2012 January, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, page 23:
We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale.
There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.
A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page ix:
Even though precision can be carried to an extreme, the scales which now are drawn in (and usually connected to an appropriate figure by an arrow) will allow derivation of meaningful measurements.
Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
(Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
There is a certain scale of duties […] which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion.
2012 May 13, Phil McNulty, “Man City 3-2 QPR”, in BBC Sport[2]:
City's players and supporters travelled from one end of the emotional scale to the other in those vital seconds, providing a truly remarkable piece of football theatre and the most dramatic conclusion to a season in Premier League history.
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.
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(transitive) 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.
At last I came to the great barrier-cliffs; and after three days of mad effort--of maniacal effort--I scaled them. I built crude ladders; I wedged sticks in narrow fissures; I chopped toe-holds and finger-holds with my long knife; but at last I scaled them. Near the summit I came upon a huge cavern.
1932, Dorothy L Sayers, Have his Carcase, Chapter 1.
A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it.
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