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Meaning of "the Scales" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THE SCALES

the Scales play
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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THE SCALES

the Saar
the sack
the Saint Leger
the Salish
the same
the same old story
the sands are running out
the Santa Maria
the scheduled territories
the Schools
the score
the Scorpion
the Scots Greys
the Scottish
the screen
the scrub
the sea
the Second International
the secondary
the seelie

WORDS THAT END LIKE THE SCALES

after-sales
baby-scales
bathroom scales
Dales
direct sales
home sales
kitchen scales
Manizales
New South Wales
platform scales
Prince of Wales
sales
Scales
South Wales
tales
telesales
Thales
tip the scales
Wales
weighing scales

Synonyms and antonyms of the Scales in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «the Scales» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THE SCALES

Find out the translation of the Scales to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of the Scales from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «the Scales» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

天秤
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

las Escalas
570 millions of speakers

English

the Scales
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लीब्रा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

في الميزان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

весы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Escalas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আইশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

les échelles
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Timbangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

die Skalen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スケールズ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

저울
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ing Timbangan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

các vảy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செதில்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आकर्षित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ölçekler
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Bilancia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

na Skale
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ваги
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Balanta
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οι κλίμακες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

die skubbe
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skalorna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

de Scales
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of the Scales

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE SCALES»

The term «the Scales» is quite widely used and occupies the 34.323 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THE SCALES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about the Scales

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE SCALES»

Discover the use of the Scales in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the Scales and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Order of the Scales: The Memory of Flames
As various factions fight for control of the Adamantine Palace, those very dragons theaten a fiery apocalypse for all humankind.
Stephen Deas, 2012
2
The Everything Guitar Scales Book with CD: Over 700 Scale ...
The more readers know about scales, the more interesting their melodies become. This book features: thousands of scale shapes; scales for every style of music; and, the basic theory behind the scales and tips on how to use them.
Marc Schonbrun, 2009
3
Balancing the Scales: Rape, Law Reform, and Australian Culture
This book examines how effective these reforms have been in light of the fact that such changes challenge the "traditional" social norms of the legal system: male dominance, acceptability of male violence, and women's responsibility for ...
Patricia Weiser Easteal, 1998
4
Balancing the Scales: An Examination of the Manipulation and ...
Balancing the Scales, a book of essays by faculty members of Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, is an exploration of the manipulation and transformation of symbolic concepts of women.
Marie A. Conn, Therese McGuire, 2003
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Multiscale Methods: Bridging the Scales in Science and ...
This volume is a valuable reference book for scientists, engineers and graduate students practicing in traditional engineering and science disciplines as well as in emerging fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, microelectronics and ...
Jacob Fish, 2009
6
Tipping the scales of justice: fighting weight-based ...
Tipping the Scales of Justice presents actual cases and the stories behind the legal arguments, showing for the first time the varied and surprising ways that fat has become a courtroom topic.The only national legal specialist on weight ...
Sondra Solovay, 2000
7
Mao Tse-Tung in the Scales of History: A Preliminary ...
Eleven scholars renowned for their penetrating analysis of Mao during his life, here make their assessments of his career and influence, after his death.
Dick Wilson, 1977
8
Banjo Scales in Tab
This book covers all of the major scales in depth as applied to the 5-string banjo, answering potential questions concerning the use of major scales for any level of player, beginning through advanced.
Janet Davis, 2011
9
Handbook of Marketing Scales: Multi-Item Measures for ...
A total of 192 multi-item scales, each presented in a consistent format, on topics such as individual behaviour, consumer psychology, values and attitudes are provided in this 2nd edition. A comprehensive index is included.
William O. Bearden, Richard G. Netemeyer, 1999
10
Garfield Tips the Scales: His 8th Book
Collection of previously published comic strips.
Jim Davis, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE SCALES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term the Scales is used in the context of the following news items.
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Body armour based on FISH scales developed by MIT
The outer layers of the scales are hard so the piranha's fish cannot penetrate while each scale is overlapping, producing a corrugated structure that helps share ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
2
Scientists at MIT are designing bulletproof armor modeled on fish …
Their inspiration was the scales that cover most fish, which range in size depending on what part of the fish they cover. The armor could be more rigid at vital ... «Quartz, Apr 15»
3
Are the scales broken? 12lb baby Zack weighed twice by stunned …
“The midwife took him off the scales, re-set them and tried again, but they still showed 12lb – I was in disbelief,” his mother Rhian James told Wales Online. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 15»
4
Twins grow Britain's heaviest vegetable with a pumpkin that tips the
'When his went on the scales we though it was huge and there couldn't be much in it. 'But it's brilliant to take another step closer to the world record. Mark is ... «Daily Mail, Oct 14»
5
Butterfly Shifts From Shabby To Chic With A Tweak Of The Scales
Explore the soft, smooth-looking surface of a butterfly wing through an electron microscope and you'll see it's actually covered in rugged, textured scales that ... «NPR, Aug 14»
6
Taste For Rare, Wild Pangolin Is Driving The Mammal To Extinction
Traditional Chinese medicine holds that the scales of a pangolin, a small ant-eating mammal, are "cool" and "salty." Eating those scales, the TCM thinking goes, ... «NPR, Aug 14»
7
Cosmic Balance: Origin of the Constellation Libra, the Scales
For example, the ringed wonder of the solar system, the planet Saturn is currently located amidst the stars of Libra, the Scales. And of all of the zodiacal ... «Space.com, Jun 14»
8
Fish that can survive piranha bites inspire new types of body armour
Yet the scales are also hard enough to cause the teeth of the piranha to fracture, meaning Arapaima rarely fall prey to the veracious Amazon predators. «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 13»
9
Libra Constellation : Facts About the Scales
Libra is Latin for weighing scales, making it the only constellation of the Zodiac representing an inanimate object. At 538 square degrees, Libra ranks 29th ... «Space.com, Jun 13»
10
Saved by a pair of scissors left on the scales: The premature baby …
But when they put her on the scales she weighed 1lb, the minimum weight for a ... doctors discovered a pair of scissors had been accidentally left on the scales ... «Daily Mail, Dec 12»

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