scaly
/ˈskeɪli/
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
sca - ly -> scaly
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.
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.
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။
ဖက်တက်သည်။ ကုတ်ကတ်တက်သည်။ (fig ) a surgeon who has scaled the heights of his profession.
သူ့ပညာရပ်တွင် တစ်ဖက်ကမ်းခပ် ကျွမ်းသူ။
- [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.
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