1. Balance utilisée pour mesurer la masse d'une personne.
2. Le pèse-personne est un type de balance destiné à indiquer la masse d'une personne debout, immobile sur un plateau. Les pèse-personne modernes sont en réalité des dynamomètres : ils mesurent le poids d'une personne qu'ils affichent en unité de masse (kilogramme, stones ou livres...) : cette approximation est suffisante dans la plupart des cas, étant donné que la gravité ne varie pas de plus de 0,5 % sur la surface terrestre. Pour la pesée des nourrissons, les pèse-bébé sont adaptés à des masses plus petites et permettent une mesure en position couchée.
3. [noun] (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
4. [noun] An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement.
5. [noun] Size; scope.
6. [noun] The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
7. [noun] A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced
8. [noun] A means of assigning a magnitude.
9. [noun] (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
10. [noun] A mathematical base for a numeral system.
11. [noun] Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
12. [verb] (transitive) 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.
13. [verb] (transitive) To climb to the top of.
14. [verb] (intransitive) (computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
15. [verb] (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
16. [noun] 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.
17. [noun] A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
18. [noun] A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
19. [noun] A pine nut of a pinecone.
20. [noun] The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
21. [noun] Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
22. [noun] Limescale
23. [noun] A scale insect
24. [noun] The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
25. [verb] (transitive) To remove the scales of.
26. [verb] (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
27. [verb] (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
28. [verb] (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
29. [verb] (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
30. [verb] (UK) (Scotland) (dialect) To scatter; to spread.
31. [verb] (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
32. [noun] A device to measure mass or weight.
33. [noun] Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
34. [noun] An ordered reference standard; 'judging on a scale of 1 to 10'.
35. [noun] Relative magnitude; 'they entertained on a grand scale'.
36. [noun] The ratio between the size of something and a representation of it; 'the scale of the map'; 'the scale of the model'.
37. [noun] A specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin.
38. [noun] A thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin.
39. [noun] (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave).
40. [noun] A measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass.
41. [noun] An indicator having a graduated sequence of marks.
42. [noun] A metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners).
43. [noun] A flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals.
44. [verb] Measure by or as if by a scale; 'This bike scales only 25 pounds'.
45. [verb] Pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard.
46. [verb] Take by attacking with scaling ladders; 'The troops scaled the walls of the fort'.
47. [verb] Reach the highest point of; 'We scaled the Mont Blanc'.
48. [verb] Climb up by means of a ladder.
49. [verb] Remove the scales from; 'scale fish'.
50. [verb] Measure with or as if with scales; 'scale the gold'.
51. [verb] Size or measure according to a scale; 'This model must be scaled down'.
