| 释义 |
scale2 /skāl/ noun- A thin plate on a fish, reptile, etc
- A readily detached flake
- A lamina
- An overlapping plate in armour
- A small, flat, detachable piece of cuticle
- A reduced leaf or leaf-base, often membranous, or hard and woody
- Any of the small flat structures covering a butterfly's or moth's wing
- The waxy shield secreted by a scale insect
- An encrustation, esp that left inside a kettle, etc by hard water
- A deposit of tartar on the teeth
- A film, as on iron being heated for forging
- A side piece of a razor or clasp-knife handle
transitive verb- To clear of scale or scales
- To peel off in thin layers
intransitive verb- To come off in thin layers or flakes
- To form scales
- To become encrusted with scale
ORIGIN: ME scāle, from OFr escale husk, chip of stone, of Gmc origin; cf scale3, shale2, shell scaled adjective - Having scales
- Cleared of scales
scaleˈless adjective scaleˈlike adjective scalˈer noun - A person who scales fish, boilers, etc
- An instrument for scaling, as for removing tartar from the teeth
scalˈiness noun scalˈing noun - Formation, peeling off, shedding, removal, or arrangement, of scales or scale
- A scaled-off piece
scalˈy adjective - Covered with scales
- Like scales
- Shabby
- Formed of scales
- Inclined to scale
scale armour noun Armour of overlapping scales scale board noun A very thin slip of wood scale fern noun A fern (Ceterach officinarum) whose back is densely covered with rusty-coloured scales scale fish noun - A dry-cured fish, such as haddock, hake, pollack
- A fish with scales
scale insect noun Any insect of the homopterous family Coccidae, in which the sedentary female fixes on a plant and secretes a waxy shield scale leaf noun A scale that is homologically a leaf scale moss noun A liverwort with small leaflike structures, as Jungermannia scaleˈwork noun Imbricated ornament scaly anteater noun The pangolin scalˈy-bark noun - Hickory
- Hickory-nut
scalˈy-leg noun A disease of the legs and feet in poultry, caused by a mite |