Slide vs Scale - What's the difference?
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(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface
To move on a low-friction surface.
* (rfdate), Waller:
(baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
(obsolete) To pass inadvertently.
* Bible, Eccles. xxviii. 26
To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
* (rfdate), Dryden:
* (rfdate), Alexander Pope:
(music) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound.
To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
* (rfdate), Chaucer:
* (rfdate), Philip Sidney:
An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
* Francis Bacon
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A lever that can be moved in two directions.
A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
(baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
(sciences) A flat, rectangular piece of glass on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope.
(music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
(geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
(music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
(phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
(obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement.
Size; scope.
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The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced
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A means of assigning a magnitude.
(music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
A mathematical base for a numeral system.
Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
* Milton
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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.
To climb to the top of.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
(computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
* Shakespeare
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.
* Milton
A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
A pine nut of a pinecone.
The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
Limescale
A scale insect
The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
To remove the scales of.
To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
* T. Burnet
To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
* Francis Bacon
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
A device to measure mass or weight.
Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
In lang=en terms the difference between slide and scale
is that slide is to pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance while scale is to clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between slide and scale
is that slide is (obsolete) to pass inadvertently while scale is (obsolete) a ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.In music|lang=en terms the difference between slide and scale
is that slide is (music) a grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below while scale is (music) a series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.As verbs the difference between slide and scale
is that slide is (ergative) to (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface while scale is 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 or scale can be to remove the scales of.As nouns the difference between slide and scale
is that slide is an item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again while scale is (obsolete) a ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending or scale can be 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 or scale can be a device to measure mass or weight.slide
English
Verb
- He slid the boat across the grass.
- The safe slid slowly.
- Snow slides down the side of a mountain.
- The car slid on the ice.
- They bathe in summer, and in winter slide .
- Jones slid into second.
- He slid while going around the corner.
- to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question
- Beware thou slide not by it.
- A ship or boat slides through the water.
- Ages shall slide away without perceiving.
- Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
- With good hope let he sorrow slide .
- With a calm carelessness letting everything slide .
Derived terms
* let slideNoun
(en noun)- The long, red slide was great fun for the kids.
- (Charles Dickens)
- The slide closed the highway.
- a slide on the ice
- A better slide into their business.
- (Dana)
Synonyms
* (item of play equipment) slippery dip * (inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity) chute * (mechanism of a part which slides on or against a guide) runnerDerived terms
* landslide * mudslide * water slide * hairslidescale
English
(wikipedia scale) {, style="float: right; clear:right;" , , }Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; see scan, ascend, descend, etc.Noun
(en noun)- Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
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- The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale .
- There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.
- This map uses a scale of 1:10.
- Even though precision can be carried to an extreme, the scales which now are drawn in (and usually connected to an appropriate figure by an arrow) will allow derivation of meaningful measurements.
- The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale .
- the decimal scale'''; the binary '''scale
- There is a certain scale of duties which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion.
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Derived terms
* Celsius scale * Fahrenheit scale * Kelvin scale * major scale * microscale * milliscale * minor scale * modal scale * scale invariance * scale model * Richter scale * to scale * wage scale * widescaleHyponyms
* (music) tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, leading note, octave interval * (geography) cartographic ratio, resolution, grain, support, focus, extent, range, sizeSee also
* degree * ordinal variableVerb
(scal)- We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
- Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
- 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.
- That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
- Scaling his present bearing with his past.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) scale, from (etyl) escale, from (etyl) or another (etyl) source skala /, (etyl) scaglia.Noun
(en noun)- Fish that, with their fins and shining scales , / Glide under the green wave.
Derived terms
* antiscalantVerb
(scal)- Please scale that fish for dinner.
- The dry weather is making my skin scale .
- to scale the inside of a boiler
- if all the mountains were scaled , and the earth made even
- Some sandstone scales by exposure.
- 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.
- (Totten)
Etymology 3
From (etyl) . Cognate with , as in Etymology 2.Noun
(en noun)- After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale .
