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ladder
English
Alternative forms
- ledder (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English ladder, laddre, from Old English hl?der, from Proto-Germanic *hlaidrij? (compare Scots ledder, North Frisian ladder, Saterland Frisian Laadere, West Frisian ljedder, Dutch ladder, leer, German Leiter), from Proto-Indo-European *?leytro (compare Old Irish clithar (“hedge”), Umbrian ???????????????????????????? (kletram, “stretcher”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?ley- (“to lean”). See lean, which is related to lid.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?lad?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?læd?/, [?læ??]
- Homophone: latter (in accents with flapping)
- Rhymes: -æd?(r)
- Hyphenation: lad?der
Noun
ladder (plural ladders)
- A frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened rungs (cross strips or rounds acting as steps).
- (figuratively) A series of stages by which one progresses to a better position.
- (figuratively) The hierarchy or ranking system within an organization, such as the corporate ladder.
- (chiefly Britain) A length of unravelled fabric in a knitted garment, especially in nylon stockings; a run.
- In the game of go, a sequence of moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture of the attacked stones.
Usage notes
For stockings touted as resistant to ladders (unraveling), the phrase “ladder resist” is used in the UK. The American equivalent is “run resistant”.
Synonyms
- (frame for ascent and descent): stepladder
- (unravelled fabric): run (primarily US)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
ladder (third-person singular simple present ladders, present participle laddering, simple past and past participle laddered)
- To arrange or form into a shape of a ladder.
- (chiefly firefighting) To ascend (a building, a wall, etc.) using a ladder.
- Of a knitted garment: to develop a ladder as a result of a broken thread.
- 1993, Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong, London: Hutchinson, ISBN 978-0-09-177373-1; republished as Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, June 1997, ISBN 978-0-679-77681-9, page 254:
- He slid his hand up her skirt and murmured in her ear. / "Robert, I've just got dressed. Stop it." […] / He laddered her stocking and smudged her lipstick, but she had time to repair the damage before they went out.
- 1993, Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong, London: Hutchinson, ISBN 978-0-09-177373-1; republished as Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, June 1997, ISBN 978-0-679-77681-9, page 254:
- (Britain, naval slang) To close in on a target with successive salvos, increasing or decreasing the shot range as necessary.
- 2007, Peter Smith, Naval Warfare in the English Channel: 1939-1945 (page 134)
- For eighteen minutes Revenge pounded the dockyard area at an average range of 15,700 yards, spreading for line and laddering for range to a prearranged plan to cover the whole target area.
- 2014, Norman Friedman, Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns & Gunnery
- Laddering made it possible to get a few hits on a fast-moving, often manoeuvring, target.
- 2007, Peter Smith, Naval Warfare in the English Channel: 1939-1945 (page 134)
Anagrams
- Aldred, larded, raddle
Dutch
Alternative forms
- leeder (obsolete)
- leer (dialectal, dated)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch ladere, from Old Frisian hladder, hledder, hleder, hl?rde, from Proto-Germanic *hlaidrij?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?.d?r/
- Hyphenation: lad?der
- Rhymes: -?d?r
Noun
ladder f (plural ladders, diminutive laddertje n)
- A ladder.
- (clothing) A ladder, a run (length of unravelled fabric).
Meronyms
- sport
Derived terms
- toonladder
- touwladder
Descendants
- Afrikaans: leer
- ? Sotho: lere
- ? Xhosa: ileli
Middle English
Alternative forms
- (Early ME) læddræ, leaddre, læddre
- laddre, ladre, leddre, ledder, laddir, lheddre, leddyr
Etymology
From Old English hl?der, hlædder, from Proto-Germanic *hlaidrij?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lad?r/, /?l?d?r/, /?l??d?r/
Noun
ladder (plural laddres or laddren)
- ladder (set of portable steps):
- (figuratively, religion) A symbolisation of the link from the heavens to the world.
- (figuratively, rare) A method or way of achievement consisting of multiple steps.
- (rare) A frame for a cart.
Descendants
- English: ladder
- Scots: ledder
References
- “ladder(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.
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scale
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ske?l/, [ske???]
- Hyphenation: scale
- Rhymes: -e?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English scale, from Latin sc?la, usually in plural sc?lae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *scadla, from scand? (“I climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala.
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
- Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
- The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.
- Size; scope.
- There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- This map uses a scale of 1:10.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
- (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
- the decimal scale; the binary scale
- Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
- A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.
- Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.
Hyponyms
- (earthquake): Mercalli scale, Palermo scale, Richter scale
- (economy): wage scale
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (suk?ru)
Translations
See also
- degree
- ordinal variable
References
- scale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
scale (third-person singular simple present scales, present participle scaling, simple past and past participle scaled)
- (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
- We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
- (transitive) To climb to the top of.
- Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
- At last I came to the great barrier-cliffs; and after three days of mad effort--of maniacal effort--I scaled them. I built crude ladders; I wedged sticks in narrow fissures; I chopped toe-holds and finger-holds with my long knife; but at last I scaled them. Near the summit I came upon a huge cavern.
- 1932, Dorothy L Sayers, Have his Carcase, Chapter 1.
- A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it.
- (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
- (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
Hyponyms
- scale back
- scale down
- scale up
Related terms
- scaling ladder
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skal?. Cognate with Old English s?ealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale. Also related to English shell, French écaille, Italian scaglia.
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
- The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- Limescale.
- A scale insect.
- The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
Derived terms
- antiscalant
- criticola scale
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (suk?ru)
Translations
Verb
scale (third-person singular simple present scales, present participle scaling, simple past and past participle scaled)
- (transitive) To remove the scales of.
- Please scale that fish for dinner.
- Synonym: descale
- (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- The dry weather is making my skin scale.
- (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
- to scale the inside of a boiler
- (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
- if all the mountains and hills were scaled, and the earth made even
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
- (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- Some sandstone scales by exposure.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
- (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
Translations
Etymology 3
From Old Norse skál (“bowl”). Compare Danish skål (“bowl, cup”), Dutch schaal; German Schale; Old High German sc?la; Gothic ???????????????????????? (skalja, “tile, brick”), Old English scealu (“cup; shell”). Cognate with scale, as in Etymology 2.
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
Usage notes
- The noun is often used in the plural to denote a single device (originally a pair of scales had two pans).
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (suk?ru)
Translations
Further reading
- scale up on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- scale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- scale in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- -clase, Salce, acles, alecs, claes, laces, selca
Italian
Noun
scale f pl
- plural of scala
Anagrams
- calse, salce
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French escale.
Alternative forms
- skale, scalle
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ska?l(?)/
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- flake
Descendants
- English: scale
- Yola: skaulès (plural)
References
- “sc?le, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
From Latin sc?la.
Alternative forms
- skale, schale
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- ladder
Descendants
- English: scale
References
- “sc?le, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
From Old Norse [Term?].
Alternative forms
- shale, schale
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- hut, hovel
References
- “sc?le, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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