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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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scale

/skeɪl/

US pronunciation
American sound/skeɪl/
scale
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final e often stays silent

US voice -> scale

Myanmar meaning

(n) အတိုင်းအတာ

Full entry

scale1 /skeÇl/ n

၁။ [C usu sing, U] အတိုင်းအတာ။ ပမာဏ။ entertain on a large scale (eg hold expensive parties with many guests) ❍ On a global scale, 77% of energy is created from fossil fuels. ❍ Here was corruption on a grand scale. ❍ achieve economies of scale in production (ie producing many items to reduce the price of each one) ❍ The scale of commercial activity has declined. ❍ It was impossible to comprehend the full scale of the disaster. See also FULL-SCALE, LARGE-SCALE, SMALL-SCALE
၂။ [C] (က) (သတ်မှတ်ထားသော၊ အတိုင်းအတာအဖြစ်သုံးသော) နှုန်းထား။ စကေး။
a scale of fees/charges/taxation ❍ a five-point pay scale ❍ evaluate performance on a scale from 1 to 10 ❍ The salary scale goes from £12500 to £20000. See also SLIDING SCALE
(ခ) တိုင်းတာမှုစနစ်။ the decimal scale. See also RICHTER SCALE
၃။ [C] (က) တိုင်းတာမှုအမှတ်အသားစနစ်။ စကေး။ This ruler has one scale in centimetres and another in inches. (ခ) (ပြဒါးတိုင်၊ ပေတံ စသည့် တိုင်းတာရေး ကိရိယာများပေါ်ရှိ)စံအမှတ်အသား။ စကေး။ How much does it read on the scale?
၄။ [C usu sing ] (လူနေမှု၊ လူမှုရေး စသည်)အဆင့်၊ ပေတံ။ rise up the social scale ❍ At the other end of the scale we find gross poverty.
၅။ [C] (ပကတိအရွယ်အစားနှင့် ဖုံပါ အရွယ်အစား တို့၏) အချိုး။ (မြေပုံ၊ ပုံ)စကေး။ a scale of ten kilometres to the centimetre ❍ a scale of 1:25000 ❍ Plans are being drawn at/to a much larger scale (ie to show a relatively small area in detail). ❍ a scale model/drawing. ❍ MAP
၆။ [C] (music ) သံစဉ်။ the scale of F (ie with F as the keynote) ❍ practise scales on the piano. Compare OCTAVE
❏ scale sth down/up [PHRV ]
အချိုးကျ ချုံ့သည်၊ ချဲ့ သည်။ စကေးကိုက် ချုံ့သည်၊ ချဲ့သည်။ scale up production to meet demand ❍ We are scaling down the number of trees to be felled. ❍ the scaling down of military forces.
❏ to scale [IDM ] အချိုးကျ။ စကေးကိုက်။ draw a map of an area to scale.

scale2 /skeÇl/ n

၁။ (က) [C] အကြေးခွံ။ အကြေး။ scrape the scales from a herring. ❍ FISH (ခ) [C] အကြေး။ buds with a covering of sticky scales.
၂။ (also fur ) [U] (ရေနွေးအိုး၊ ပိုက် စသည်တွင် တက်သော) ချိုး။ lime scale.
၃။ [U] (သွားတွင် အညစ်အကြေး) ချိုး။ PLAQUE2
v (ငါးကို)အကြေးထိုးသည်။ Compare DESCALE
❏ scaly adj အကြေးခွံဖုံးသော (သို့) ချိုးတက်သော။ scaly skin/ferns/monsters ❍ a kettle that is scaly inside.

scale3 /skeÇl/ n

၁။ scales [pl v ] (US also scale [C]) ချိန်ခွင်။ စဉ်း။ ရာဇူ။ ကပ်ပယ်။ a pair of scales ❍ bathroom/ kitchen/ weighing scales.
၂။ [C] ချိန်ခွင်။ (fig ) the scales of justice. တရားဥပဒေ ချိန်ခွင်လျှာ။

scale4 /skeÇl / v

ဖက်တက်သည်။ ကုတ်ကတ်တက်သည်။ (fig ) a surgeon who has scaled the heights of his profession.
သူ့ပညာရပ်တွင် တစ်ဖက်ကမ်းခပ် ကျွမ်းသူ။

More examples
  • [scale of] : Is the Government aware of the full scale of the problem?
  • [on a large/small/grand/massive etc scale] : This is sculpture on a grand scale.
  • [scale of] : The scale of production in the factory has increased this year.
  • The rich are at the top of the social scale.
  • At the other end of the scale are worms and the tiny sea creatures.
  • The Celsius scale of temperature
  • [on a scale of 1 to 10] : We were told to rate the films on a scale of 1 to 10.
  • [salary/pay/fee scale] : The salary scale is £22, 086 to £32, 311.
  • The vertical scale on the graph
  • This map has a scale of 1:20, 000.
  • A scale of a half-inch to the mile
  • A pair/set of scales
  • He weighed himself on the bathroom scales.
  • She was practising scales on her new piano.
Synonyms
level, weighing machine, size, balance, range, degree, extent, amount, magnitude, dimension, adjust, ascend, band, calibrate, calibration, clamber, clear, climb, compare, computation, compute, covering, crust, degrees, deposit, escalade, escalate, estimate, film, flake, fur, gamut, gauge, go up, gradation, graduate, graduated system, hierarchy, incrustation, ladder, lamina, layer, measure, measurement, mount, move up, order, pecking order, piece, plaque, plate, progression, proportion, prorate, ranking, rate, ratio, reach, register, regulate, rule, ruler, scab, scales, scope, scrabble, scramble, scurf, sequence, series, skin, spectrum, spread, steps, surmount, system, tartar, thin covering, tier, top, way, weighbridge
Antonyms
decrease, descend, disorder, disorganization, guess, part, whole
Cross references
levelweighing machinesizebalancerangedegreeextentamountmagnitudedimensionadjustascendbandcalibratecalibrationclamberclearclimbcomparecomputationcomputecoveringcrustdegreesdepositescaladeescalateestimate
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