Verb

(scal)

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.

To climb to the top of.

Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), 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.

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

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

To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.

* Shakespeare

Scaling his present bearing with his past.

Verb

(scal)

To remove the scales of.

Please scale that fish for dinner.

To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.

The dry weather is making my skin scale .

To strip or clear of scale; to descale.

to scale the inside of a boiler

To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.

* T. Burnet

if all the mountains were scaled , and the earth made even

To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.

Some sandstone scales by exposure.

* Francis Bacon

Those that cast their shell are the lobster and crab; the old skins are found, but the old shells never; so it is likely that they scale off.

(UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.

To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

(Totten)

Verb

(label) To obtain; to acquire.

(label) To receive.

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To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get .

(label) To become.

* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

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(label) To cause to become; to bring about.

*

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(label) To fetch, bring, take.

* Bible, (w) xxxi. 13

Get thee out from this land.

* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)

Heto the strong town of Mega.

(label) To cause to do.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Get him to say his prayers.

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To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

to get rid of fools and scoundrels

(label) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.

to get a mile

(label) To cause to come or go or move.

(label) To cause to be in a certain status or position.

* (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Retro me, Sathana , line 1

Get thee behind me.

(label) To begin (doing something).

(label) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).

(label) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).

To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).

To be subjected to.

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Do you mind? Excuse me / I saw you over there / Can I just tell you ¶ Although there are millions of / Cephalophores that wander through this world / You've got something extra going on / I think you probably know ¶ You probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl

(label) To be.

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(label) To become ill with or catch (a disease).

To catch out, trick successfully.

To perplex, stump.

(label) To find as an answer.

To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.

(label) To hear completely; catch.

(label) To .

To beget (of a father).

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I had rather to adopt a child than get it.

* 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 310:

Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.

(label) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out .

* (1625-1686)

it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty

Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.

*2007 , Tom Dyckhoff, Let's move to ..., The Guardian :

Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.