scale

Pronunciation

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Noun

Singular scale

Plural scales

1. A scale is a small machine for measuring (finding out) how much something weighs (how heavy the thing is.) <> ma'auni/ma'auna.

   With Plum, Jennett devised the Glasgow Coma Scale <> Tare da Plum, Jenett ya kirkiro ma'aunin sumar Glasgow --bbchausa_verticals/083-inside-the-minds-of-the-dead

   She stood on the scale and found out she weighed 150 pounds.

2. (music) A series of eight notes.

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  A scale for weighing small things
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  A balance is a kind of scale
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  A musical scale
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  scale to measure it

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) scale

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) scales

Past tense (ya wuce) scaled

Past participle (ya wuce) scaled

Present participle (ana cikin yi) scaling

1. If you scale something, then you climb up it. <> hawa kan abu.