Scale
Part of speech: verb
Definition: 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. To climb. (computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors. To remove the scales of. To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement. Size; scope. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced A means of assigning a magnitude. A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies. 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. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis. A pine nut of a pinecone. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail). Limescale A device to measure mass or weight. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance.
Example sentence: Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.
Plate
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.To perform cunnilingus.To score a run.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A dish from which food is served or eaten.The contents of such a dish.A course at a meal.A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.A vehicle license plateA weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.An image or copy.An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.A decorative or food service item coated with silver.A foot, from "plates of meat".Home plate.A tectonic plate.Plate armour.The type of scales covering some kinds of reptile.An electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank
Example sentence: Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.