scale

verb

She carefully scaled the fish before cooking it.

意味（1）

(transitive) To remove the scales of.

Please scale that fish for dinner.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.

The dry weather is making my skin scale.

意味（3）

(transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.

to scale the inside of a boiler

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

(intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.

Some sandstone scales by exposure.

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

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

cannons […]caused to be scaled and loaded