单词 | scaler |
释义 | † scalern.1 Obsolete. A manufacturer of scales. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of weighing or measuring instruments scaler1415 balance-maker1611 rule-maker1718 pedometrician1827 1415 in York Myst. Introd. p. xxiii Cuttellers..Blade~smyth..Shethers..Scalers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2021). scalern.2 1. One who removes scales or scale from fish, boilers, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > scaler of fish scaler1611 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning other miscellaneous things > [noun] > removal of fur, scale, etc. > one who scaler1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escailleur, a skaler, piller, shaler of. 1729 W. Rutty Tin-plates in Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 635 This..is kept as much a Secret by the Blancher, as the acid eroding Menstruum is by the Scaler. 1892 Eastern Morning News (Hull) 1 June 4/8 Henry Toyne, boiler scaler. 2. An instrument for removing scales or scale. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > other dental equipment explorer1844 plate1845 rose head1847 plugging forceps1861 plugger1862 rubber dam1865 finger mirror1867 nerve instrument1867 hoe1875 saliva extractor1877 thimble1877 finger-tray1878 scaler1881 matrix1883 saliva ejectora1884 sickle scaler1930 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > scaler of fish > instrument for removing scales scaler1881 1881 Coleman Dental Surg. & Pathol. xvi. 290 A..removal of all salivary deposition from the exposed fangs of the teeth..can only be effected by very narrow sharp scalers. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 782/2 Scaler, a dentist's tool for removing scale or tartar from teeth. 1891 Cent. Dict. Scaler, an instrument resembling a currycomb and usually made of tin, used for removing scales from fish. 3. Australian and New Zealand slang. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1924 Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Scaler, a fraud. c1926 ‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 5 (title) The Scaler... He waits until his dues are due, The bloke who does a scale. 1932 C. Wills Rhymes of Sydney (1933) 13 See the shoppers, toppers, tabs, Scalers by the score, Hopping off, Dropping off, Darting into shore. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. v. 106 A scaler is a person who rides in a vehicle without paying, or one who decamps with money with which he has been entrusted. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scalern.3 1. One who scales a wall or a mountain. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [noun] > climbing or scaling > one who or that which climber1423 scaler1569 upclimber1878 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 525 Martyn Godfrey called the scaler. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Escalador A scaler, a pilferer, Scalarum conscensor. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xvii. xxxi. 301 Brimarte the scaler [It. espugnator de le città]. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 99 Upon the Top they have piled spiked Timber to annoy the Scalers. 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 315 Jove hates the old scalers of heaven's walls. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 461 Nose-bleeding..which befell the first scalers of Mont-Blanc. 2. Lumber-trade. One who scales or measures logs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > tree-crop > timber measurer scaler1887 lumber-scaler1896 1887 Contemp. Rev. May 762 Each district is supplied with its Corps of State inspectors, ‘scalers’, &c. 1893 Scribner's Mag. June 710/1 The logs..measured by the quick-witted scaler. 3. One who uses a scale in surveying. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveyor > using specific instruments leveller1834 scaler1840 transit man1857 plane-tabler1878 tape-man1900 1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 406/1 By allowing two young hands to figure for each scaler, they check one another. 4. An electronic pulse-counter, suitable for high count-rates, in which a display or recording device is actuated after a fixed number of pulses has been received and added electronically. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > electronic circuit > [noun] > counting circuit ring circuit1879 ring counter1942 scaler1945 ring scaler1949 prescaler1954 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > electronic instruments > [noun] > scaler or pulse counter scale of (two, etc.)1932 scaler1945 pulse counter1963 1945 H. D. Smyth Gen. Acct. Devel. Atomic Energy Mil. Purposes 140 The scaler was set at zero. 1953 Sci. Amer. Mar. 105/3 As a series of pulses flows into the scaler a voltage builds up step by step... When the cut off point is reached, the tube begins to conduct and the condenser discharges, sending a single pulse from the tube's output. 1964 Analyt. Chem. 36 2221/1 Development of the pipping scaler was stimulated by..experimental work in which it was necessary to determine time vs. concentration curves having a duration of a second or less. 1977 N. Freeling Gadget ii. 87 That's a PM—sorry, photo~multiplier tube... Sends signals here, to the amplifier, through here, that's the discriminator, to here, the scaler. 1980 J. W. Hill Intermediate Physics xxiii. 220 These are connected to about 400V obtained usually from a scaler, a piece of electronic apparatus which can count very rapidly using either ‘dekatrons’ or a digital display. 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