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Meanings of Scales:

noun

Each of the small, thin horny or bony plates protecting the skin of fish and reptiles, typically overlapping one another.

Usage examples:

Use your hands to spread the potato slices out so that they overlap like unruly fish scales, but ar…

verb

Remove scale or scales from.

Usage examples:

He scales the fish and removes the innards

Meanings of Scalier:

adjective

Covered in scales.

Usage examples:

Scaly reptiles

Meanings of Scaliest:

adjective

Covered in scales.

Usage examples:

Scaly reptiles

Meanings of Scaliness:

noun

The quality that skin has when there are small, hard, dry areas where small pieces may fall off

Usage examples:

The cream makes skin supple and avoids dryness and scaliness of skin.

Meanings of Scaling:

noun

The removal of the scales from something.

Usage examples:

Fresh fish processing is highly labour-intensive, mainly in the scaling

adjective

(especially of skin or paint) tending to crack and come away in thin pieces.

Usage examples:

Do not paint over loose or scaling paint

verb

Remove scale or scales from.

Usage examples:

He scales the fish and removes the innards

Meanings of Scaling-down:

phrasal verb

To reduce the size, amount, or importance of something

Usage examples:

We will probably scale production down a little with the government spending cuts.

Meanings of Scaling-up:

phrasal verb

To increase something in size, amount, or production

Usage examples:

This research on seaweed could be scaled up at low cost.

Meanings of Scallion:

noun

A long-necked onion with a small bulb, in particular a spring onion.

Usage examples:

Unlike their larger bulb cousins, green onions, scallions and leeks should be refrigerated.

Meanings of Scalloping:

verb

Ornament (an edge or material) with scallops.

Usage examples:

The beaded lace overlay scalloped the neckline of the dress

noun

An edible bivalve mollusc with a ribbed fan-shaped shell. scallops swim by rapidly opening and closing the shell valves.

Usage examples:

Remove the scallops from their shells by gently scraping and prising them away with a blunt knife, …

Meanings of Scallopini:

noun

(in italian cooking) thin, boneless slices of meat, typically veal, sautéed or fried.

Meanings of Scallywag:

noun

A person, typically a child, who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal.

Usage examples:

That scallywag of a son of yours

Meanings of Scaloppine:

plural noun

(in italian cooking) thin, boneless slices of meat, typically veal, sautéed or fried.

Usage examples:

But it's mostly veal scallopini or veal marsala; caesar salad, clams oreganata.

noun

An italian dish consisting of thin pieces of meat, typically veal (= meat from a young cow), cooked in a thick sauce

Usage examples:

She asked the chef if he could make veal scaloppine for her., the scaloppini were cooked to perfect…

Meanings of Scalped:

verb

Take the scalp of (an enemy) as a battle trophy.

Usage examples:

None of the soldiers were scalped

noun

The skin covering the head, excluding the face.

Usage examples:

Hair tonics will improve the condition of your hair and scalp

Meanings of Scalpel:

noun

A knife with a small, sharp, sometimes detachable blade, as used by a surgeon.

Usage examples:

Scissors, saws, knives, scalpels, hemostats, etc. - such tools are becoming too expensive to throw …

Meanings of Scalpels:

noun

A knife with a small, sharp, sometimes detachable blade, as used by a surgeon.

Usage examples:

Scissors, saws, knives, scalpels, hemostats, etc. - such tools are becoming too expensive to throw …

Meanings of Scalper:

noun

A person who resells shares or tickets at a large or quick profit.

Usage examples:

I know that most people would give their right arm - and i think some of them must at the prices as…

Meanings of Scalpers:

noun

A person who resells shares or tickets at a large or quick profit.

Usage examples:

I know that most people would give their right arm - and i think some of them must at the prices as…

Meanings of Scalplock:

noun

A long lock of hair left on a shaved head, associated with some north american indian peoples.

Meanings of Scam:

noun

A dishonest scheme; a fraud.

Usage examples:

An insurance scam

verb

Swindle.

Usage examples:

A guy that scams old pensioners out of their savings

Meanings of Scammonies:

noun

A plant of the convolvulus family, the dried roots of which yield a strong purgative.

Usage examples:

For instance, the knowledge of the causal power of scammony to purge red bile arises only after we …

Meanings of Scamp:

noun

A person, especially a child, who is mischievous in a likeable or amusing way.

Usage examples:

Some little scamp stuffed tissue paper in between the hammer and the bell

verb

Do (something) in a perfunctory or inadequate way.

Usage examples:

She had scamped her work

Meanings of Scamped:

verb

Do (something) in a perfunctory or inadequate way.

Usage examples:

She had scamped her work

noun

A person, especially a child, who is mischievous in a likeable or amusing way.

Usage examples:

Some little scamp stuffed tissue paper in between the hammer and the bell

Meanings of Scamperer:

verb

(especially of a small animal or child) run with quick light steps, especially through fear or excitement.

Usage examples:

He scampered in like an overgrown puppy

noun

An act of scampering.

Usage examples:

He heard the squeak and scamper of rats

Meanings of Scampering:

verb

(especially of a small animal or child) run with quick light steps, especially through fear or excitement.

Usage examples:

He scampered in like an overgrown puppy

noun

An act of scampering.

Usage examples:

He heard the squeak and scamper of rats

Meanings of Scampi:

noun

Norway lobsters when prepared or cooked.

Usage examples:

Scampi and chips