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    "word": "scale",
    "phonetic": "/ske\u026al/",
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    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Size; scope.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale."
          },
          {
            "definition": "The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "This map uses a scale of 1:10."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "the decimal scale; the binary scale"
          },
          {
            "definition": "Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
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      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "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.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "We should scale that up by a factor of 10."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To climb to the top of.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "That architecture won't scale to real-world environments."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
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    "word": "scale",
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    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "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.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "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.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Limescale.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A scale insect.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To remove the scales of.",
            "synonyms": [
              "descale"
            ],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Please scale that fish for dinner."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The dry weather is making my skin scale."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To strip or clear of scale; to descale.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "to scale the inside of a boiler"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Some sandstone scales by exposure."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To scatter; to spread.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "descale"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      }
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    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A device to measure mass or weight.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
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