
| Elle s'échauffa avant la répétition en chantant des gammes. | |
| 6. v. Écailler. | |
| Who is going to scale these fish? | |
| Qui va écailler ces poissons ? | |
| 7. v. Escalader. | |
| He scaled the wall and kept running. | |
| Il escalada le mur et continua à courir. | |
| 8. v. Agrandir, élargir (scale up). | |
| This is okay so far, but we're going to need to scale up. | |
| Tout va bien pour le moment, mais nous allons devoir agrandir. | |
| 9. v. Réduire (scale down). | |
| This would overwhelm them. We need to scale it down. | |
| Cela les submergerait. Nous devons le réduire. | |
| 10. v. (Géométrie) Échelonner, rééchelonner, redimensionner. | |
| 11. v. (Intransitif) Varier selon une certaine échelle. | |
| The tax scales according to your revenue. | |
| Le montant de l'impôt varie selon le revenu. | |
| anglais > anglais | |
| scale | |
| 1. n. (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. |  |
| 2. n. An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude. |  |
| Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10. |  |
| The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale. |  |
| 3. n. Size; scope. |  |
| The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale. |  |
| There are some who question the scale of our ambitions. |  |
| 4. n. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance. |  |
| This map uses a scale of 1:10. |  |
| 5. n. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced |  |
| 6. n. (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies. |  |
| 7. n. A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix. |  |
| the decimal scale; the binary scale |  |
| 8. n. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order. |  |
| 9. n. A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union. |  |
| Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale. |  |
| 10. v. 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. |  |
| 11. v. To climb to the top of. |  |
| Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest. |  |
| 12. v. (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors. |  |
| That architecture won't scale to real-world environments. |  |
| 13. v. To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system. |  |
| 14. n. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile. |  |
| 15. n. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color. |  |
| 16. n. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis. |  |
| 17. n. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds. |  |
| 18. n. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal. |  |
| 19. n. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail). |  |
| 20. n. Limescale. |  |
| 21. n. A scale insect. |  |
| 22. n. The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. |  |
| 23. v. To remove the scales of. |  |
| Please scale that fish for dinner. |  |
| 24. v. (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales. |  |
| The dry weather is making my skin scale. |  |
| 25. v. To strip or clear of scale; to descale. |  |
| to scale the inside of a boiler |  |
| 26. v. To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface. |  |
| 27. v. (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae. |  |
| Some sandstone scales by exposure. |  |
| 28. v. (Scotland) To scatter; to spread. |  |
| 29. v. To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder. |  |
| 30. n. A device to measure mass or weight. |  |
| After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale. |  |
| 31. n. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales. |  |
| français > anglais | |
| écaille | |
| 1. n-f. scale (of fish, reptile etc.) |  |
| 2. n-f. shell (of tortoise, oyster) |  |
| 3. n-f. tortoiseshell (manufacturing material) |  |