scaledadj.1
/skeɪld/ 1. Having or furnished with scales, as a fish or a serpent; scaly. Now rare except as second element of combinations, as silver-scaled, and Heraldry.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a hard protective covering > having scales
scaleda1400
scaly1528
plateda1560
squamy1592
squamigerous1656
squamose1661
shielded1662
squamous1668
squamated1752
scutated1802
loricate1826
scutate1826
squamate1826
scutulate1827
loricated1871
scutulated1885
a1400–50 Alexander 3865 Scalid neddirs.
c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 614 Formyd lyke a dragon, scalyd harde as glas.
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie i. 235 The creatures chelled, named Conchilia, and also of those that are scaled (called insecta).
1589 J. Eldred in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 232 Euphrates..hath diuers sorts of fish in it, but all are scaled.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. v. 96 A Cesterne for scal'd Snakes. View more context for this quotation
1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 155 The scal'd Crocodile, out-weep Thee can.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 455/1 An Indian scaled Hedghog.
1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 32 Fish are described as being scaled and finned.
2.
a. Of armour. Cf. scale-armour n.; scaly adj. 5.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [adjective] > made of or furnished with plates
scaled1555
scaly1600
mascled1818
tegulated1834
laminated1869
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. vii. 160 A brestplate emboussed, of skaled woorke.
1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe (1893) 20 Their Scaled and nailed Corslets.
1825 T. D. Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. II. xviii. 782 Scaled Armour also occurs.
1834 Penny Cycl. II. 368/2 Whether this was the scaled-armour,..or that made of flat-rings..is not quite clear.
b. = imbricated adj. 2, 3.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [adjective] > arranged in overlapping layers > comprised of overlapping layers
loricated1623
imbricate1656
imbricated1753
scaled1776
imbricative1855
1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) Explan. Terms 392 Imbricata, scaled.
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 238 Callipepla [squamata]... Scaled Partridge. Blue Quail.
1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 570 Scardafella inca... Inca Dove. Scaled Dove.
1884 Fortn. Rev. Apr. 533 The tear-bottle of scaled and iridescent glass.
1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 97 The..date-palms, with their scaled trunks.
c. Covered with tiles in imitation of scales.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [adjective] > type of roof
thatched1467
side?a1475
thacked1530
vaulted1552
shingleda1563
slated1611
unshingled1611
high-pitch1614
slate-pointed1648
killesed1649
hipped1663
pantiledc1672
overpitched1677
underpitched1677
low-pitcheda1684
pitched1773
theeked1792
peaked1797
shingle1810
thackless1810
choppered1818
wagon-headed1823
unlathed1854
break-back1856
shingly1857
saddleback1861
scaled1862
gambrelled1863
thatchy1864
weather-slated1870
thatchless1882
weather-tiled1887
monopitch1941
tile-roofed1962
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > tile > [adjective] > consisting of or covered with
tilya1382
tiledc1450
scaled1862
tile-hung1948
1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. xliii. 80 The church boasts the loftiest scaled spire in Sweden.
1896 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. vii. 231 The earlier house and its little gables and grey scaled roofs.
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scaledadj.2
/skeɪld/ From which scales have fallen or have been removed.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare > having outer layer lost or removed
scaled1599
exfoliated1676
1599 H. C. in Greenham's Wks. (1601) Ep. to Rdr. From whose hie top thy scaled eyes may see, A glorious light that shall enlighten thee.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxvi. xiv. 265 The spills of broken and skaled bones.
1729 W. Rutty Tin-plates in Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 636 To prevent this,..they might first make an Essay with small Pieces of the scaled Plates.
1840 R. Browning Sordello i. 503 A touch divine—And the scaled eyeball owns the mystic rod.
1873 J. Tomes & C. S. Tomes Syst. Dental Surg. (ed. 2) 560 In order to secure the smoothness of the scaled surface, they should be polished with pumice-powder on a piece of wood.
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scaledadj.3
/skeɪld/ Provided or furnished with a graduated scale.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [adjective] > attributes of measuring instruments
graduated1806
self-recording1838
recording1857
centre-zero1879
scaled1900
zeroable1956
1900 Daily News 24 Aug. 5/1 Equipping the marksmen of every battalion with detachable scaled sights.
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scaledadj.4
1. That has been taken by escalade.
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society > armed hostility > defeat > [adjective] > captured > captured by escalade
scaled1614
1614 R. Brathwait Poets Willow 75 See how the Iuy twines Vpon the ruines of a skaled wall.
2.
a. That has been measured by a scale or varied in a determined proportion.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > [adjective] > that measures or regulates by a scale > that has been measured by a scale
scaled1885
1885 W. Penman Land Surveying ix. 127 The scaled area is less than the actual one, indicating shrinkage of the paper.
1938 Rev. Sci. Instruments 9 221/1 The fluctuational analysis of the scaled counts occurring at an average rate of ten per minute indicated a scaling factor of 22 to 1.
1960 A. E. Rogers & T. W. Connolly Analog Computation in Engin. Design x. 261 The following scaled voltage equivalents are suitable for representing the variables of the problem; ..2x̄, .20x, 200x, 10h, 10t.
1976 P. B. Attewell & I. W. Farmer Princ. Engin. Geol. vii. 525 (caption) Scaled distance attenuation relationships for blasting in a rock.
b. scaled-up: that has been increased proportionately in amount or size in all its parts. Similarly scaled-down.
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1944 P. H. Wilkinson Aircraft Engines of World 38 The 12-cylinder 1,300 h.p. Jumo 211-J is a scaled-up version of the Jumo 210.
1947 A. E. Slater in A. C. Douglas Gliding & Advanced Soaring i. 12 The earliest recorded attempts to fly, as well as the legendary ones, usually began with an attempt to reproduce a scaled-up bird's wing, often to the extent of putting feathers on it, in the belief that such a structure was inherently able to keep itself up, once it got well aloft.
1953 Trans. Soc. Instrument Technol. 5 126/2 The pilot unit is not usually constructed unless the manufacturer is satisfied that he will eventually proceed to the erection of a full-scale plant. It is a scaled-down version of such a plant.
1963 A. Bird & F. Hutton-Stott Veteran Motor Car Pocketbk. 49 B.S.A. cars..were virtually scaled-down Daimlers.
1973 Lebende Sprachen 18 7/2 Go-ahead for a scaled-up version of the engine giving a 30 percent increase in original thrust.
1977 Time (Atlantic ed.) 19 Sept. 43/1 Anyone with a driver's license and a few dollars can safely savor some of the adrenaline-pumping, gut-clutching fever of Grand Prix racing—on a minitrack, in a scaled-down Formula I speedster.
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