Meaning and origin of the word scale

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Definition of scale:

part of speech: noun

One of the small, thin plates on a fish or reptile: a thin layer.
part of speech: noun

Scaliness.
part of speech: verb

To mount, as by a ladder: to ascend.
part of speech: noun

The dish of a balance: a balance- chiefly in pl.:- pl. Libra, one of the signs of the zodiac.
part of speech: verb

To take off in thin pieces or layers; to pare the surface from; to peel off in scales.
part of speech: verb

To ascend or climb a rocky precipice, as by a ladder.
part of speech: noun

A ladder: series of steps: a graduated measure: ( music) a series of all the tones: the order of a numeral system: gradation: proportion: series.
part of speech: verb

To come off in thin layers.
part of speech: noun

A series of steps; anything marked in parts at equal distances; an instrument graduated or divided into parts, used for mathematical and philosophical purposes; a natural series of musical sounds; the natural order of progression on which any system of notation is based.
part of speech: noun

The dish of a balance; one of the thin plates that form the covering of many fish; a thin piece that can be separated; a lamina.
part of speech: verb

To clear of scales: to peel off in thin layers.

Common misspellings:

sclae (26.8%)
escale (4.9%)
schale (4.9%)
scal (19.5%)
scaple (2.4%)
sacle (12.2%)
scaley (4.9%)
scall (9.8%)
scail (4.9%)
acale (4.9%)
scae (4.9%)

There, too, the drama of destruction was acting, though on a smaller scale "Monsieur Violet" – Frederick Marryat
Get the whole thing drawn to a definite scale then we can see. "Wanderers" – Knut Hamsun
But when spring came Lilian prepared to open up her summer campaign on a much larger scale "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901" – Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lithotomy