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Scaled vs Swaled - What's the difference?

scaled | swaled |

As verbs the difference between scaled and swaled

is that scaled is (scale) while swaled is (swale).

As an adjective scaled

is (zoology) covered with scales or scale-like structures .

scaled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (scale)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (zoology) Covered with scales or scale-like structures.
  • Without scales, or with the scales removed.
    • scaled herring

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    swaled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (swale)

    • swale

    English

    Etymology 1

    , from (etyl), "shade", perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to (etyl) svalr

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A low tract of moist or marshy land.
  • A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
  • A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
  • A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
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    • Jane climbed a few more paces behind him and then peeped over the ridge. Just beyond began a shallow swale that deepened and widened into a valley, and then swung to the left.
  • A shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope). Its purpose being to allow water time to percolate into the soil.

    • Etymology 2

    See sweal.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A gutter in a candle.

    • Verb

    (swal)
  • (melt and waste away, or singe)

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