Scales

Definition

scale 1 /skeÇl/ n ၁။ [C usu sing, U] အတိုင္းအတာ။ 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) (သတ္မွတ္ထားေသာ၊ အတိုင္းအတာအျဖစ္သံုးေသာ) ႏႈန္းထား။ စေကး။ 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) တိုင္းတာမႈစနစ္။ the decimal scale. See also RICHTER SCALE ၃။ [C] (က) တိုင္းတာမႈအမွတ္အသားစနစ္။ စေကး။ This ruler has one scale in centimetres and another in inches. (ခ) (ျပဒါးတိုင္၊ ေပတံ စသည့္ တိုင္းတာေရး ကိရိယာမ်ားေပၚရိွ)စံအမွတ္အသား။ စေကး။ How much does it read on the scale? ၄။ [C usu sing ] (လူေနမႈ၊ လူမႈေရး စသည္)အဆင့္၊ ေပတံ။ rise up the social scale ❍ At the other end of the scale we find gross poverty. ၅။ [C] (ပကတိအရြယ္အစားႏွင့္ ဖံုပါ အရြယ္အစား တို႔၏) အခ်ဳိး။ (ေျမပံု၊ ပံု)စေကး။ 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 ) သံစဥ္။ the scale of F (ie with F as the keynote) ❍ practise scales on the piano. Compare OCTAVE ❏ scale sth down/up [ PHRV ] အခ်ဳိးက် ခ်ံဳ႕သည္၊ ခ်ဲ႕ သည္။ စေကးကိုက္ ခ်ံဳ႕သည္၊ ခ်ဲ႕သည္။ 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 ] အခ်ဳိးက်။ စေကးကိုက္။ draw a map of an area to scale. scale 2 /skeÇl/ n ၁။ (က) [C] အေၾကးခြံ။ အေၾကး။ scrape the scales from a herring. ❍ FISH (ခ) [C] အေၾကး။ buds with a covering of sticky scales. ၂။ (also fur ) [U] (ေရေႏြးအိုး၊ ပိုက္ စသည္တြင္ တက္ေသာ) ခ်ဳိး။ lime scale. ၃။ [U] (သြားတြင္ အညစ္အေၾကး) ခ်ဳိး။ PLAQUE 2 v (ငါးကို)အေၾကးထိုးသည္။ Compare DESCALE ❏ scaly adj အေၾကးခြံဖံုးေသာ (သို႔) ခ်ဳိးတက္ေသာ။ scaly skin/ferns/monsters ❍ a kettle that is scaly inside. scale 3 /skeÇl/ n ၁။ scales [pl v ] ( US also scale [C]) ခ်ိန္ခြင္။ စဥ္း။ ရာဇူ။ ကပ္ပယ္။ a pair of scales ❍ bathroom/ kitchen/ weighing scales. ၂။ [C] ခ်ိန္ခြင္။ ( fig ) the scales of justice. တရားဥပေဒ ခ်ိန္ခြင္လွ်ာ။ scale 4 /skeÇ l / v ဖက္တက္သည္။ ကုတ္ကတ္တက္သည္။ ( fig ) a surgeon who has scaled the heights of his profession. သူ႕ပညာရပ္တြင္ တစ္ဖက္ကမ္းခပ္ ကြၽမ္းသူ။

Examples

1. [scale of] : Is the Government aware of the full scale of the problem?
2. [on a large/small/grand/massive etc scale] : This is sculpture on a grand scale.
3. [scale of] : The scale of production in the factory has increased this year.
4. The rich are at the top of the social scale.
5. At the other end of the scale are worms and the tiny sea creatures.
6. The Celsius scale of temperature
7. [on a scale of 1 to 10] : We were told to rate the films on a scale of 1 to 10.
8. [salary/pay/fee scale] : The salary scale is £22
9. 086 to £32
10. 311.
11. The vertical scale on the graph
12. This map has a scale of 1:20
13. 000.
14. A scale of a half-inch to the mile
15. A pair/set of scales
16. He weighed himself on the bathroom scales.
17. She was practising scales on her new piano.