Phrase Hound found 81 phrases and 32 compound words that contain scales. The most common are listed below. Open scales in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 81
- time scalesplural of time scale: A series of events used as a rough measure of duration.
- bathroom scalesFlat floor-mounted scales (usually stored in the bathroom) used to measure one's own weight.
- tip the scalesTo turn to one side of a balanced situation.
- scales of justice
- Newton-with-ScalesA village in Newton-with-Clifton parish, Fylde district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4430).
- fish scalesplural of fish scale: The scale of a fish.
- minor scalesplural of minor scale: Any diatonic scale whose first, third, and fifth scale degrees form a minor triad.
- musical scalesplural of musical scale: A set of musical notes, typically ordered in pitch.
- sliding scalesplural of sliding scale: A pricing scheme for a product or service where a price range is set and the customer is charged based on where their financial resources fall within the range.
- weighing scalesSynonym of scales (“device for measuring weight”).
- beam and scalesA balance; a pair of scales for weighing.
- beams and scalesplural of beam and scales: A balance; a pair of scales for weighing.
- chromatic scalesplural of chromatic scale: A scale including all intervals of a particular tuning within an octave.
- ordinal scalesplural of ordinal scale: A scale whose values can be compared; formally, a scale whose set of values is totally ordered.
- harmonic minor scalesplural of harmonic minor scale: a type of minor scale with the 3rd and 6th notes lowered by one semitone, with the interval pattern
- tipping the scalespresent participle and gerund of tip the scales
- diatonic scalesplural of diatonic scale: A seven-note musical scale consisting of five tones and two diatonic semitones, formed by stacking six perfect fifths.
- Likert scalesplural of Likert scale: A symmetric psychometric scale used in questionnaires, allowing respondents to specify their level of agreement or disagreement.
- pentatonic scalesplural of pentatonic scale: A scale having five notes per octave.
- scales fall from someone's eyesSomeone is suddenly able to see a situation clearly.
- Arabic scalesplural of Arabic scale: double harmonic scale, a scale with two augmented seconds
- blue scalesplural of blue scale: A blues scale.
- blues scalesplural of blues scale: A minor hexatonic scale originating in the American musical genre blues, consisting of tonic, minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, fifth, and minor seventh, in which notes, particularly the minor third, fourth …
- check scalesplural of check scale: A scale used in a filling operation to indicate the proper filling level has been reached.
- cotton scalesplural of cotton scale: A species of scale insect (Pulvinaria innumerabilis), which does great damage to cotton plants.
Compound words 32
- timescalesplural of timescale: A series of events used as a rough measure of duration.
- subscalesplural of subscale: A subdivision of a scale.
- Clinkscalesplural of Clinkscale: A surname from Scots.
- eigenscalesplural of eigenscale: The scale of an eigenvalue
- autoscalesthird-person singular simple present indicative of autoscale: To scale automatically.
- bigscalesplural of bigscale: A fish, the ridgehead.
- blitzscalesthird-person singular simple present indicative of blitzscale: To grow extremely rapidly as a new company.
- downscalesthird-person singular simple present indicative of downscale: Being downmarket, of a lower quality.
- fishscalesplural of fishscale: The scale of a fish.
- grayscalesplural of grayscale: A printed strip of graduated tones used to check exposure and development times.