different between scale vs ecumenopolitan

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)

1. (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
2. 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.

3. Size; scope.

   There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.

4. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.

   This map uses a scale of 1:10.

5. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
6. (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
7. A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.

   the decimal scale; the binary scale

8. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
9. 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)

2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.

   That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.

5. (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)

1. 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.

1. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
2. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
3. 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.
4. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
5. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
6. Limescale.
7. A scale insect.
8. 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)

1. (transitive) To remove the scales of.

   Please scale that fish for dinner.

   Synonym: descale

2. (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.

   The dry weather is making my skin scale.

3. (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.

   to scale the inside of a boiler

4. (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

5. (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.

   Some sandstone scales by exposure.
6. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
7. (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

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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)

1. A device to measure mass or weight.

   After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.

1. 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

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. hut, hovel

References

• “sc?le, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Alternative forms

• œcumenopolitan (rare)

Etymology

ecumenopolis +? -ity +? -an. First reliably attested in 1974: either, as from Ecumenopolitan, or a generalised use thereof, parallel with the development of ecumenopolis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?kyo?o'm?n?p??l?t?n, IPA^(key): /??kju?m?n???p?l?t?n/

Homophone: Ecumenopolitan

Adjective

ecumenopolitan (not comparable)

1. Of or conducive to the development, befitting the scale, or characteristic of an ecumenopolis or ecumenopoleis.
   • 1971: The Mastery of Urban Growth: Report of the International Colloquium, Brussels, 2–4 December 1969, page 47 (Mens en ruimte, M. plus R international)

     […] “ecumenopolitan” formations.

   • 1974: Spenser W. Havlick, The Urban Organism: The City’s Natural Resources from an Environmental Perspective, page 476 (Macmillan; ?ISBN, 9780023518102)

     Certainly the magnitude of megalopolitan or ecumenopolitan problems tends to overwhelm the individual who is a perspective participant.

   • 1976: The Planner, volume 62, page 25 (Royal Town Planning Institute)

     ‘The ecumenopolitan concept’, said Professor Dix of Nottingham, apparently proposing the ‘dilution’ motion, ‘implies the better use of resources, perhaps a greater use of telecommunications and electronics, and properly planned transport systems. It means a better and more readily accessible countryside…’.

   • 1976: Leman Group Inc, Great Lakes Megalopolis: From Civilization to Ecumenization, page 97 (Ministry of State, Urban Affairs, Canada; ?ISBN, 9780660003764)

     In many, many areas on megalopolitan government, the next time a meeting of this sort gets together and begins to think basically, they are going to be talking about ecumenopolitan government and people are going to be saying: “Ecumenopolis, who needs it? Ecumenopolis, it doesn’t exist and never will.”

   • 1979: Albert N. Cousins and Hans Nagpaul, Urban Life: The Sociology of Cities and Urban Society, page 587 (Wiley; ?ISBN, 9780471030263)

     The very largest concentrations in the entire complex will have to be rescued from simply more sprawl, because suburbanization and exurbanization continue to bring added pressures on the core. The best way to do this, Doxiadis thought, is to engineer the establishment of new metropolitan areas at only a moderate distance away as nodes in a hierarchical pattern suitable to the ecumenopolitan phase of human history. Then, in an oracular manner looking even beyond the “world-spanning city,” Doxiadis saw mankind of the future even moving in the direction of an extraterrestrial Cosmopolis, “the city of the Cosmos.”??

   • 1980: International Journal for Housing Science and Its Applications, volume 4, page vi (Pergamon)

     While this is the scale which, for many, is still difficult to perceive or accept, there are a number of signs that such ecumenopolitan systems are very much in the making.¹? The two world wars are but consequences of frictions arising between two or three near-global spatial/operational arrangements dating back to fifteenth and sixteenth century concepts and to the systems which such concepts spurred.

   • 1987: J. F. Brotchie, Peter Geoffrey Hall, and Peter Wesley Newton [eds.], The Spatial Impact of Technological Change, pages 413?¹? and 414?²? (Croom Helm; ?ISBN, 9780709950066)

     ?¹? For the mid 1980s I estimate that at least one million adults belong to the ecumenopolitan stratum; several times as many are in the educational stream with ambitions to join them.

     ?²? Iranians were graduated from North American universities with motivations that are virtually indistinguishable from their classmates, but their command of Asian languages and their entrepreneurship generates a backflow of ecumenopolitan commitments to Asia.

   • 2007: Baleshwar Thakur, George Pomeroy, Chris Cusack, and Sudhir K Thakur [eds.], City, Society, and Planning, volume 1: “City”, page 16 (Concept Publishing Company; ?ISBN

     The prospective urban implies, therefore, ecumenopolitan order.

   • 2007: Peter Droege, The Renewable City: A Comprehensive Guide to an Urban Revolution, page 39 (John Wiley & Sons; ?ISBN, 9780470019252)

     The modern suburb is a logical corollary of this fossil fuel powered narrative and expresses it in holographic detail. And its ascendancy continues: suburbs and their appurtenances mushroom at and between the fringes of the world’s metropolitan cores, following Doxiadess’ ecumenopolitan premonitions with the precision of a large oil spill […]

Noun

ecumenopolitan (plural ecumenopolitans)

1. An inhabitant of an ecumenopolis, especially one actively involved in its political arena.
   • 1974: Spenser W. Havlick, The Urban Organism: The City’s Natural Resources from an Environmental Perspective, page 475 (Macmillan; ?ISBN, 9780023518102)

     The danger of this pattern is of course that the ecumenopolitan becomes spread very thin among various roles and locations. As a citizen of the world we see more of the whole picture but become frustrated in trying to find where the need is greatest so we can “plug in.”

   • 1987: J. F. Brotchie, Peter Geoffrey Hall, and Peter Wesley Newton [eds.], The Spatial Impact of Technological Change, pages 419?¹? and 420?²? (Croom Helm; ?ISBN, 9780709950066)

     ?¹? A large share of the ecumenopolitans may not take the trouble to operate their own vehicles.

     ?²? The automata and the ecumenopolitans are inherently symbiotic, but the new breed will be specialists who are virtually bionic.

   • 1991: J. F. Brotchie [ed.], Cities of the 21st Century: New Technologies and Spatial Systems, page 379 (Longman Cheshire; ?ISBN, 9780470217429)

     Table 1?The ecumenopolitans: the world-serving roles

   • 1997: Nan Ellin, Architecture of Fear, page 228 (Princeton Architectural Press; ?ISBN

     In 1962 Yona Friedman predicted that the entire world population would be agglomerated into 1000 big cities.? Also in the early 1960s Constantinos A. Doxiadis envisaged an “ecumenopolis”? consisting of groups of major cities linked to each other (by air traffic and electronic communications) more firmly than to the surrounding districts of the countries in which they are located. A global elite, crossing national boundaries daily, would be the ultimate form of civilization. According to metabolist theory set out by Kisho Kurokawa in 1967, each of these cities would be a “metapolis,” an urban unit for ecumenopolitans built in “super-architecture”: “A Metapolis will be a junction point of mobile information. It will also be the place from which directives are issued.”? Singapore is the apotheosis of Metabolism.

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