different between sheet vs scale

English

Etymology

From Middle English schete; partly from Old English s??ete (“a sheet, a piece of linen cloth”); partly from Old English s??ata (“a corner, angle; the lower corner of a sail, sheet”); and Old English s??at (“a corner, angle”); all from Proto-Germanic *skautij?, *skautaz (“corner, wedge, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to throw, shoot, pursue, rush”). Cognate with North Frisian skut (“the fold of a garment, lap, coattail”), West Frisian skoat (“sheet; sail; lap”), Dutch schoot (“the fold of a garment, lap, sheet”), German Low German Schote (“a line from the foot of a sail”), German Schoß (“the fold of a garment, lap”), Swedish sköt (“sheet”), Icelandic skaut (“the corner of a cloth, a line from the foot of a sail, the skirt or sleeve of a garment, a hood”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?it/
• Hyphenation: sheet
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

sheet (plural sheets)

1. A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
2. A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc.

   Holonyms: signature, quire

   Meronyms: leaf, folium, page

3. A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.

4. A thin, flat layer of solid material.

5. A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.

6. (nautical) A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.

7. (nautical, nonstandard) A sail.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

8. (curling) The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
9. (nonstandard) A layer of veneer.
10. (figuratively) Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
11. (geology) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
12. (nautical) The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.

13. (video games, dated) A distinct level or stage within a game.
    • 1984 February, Sinclair Programs

      If you land safely you will gain 30 extra points and move to the next sheet.

    • 1984, Chris Passey and Matthew Uffindell, Run It Again, in Crash issue 4 [1]

      What distinguishes Eskimo Eddie from the others is that it has two totally different sheets in the game. […] In the first sheet, Frogger style, you have to rescue Percy penguin from Growler the bear.

Synonyms

• (piece of paper): page
• (line): rope
• (expanse of material): blanket, coat, coating, layer

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

• (thin layer of solid material): film
• (expanse of material): film

Derived terms

Related terms

• hit the sheets
• three sheets to the wind
• under the sheets
• white as a sheet

Translations

References

• sheet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

sheet (third-person singular simple present sheets, present participle sheeting, simple past and past participle sheeted)

1. (transitive) To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
2. (transitive) To form into sheets.
3. (intransitive) Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily.

4. (nautical) To trim a sail using a sheet.

Translations

References

• sheet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• seeth, thees, these

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.

   (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)

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.