scale in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for scale in the English»Spanish Dictionary

I.scale1 [Am skeɪl, Brit skeɪl] N

II.scale1 [Am skeɪl, Brit skeɪl] VB trans

scale2 [Am skeɪl, Brit skeɪl] N

I.scale3 [Am skeɪl, Brit skeɪl] N

II.scale3 [Am skeɪl, Brit skeɪl] VB trans (climb)

scale down VB [Am skeɪl -, Brit skeɪl -] (v + o + adv, v + adv + o)

scale back VB [Am skeɪl -, Brit skeɪl -] (v + adv + o)

scale up VB [Am skeɪl -, Brit skeɪl -] (v + o + adv, v + adv + o)

sliding scale [Am ˌslaɪdɪŋ ˈskeɪl, Brit] N

full-scale [Am ˈfʊl ˈˌskeɪl, Brit ˌfʊlˈskeɪl] ADJ

large-scale [Am ˈlɑrdʒ ˈˌskeɪl, Brit ˈlɑːdʒskeɪl] ADJ attr

scale in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for scale in the English»Spanish Dictionary

I.scale3 [skeɪl] N (range, magnitude, proportion)

large-scale [ˌlɑ:dʒˈskeɪl, Am ˌlɑ:rdʒ-] ADJ

scale Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

scale of charges
a sliding scale ECON
on a large/small scale
to scale the heights (of sth)
on a grand scale
to scale (new) heights fig
a map with a 1:100, 000 scale
to be on a large scale
to buy and sell (on a small scale)
American English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
The analysis of the data from the tests should be rationalised and consequently scale-up of equipment is implemented.
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The sulfate scale from an oil well can be very radium rich.
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There are very few negotiable items with rookie contracts anymore because of the collective bargained wage scale.
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The firm puts on large-scale promotional giveaways for their eyeglasses, as many as 10,000 pairs each round.
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They promote family-scale farming, direct trade, stable pricing, empowerment and transparency, achieved through education and assistance.
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During the race to develop an oral polio vaccine several large scale human trials were undertaken.
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It requires everyone to buy insurance and subsidizes insurance costs for lower income people on a sliding scale.
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The point is that large-scale motions in the ocean interacted with other scales by the nonlinearities in primitive equation.
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As more grades of general officer were added, the pay scale was adjusted.
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The number of possible modes for any intervallic set is dictated by the pattern of intervals in the scale.
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