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scale

noun as in thin covering, skin

verb as in ascend, climb

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Weak match

verb as in measure

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The most recent activity had a high point of 3.6 on the Richter Scale.

So did Alexander Hamilton, and on a grander scale than your AmEx.

Only two senators opposed the resolution, which the administration later claimed was the authority for a full-scale war.

The last time there was a raid of this scale was in 2001, when 52 men were arrested on Queen Boat, a floating disco on the Nile.

Some of the streets in this part of the town have seen large scale-destruction.

On a small scale map, in an office, you may make mole-hills of mountains; on the ground there's no escaping from its features.

Free discussion—never a very free thing in Russia—has now on any general scale become quite impossible.

But consider what it will be when the system is adopted on a more comprehensive scale.

If only India were pulling her weight for us on the same scale, we should by now be before the gates of Vienna.

Aber Jeder will grossartig spielen heutzutage (But everybody wants to play on a grand scale now-a-days).

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On this page you'll find 144 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scale, such as: extent, proportion, range, rate, ratio, and scope.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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